Wheels are coming off the tricycle

The McCain campaign scales back media access and refuses to make Sarah Palin available for interviews. Does not seem to me to be a winning strategy. Still, at least one foreign online journal is reporting that the adultery scandal involving Todd Palin isn’t...

A retreating pitbull…with lipstick

Sarah Palin’s husband may have a “John Edwards” problem. Not disqualifying for her in a political sense, but adds another argument to the “she never should have been selected for veep” stack. Will the truth come out? The National Enquirer...

Conservativism

It’s not what it should be (obviously), but Andrew Sullivan strikes an optimistic note about its long-term revival: I’m sure conservatism will one day recover – because it is right about the main issues: government needs to be kept in its place,...

Palin’s religious beliefs

The Assemblies of God, of which Palin is a member, have 16 Fundamental Truths. If biblical literalism and fundamentalist Christianity is your thing, here’s your girl. Personally, I find it immediately disqualifying. One hates to say “never,” but if...