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Spare me the true believers. I don’t mean the people who support Barack Obama for president. I support Barack Obama for president. I mean the people who worship him to the point that anyone who says anything raising questions about the inevitability of his rise to sainthood, much less the perfection of him and his wife and his campaign, is deserving of damnation. I wrote a column last week about how the Obama campaign needed to guard against the arrogance that many people tell me they have detected in dealing with them. I didn’t condemn the candidate. I didn’t say...

LOS ANGELES — It’s front page news in the New York Times. But what’s the news? There isn’t any, of course. They’re married. They work hard to see each other. He tries not to upstage her. Sometimes, he wishes she had more time to spend with him. This is news? What makes it news, supposedly, is that unnamed Democrats are said to be worried about it. Translation: is he still messing around? And does anyone care? Do you? Bill Clinton isn’t running for anything. Hillary is. No one is even asking about her private life. So does it still make...

My fans are angry with me. I'm supposed to be fair and balanced. I'm a Bush critic, not a Bush Hater. I'm the one who always smiles and laughs. So why am I so tough on the Man? To say that I've been getting a lot of mail lately is an understatement. Most of it makes certain points that are, of course, valid. Yes, I know: -- that Bill Clinton didn't build the levees to withstand more than a Category 3 storm, either; -- that both the governor and the mayor are Democrats; -- that they were responsible for ordering...