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With Joe Scarborough leading the charge, today's Morning Joe mounted a furious attack against yesterday's Wall Street Journal article, "Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping." The article really was nothing much more than a recapitulation of what is obvious to anyone who has observed Biden in recent times. Although he has his relatively cogent moments—notably during this year's State of the Union—Biden suffers "senior moments" with such regularity that the Free Beacon has been cataloging them every week -- now at Week 96 and counting. Joe Scarborough, soccer fan that he is, committed an horrendous own goal in...

I imagine there are many conservatives out there, believers in free markets, who know in their gut that the stimulus plan is a mistake. Who well understand there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But perhaps it has not always been easy to refute facile arguments in favor of the plan. It is now. The Wall Street Journal has served up three succinct paragraphs that pulverize the essence of the Obama plan. They serve as a handy primer, or provide the ammo, if you prefer a martial metaphor, for defeating the arguments most commonly made on behalf of the...

With the economy in shambles and the possibility of war with Iraq looming ever larger, there is certainly no shortage of material out there for Americans who enjoy debating the major political issues of the day. But don't limit yourself to a rousing debate with your political antithesis across the holiday table. The Web is making it easier than ever to have an argument on virtually any topic, often in real time. Savvy Web users can read news and analysis by partisans on both sides of an issue, enter into debates on freewheeling newsgroups hosted by some of the nation's...