The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth..

The President doesn't just appoint the Secretary of State, he appoints the Secretary of State, and then the Congress votes. And if the Congress appro….

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker..

We are Republicans. How I see our mission is we always want to be transparent with readers about what we think, about our opinions. But, fundamentall….

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging..

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the f….

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about t….

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to eve….

When Hillary's getting knocked around by the folks on the Hill is Bill going to go Larry King to knock her enemies around? Will he be going off to fo….

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable..

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit..

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses wi….

This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours - watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political opera….

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them..

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office..

Officials and journalists live in parallel but separate realities; they see and talk to each other, may have a meal and gossip together, but their wo….

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to….

The Federalist Society is this conservative legal organization. And I think, for the Bush administration, being a member of the Federalist Society me….

I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for m….

The President appoints the U.S. Attorneys. They're political in a certain respect. But the Department of Justice - the power that they hold is so gre….