I'd give the edge to Kerry as far as debating goes. If this were a debating team competition, he's the winner. He seemed more confident than Bush did, and backed up his assertions with more facts (som

So let me get this straight. Kerry is claiming that he'll be better at diplomacy than President Bush has been. In fact, as regards the Iraq war, that's the only factor where he differs from Bush in a

Ever since Bill Burkett announced that the real forged memo supplier was one Lucy Ramirez, USA Today and countless others have been searching for her. Who is this mysterious woman? Did Burkett just ma

The RNC weighs in:

Washington, DC--Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement on CBS’s admission today that memos regarding the President’s National Guard se

Here's CBS's statement on the forgeries.

Bill Burkett, in a weekend interview with CBS News Anchor and Correspondent Dan Rather, has acknowledged that he provided the now-disputed documents used in

Take a look at this from The Australian:

JOHN Kerry's campaign has warned Australians that the Howard Government's support for the US in Iraq has made them a bigger target for international terrori

The LA Times's Tim Rutten writes (rr):

One might have thought that [Rather's] defense reached a low point when he aired an interview with Killian's 86-year-old former secretary in which she said sh

The New York Times reports (rr) today that Bill Burkett apparently sent the forged memos to the DNC on August 20:

"I spent some time on the phone with the Kerry campaign seniors yesterday," Mr. Bur

Since Friday, at the very latest, CBS News has been a news network deranged. CBS News is practicing faith-based journalism, and I don't mean that in a good way.

There's no evidence that the forgeri

I recall writing a couple of times when people snickered at Fox News's claim of being "Fair and Balanced", and when people accused Fox News of being a right-wing plot or an arm of the Republican Party

That could end up as the defining slogan of our times. Via Medienkritik comes this Free Republic manifesto directed at the MSM:

Don't you wish you could regulate us? We know you spend your nights p

Michael Moore rubbing his hands together on the day of the big 60 Minutes revelations (via Blair):

Later today (Wed.), the Boston Globe, the A.P. and Dan Rather all present new and damning informat

Here's CBS describing their document expert:

Document and handwriting examiner Marcel Matley analyzed the documents for CBS News. He says he b

You know, you don't have to put a space between "1" and "st" and then go back and delete the space in order to not have Microsoft Word supserscript the "st". After Word superscripts for you, just hit

Islam was once a healthy thing. Within its ideological borders, whose limits were broader than its Christian competitors at the time, it flourished. Knowledge was preserved within Islam and expanded t

It's a little late, in blog time anyway, for thoughts on Kerry's midnight speech here in Ohio right after the Republican convention ended, but the best take on it in my opinion comes from Ann Althouse

The Time poll shows that Bush got his 11-point lead (not bounce- the bounce appears to be around 13 points) before Bush spoke Thursday night at the RNC. The poll was conducted Tuesday through Thursday

In the second half of a story, the AP reports on an alleged controversy regarding Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech at the RNC:

Some Austrians also questioned Schwarzenegger's reminiscence about seein

Bill Clinton is to undergo heart surgery within the next day or two. What, Reagan dies and now the Dems have to try and top that? They've got to go after every single vote, whatever it takes, apparent

I'm still a bit stunned by Zell Miller's speech from last night. That's got to go down as one of the most powerful political convention speeches of all time. It's virtually 100% sound-bite, by which I