Gina Cobb believes that the President is gracious and decent.
In his prepared speeches, he makes a conscious choice to speak as kindly of his rivals as is humanly possible. His graciousness is more noticeable when the vitriol from his rivals reaches its apex — or at a time when his approval rating seems to [...]

The oath the president takes when assuming the office is prescribed in the United States Constitution, Article II, Section I
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United [...]

Bob Altemeyer is releasing his book, The Authoritarians in installments on his web site, a new chapter every week. This seems like an important book.
I didn’t pay too much attention to John Dean’s book, Conservatives Without Conscience when it appeared last year, and still haven’t, but apparently Dean based in book on Altemeyer’s work on [...]

If we can’t have democracy in the US?
Charles D. Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs is complaining about the law firms that are representing, or attempting to represent Guantánamo detainees. According to the
New York Times, Mr. Stimson appeared on Federal News Radio earlier this week questioning the role of lawyers from [...]

Gerald Ford’s policy of healing and moving on, whether it was the right thing to do, or the wrong thing to do, was a failure. Rather than allowing honest conflict of opinion to flourish and consensus to form, Ford attempted to shut down debate and paper over conflict.
The debate addresses whether Ford was right to [...]

What’s laughable about the Alicia Colon piece I blogged about yesterday?
The claim that The Drudge Report is a liberal site is laughable in general. How could you know anything at all about American politics and make this claim?
Here is her supporting evidence:
The propaganda of the enemedia — an excellent descriptive term coined by [...]

In this laughable op-ed from the New York Post, the author concludes by making a big point about her name:
My name, Alicia, means truth, so here it is.
I wouldn’t go there if I were her.
Her last name is Colon.

In honor of Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation, quotations from Rumsfeld’s Rules

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
If a prospective presidential approach can’t be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn’t been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won’t [...]

This week both President Bush and Vice President Cheney have pointed fingers at the press for focusing on the bad news from Iraq. These attempts to salvage US public opinion in favor of Iraqi War and against President Bush follow on earlier effort by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to shape media coverage to [...]

Last week Andrew Sullivan was raising the issue of ex post facto claims that the speaker/writer knew Saddam did not have WMD. Examples here,here, here, and here.
The central nugget:
I’m now overwhelmed by how many people say they now opposed the war all along because they could see that the WMD issue was invalid. It’s amazing [...]