Adele M. Stan

CRAIG CONSIDERING RESIGNING. So reports the Associated Press this morning. Most amusing bit from this report comes from Sen. John Ensign, the Republican Senate campaign committee chair, who offered his take on revelations of the arrest of self-avowedly heterosexual Idaho Sen. Larry Craig in a Minneapolis men’s room for apparent invasion of an undercover police […]

VIGUERIE’S PICKS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. With Karl Rove now banished from the White House Office of Strategery, Richard Viguerie, an architect of the religious right, is stepping up to offer advice on a replacement for soon-to-be-former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. First, Viguerie advises playing clearly to the base, nominating a hard-core “conservative” (read: right-winger), and […]

TRIANGULATION, PAKISTAN-STYLE. The Associated Press is reporting that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have reached a power-sharing deal that, should their respective parties together retain a plurality of votes in the coming parliamentary elections, would allow Musharraf to hold on to his position as president and permit Bhutto to return […]

SANJAYA HAS LEFT THE BUILDING. Six years into the tenure of television’s hottest “reality” show, the wags were calling it all but cancelled. Then an asexually cute but incompetent contestant kept enough viewers from changing the channel and so, we’re told, American Idol will live to see another season. Surely Alberto Gonzales is to the […]

TRADING A LIAR FOR A DISSEMBLER? With reports of the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales barely an hour old, wags were already naming Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security, as the likely nominee for Gonzales’s replacement. For Democrats — and the American people — this should be the perfect week to shoot down that […]

THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS GETTING INTERESTING. In Pakistan, that is. There, the Supreme Court, headed by the recently restored Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has cleared the way for the immediate return to Pakistan of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whom Gen. Pervez Musharraf removed in 1999 in a bloodless coup. Musharraf had forced Sharif […]

FIRST TO GO. Were there ever any doubt about the Bush administration’s contempt for the U.S. Constitution in general, and the First Amendment in particular, two stories from the morning papers stick it right in the reader’s face — not that we’d be inclined to do anything about it. An extraordinary piece by the Washington […]

PETRAEUS TO REPORT ON SEPTEMBER 11th. Today, listening to the radio, I heard reiterated what the National Review reported yesterday after a media conference call with Republican presidential kinda hopeful Sen. John McCain: that Gen. David Petraeus will testify before the Senate about the contents of his vaunted report (which, according to whom you believe, […]

SEPARATION ANXIETY. Like my colleague Sam Boyd, I was quite entertained by yesterday’s Rove-a-thon on the Sunday talk shows. While brother Sam duly noted perhaps the most amusing iteration of Rovian grandiosity (“I’m Beowulf; I’m Grendel), I found myself most riveted by the former deputy chief of staff’s interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. For Rove, […]