J.P., I don’t know who told you that “The rule is that when someone follows you, you should be polite and follow them back.” That’s crazy-talk. If you’re using Twitter mainly as a platform for self-promotion and are trying to…

It turns out that the story about the president reading a thank you to himself off a teleprompter, mentioned here Saturday, was misreported. Obama was joking.

This is fascinating: [Irish Prime Minister Brian] Cowen was 20 seconds into his second address when it dawned on him that he was giving word for word the speech that Obama had just read from the same teleprompter. Cowen stopped…

Note: If you haven’t read Watchmen or seen the movie, skip this post. There are spoilers, and you won’t know what I’m talking about anyway. Brian Doherty writes at Reason that Rorschach is “probably the most vivid and well-thought-out Objectivist…

Matt Welch can’t understand why liberals are defending Chas Freeman, BFF to Saudi and Chinese oligarchs. “Remember,” he asks, “when Saudi-bashing was a lefty thing?” Yes, but that was when there was a Republican in the White House. Now that…

I’ve been wandering around CPAC today, and I have to say I find a lot of it rather depressing. There’s a whole lot of talk about strategy and getting the message out (especially through Twitter and Facebook), but surprisingly little…

We didn’t see much of the soaring rhetoric that Obama is so good at tonight. Now wasn’t the time for mere inspiration. Instead, his tone was of a sort of national CEO, talking as if he could look at America’s…

Dianne Feinstein can’t keep her mouth shut about sensitive anti-terror operations in Pakistan. Geez.

Interesting analysis by Bradley Burston in Haaretz: Avigdor Lieberman, the hands-down success story of the election, has repeatedly outraged the far-right by suggesting in the past that some heavily Arab-populated East Jerusalem neighborhoods and refugee camps be ceded to an…

This economy is worse than you thought! Hat-tip: Jeff Emanuel.