America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.