Mar 2, 2008 – On one plane sat Walter Cronkite, Eric Severeid, and a host of news anchors and bureau chiefs – the main stream media of the day – … They had first met in 1957, when Nixon was Vice-President and as Buckley’s fledgling periodical, National Review, was developing cultural … and political traction.…

Mar 1, 2008 – I had been bit by the political bug. … My dad answered: “National Review.” … I found it—National Review. I couldn’t put it down. There was nothing else like it—nothing.…

Mar 20, 2008 – In his hour of political need, Barack Obama went to his base -- the media. … Wright never aired his poisonous worldview except in a couple of videotaped sermons acquired by ABC News. … At one moment, Obama said we needed a searching national dialogue about race; at another, he suggested we needed to get beyond all…

Mar 20, 2008 – It's never been a great idea to rely on the assessments of French politicians, but the daily news coming out of the U.S. -- in terms … Iran, contrary to headlines drawn from the recent National Intelligence Estimate, is likely still betting the U.S. can't prevent it … Barack Obama, D-Ill., promised a new politics of racial healing and political honesty.…

Mar 19, 2008 – Bopp, Gary Bauer, Tony Perkins, Tom Minnery, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and the kids running the National … Behind the relentless waves of propaganda from the "conservative" political elites, the actual record of Willard Mitt Romney's record … Like his friends over at the National Review, Fox News and other such lofty locations in the conservative ghetto, Mr.…

Mar 19, 2008 – Given that Democrats often have complained about voting fraud during national elections, the Republican Study Committee (RSC), … The Casablanca Hotel in New York City's Times Square is offering "political rehab" for election-weary Washingtonians venturing north … channels and, if desired, all channels that offer daily news programming."…

Mar 19, 2008 – The cable news journalists who are playing the tapes of those sermons were not there. … especially those who were never part of the black ghetto culture but who feel a need to identify with it for either personal, political … But President of the United States, in a time of national danger, under a looming threat of nuclear terrorism? No.…

Mar 18, 2008 – I genuinely was honored this past week to read in global news reports how our troops in the Middle East recently … Bowen, 38, a Maryland Army National Guard soldier, who died just this past Friday in a Texas military hospital -- two months after … I also would extend that neutrality challenge to news agencies and pundits alike.…

Mar 18, 2008 – That's the good news. The bad news is that Barack Obama has been leading as much of a double life as Eliot Spitzer. … Fox News Channel has played tapes of various sermons of Jeremiah Wright, and says that it has tapes with hours of more of the same. … Senator Barack Obama's political success thus far has been a blow for equality. But equality has its down side.…

Mar 17, 2008 – I wrote about this recently, but the issue is worth revisiting because it is growing in political intensity and will be one of the … I wish I could say the national news media is quick to correct mistruths, untruths and half-truths being spread about trade. … three years Ohio manufacturers actually sold more goods to Canada and Mexico ... than it took in," John Engler, president of the National…

Mar 13, 2008 – Heller could become one of the most important cases in American history, with profound political and policy implications.   … The short-term political impact of Heller might turn the 2008 presidential election. … Either way, gun rights could dominate the news.  …

Mar 12, 2008 – For starters, she suggests switching off the cable TV news channel before political mouthpieces such as Chris Matthews, Bill O'Reilly … The CIA director eventually tackled those national security issues, but not before he grabbed his Steelers helmet off of his bookcase…

Mar 11, 2008 – Other cubicle conversations concur how wimpy Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is to kowtow to the New York senator's … So what's wrong with displays of political affiliation in the workplace? … its members — a good many of them lawyers — a three-minute "Politics at Work" phone message to provide guidance on appropriate political…

Mar 30, 2008 – If a salacious political firestorm is the media equivalent of Christmas morning, the events of the past few weeks have packed American … Poll after poll shows Americans trust McCain far more than his opponents on issues of war and national security. … His standing in national polls will ebb and flow.…

Mar 30, 2008 – For the mind of pundits and editors and other decision-makers in the news industry, that’s what makes a candidate “serious.” … But the lack of them in other national offices has stultified our political culture.…

Mar 26, 2008 – Especially since the National Political Press Corps has been beating the you-know-what out of Barack H. (!) … John McCain having closed out the GOP competition was actually bad news for him? … As the National Political Press Corps whipsaws between Clinton and Obama while Senator McCain meets with world leaders and receives…

Mar 26, 2008 – WASHINGTON -- If Republicans picked a theme song to describe the gloomy political climate they face this year, it would be "Raindrops … That's reflected in the national polls when a month ago Obama was leading McCain by six or seven points, and this month is down by … McCain by 51 percent to 41 percent in the Rasmussen poll and by 48 percent to 45 percent in the Gallup survey, but led in the Fox News…

Mar 26, 2008 – “Man Bites Dog” becomes big news, but “Man Pets Dog” will never get headlines or ratings. … Politicians naturally revel in the fact that the news business has actually become the bad news business. … Since the national mood reflects media coverage and political maneuvering more than it responds to actual conditions for real American…

Mar 25, 2008 – Last week I wrote that it would be hard to determine the political impact of either Barack Obama's pastor's comments, or Obama's subsequent … CBS News released a poll that read, "Most voters following the events regarding Senator Barack Obama and Rev. … They didn't weight the poll for age, race, gender and political affiliation.…

Mar 25, 2008 – The seventh reason is television news, the primary source of news for much of mankind. … Aside from its leftist tilt, television news reports only what it can video. … No video, no TV news. And no TV, no concern.…

Mar 24, 2008 – Over recent days, for the first time in months, she has moved significantly ahead of Barack Obama in Gallup's national polling. … The brilliant political tacticians have as much insight about what will be nine months from now as they had nine months ago about what … Sure, Wright's inflammatory sermons, and Obama's longtime association with this man, is important news.…

Mar 24, 2008 – The problem for Obama is that furor over Parson Wright has reached beyond voters normally interested in political controversies. … Over the last week, I have been repeatedly asked by non-political people about Obama's connection with Wright's tirade. … In last week's Clinton conference call with the news media, campaign senior adviser Harold Ickes questioned "whether Sen.…

Mar 23, 2008 – The pulpit is a powerful medium, even in our age of the Internet and 24/7 News. … I am conservative in my political opinions – my congregation knows that. … But when it comes to the preaching, I do not give forth a steady diet of homilies from National Review, or Townhall.com – my passion…

Mar 23, 2008 – It was lost in the cacophony of political news. Besides, why worry about the judiciary? … Roberts' report recounts accompanying a Russian judge walking among Arlington National Cemetery's white headstones, at one of which … Since the New Deal, under the Great Society expansion of the political sphere, the trend intensified. As James Q.…

Mar 22, 2008 – They felt that no political purpose was served by the prospective Republican presidential nominee going halfway around the world to … Democrats, disheartened by the bitterness of the Clinton-Obama struggle, seized on McCain's mistake as good news. … On tax policy, Luntz found that 40 percent of a national sample of swing voters are opposed to higher taxes and prefer "fewer earmarks…