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The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." Well. Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), which concocted a constitutional right, unmentioned in the document, to own slaves and held that black people have no rights that white people are bound to respect? With Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which affirmed the constitutionality of legally enforced racial segregation? With Korematsu v. United States (1944), which affirmed the wartime right to sweep American citizens...

June 13, 2008 Exclusive: McCain Should Pick Michael Steele for VP Jonathan StrongThere is a great deal of speculation over who the two nominees for President should pick as their running mates. I couldn't care less who Obama picks because whomever his choice is can be guaranteed to be a liberal in favour of higher taxes, bigger government, more regulation, and a weaker America (whether they admit it or not). Sadly for conservatives, McCain, in many ways, is Democrat-lite on a host of issues. It is McCain's unpredictability and untrustworthiness as a conservative on domestic issues that worries so many...

All successful politicians must have at least some talent for lying about what's in their hearts and convincing people that it is the truth. But Sen. John McCain has a unique genius for telling the truth from his heart and making people believe that he is lying. And these people are his supporters! They admire him as a straight talker and they forgive him for taking positions on big issues that they find repellent on the grounds that he doesn't really mean what he says. "Oh, he has to say that to get the Republican nomination," explain many Democrats with...

"Are folks aware of just how meticulously (Sen. John) McCain and his team are going about building their '08 campaign? There's probably not a GOP activist in South Carolina who hasn't been contacted at least once by someone supportive of McCain's candidacy. ... As long as he continues to poll well against Hillary, and as long as the Republicans look as if they could lose power at a moment's notice, McCain should be able to create the air of inevitability that Bush created in 2000." - Hotline editor Chuck Todd in National Journal. Officially, he is not yet running and...