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Remember how, four years ago, John Kerry was derided as a “gigolo” because his second wife had so much money?
But if there is one characteristic of Kerry’s life that should disqualify him absolutely as a candidate for president, it is the fact that he has sought out millionaire wives to take care of him. Not [...]

First it was Jim Adkisson, the wingnut who loved Savage and Hannity and shot up a Unitarian church because he wanted to kill some “liberals and gays.” He shot up the church “because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that [...]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a hero, “a symbol of freedom and the durability of the human spirit,” as his obit in today’s Post has it. But let’s face it, readers, he was not a very good writer.
Did you ever actually try to read The Gulag Archipelago? It’s like being trapped down at the end [...]

An article in today’s Washington Post says that the Commonwealth of Virginia, traditionally a bastion of conservatism, has become a “swing state.”
Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, and President Bush carried the state twice, by nine and eight points. But the campaigns of Obama and his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, [...]