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I am not normally of the view that endorsements mean much in Presidential politics. But Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama today is a real sledgehammer blow to the already staggering McCain campaign. Not just because a Powell endorsement shores up Obama's shaky foreign policy bona fides, but even more because of the content of Powell's remarks on Meet the Press. The General showed he still knows how to launch a brutal offense. Powell's remarks were an across the board indictment of the McCain campaign. He threw a subtly delivered but perfectly targeted series of chops at each of the the...

One of the ways I got to know John McCain a decade or so ago was through a mutual friend—a fellow by the name of David Ifshin. I knew David through Democratic Party politics. He was a stalwart moderate, a member of the Democratic Leadership Council and an occasional adviser to Bill Clinton. Our wives were, and are, close friends. But McCain’s relationship with David was far more interesting. Ifshin, you see, had been a vehement anti-Vietnam radical. He had even gone to Hanoi at the height at the war and given a speech denouncing the American pilots dropping bombs...

Would you like to push back against Time Magazine's Obama supporters like Joe Klein, Ana Marie Cox, and Karen Tumulty? It's actually incredibly easy, but despite how easy it is few people (other than me) want to do it. Time Magazine runs a blog called Swampland, and almost all of the posts read like something from DailyKos, and almost all of the comments do as well. But, there's something you can do about it: sign up to post comments (it's free and easy) and then when they post something that's in error, point it out. The goal is to discredit...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina got its first national park Monday. Legislation creating the Congaree National Park, elevating the swamp from its national monument status, was signed into law as part of the interior appropriations bill, U.S. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings said. "We've been working on this for years, but today, it finally became a reality," Hollings said. "South Carolina has its first national park." The swamp lies along the north bank of the Congaree River about 20 miles, southeast of Columbia. The park now can expand by 4,576 acres along the river, Hollings said.