Via Ross Douthat’s new blog, Robert Novak is reporting that the Democrats are anticipating a pick up of 9-11 seats in next year’s House elections, based on a survey of the 50 most competitive races. Coupled with the 30 seat turnaround in 2006, this would be a remarkable change in power...

Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey offered an emotional apology today for setting “a very bad example” when his motorcade was traveling at more than 91 miles, all while not wearing a seat belt. But old habits die hard. As Gov. Corzine and his crew were leaving the hospital, the speeding continued: No...

I’ve been blogging daily now for roughly five or six years and written about virtually every topic under the sun. Yet in all that time I cannot recall a post attracting as many Google referrals as a recent one about Sen. Fred Thompson’s wife titled “Jeri Kehn for First Lady!”...

The switch to Daylight Saving Time is usually attended by all sorts of stories, anecdotes, cliches about people missing appointments, work, and that sort of thing due to their clocks being off. But ITA friend Doug Masson passes along this story of an unsuspecting innocent who was caught in the dastardly...

One of modern conservatism’s fathers, William F. Buckley, has penned an artful piece on the the GOP’s future following the Iraq war. It is my recommended reading of the day.

Most of what I know of George Tenet has come from the books I’ve read about Bush’s foreign policy, like Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack, James Risen’s State of War, and Thomas Ricks’ Fiasco, and the portrait contained therein is not flattering. One gets the impression of...

A road trip to Philadelphia this weekend provided the opportunity to see the new King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute. Eight million Americans saw the original traveling Tut exhibit in the 1970s; it was a legitimate cultural phenomenon that spawned Steve Martin’s classic King Tut routine....

ITA neighbor Joe Carter of the Evangelical Outpost recently penned a piece titled “The Global War Against Baby Girls.” In it Joe argues couples across the world, but particularly in China, are selectively aborting baby girls in favor of boys, having a dramatic effect on the boy to girl birth...

I’ve posted some pictures of my pup Izzy here (and also a site re-design).

Starpulse News Blog reports the following: An interactive Public Service Announcement featuring the graphic display of a tiara-wearing, autopsied Paris Hilton with removable innards is designed to warn teenagers of the hazards of underage drinking. [...] “Campaign to Rescue Women of Youth”...