A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.