Rabe Ramblings

Will be in D.C. on business again on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, so I'll probably be scarce until Wednesday. I had hoped to fly out on...

Discoshaman is doing some riveting blogging from the front lines of the Ukrainian election crisis. The New York Daily News says Dan Rat...

I have a burned hamburger patty that looks a little bit like Gene Shalit. Do you think it might be worth anything?

It took a while, but the forged memos fiasco has finally cost Dan Rather his anchor chair at CBS. Of course, they waited a respectable i...

The reaction in Chile to the scuffle involving President Bush and his Secret Service detail has been entirely predictable. Evidently the ...

As a kid, I remember being extraordinarily moved by the image of Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy turning to face John Hinkley's r...

How much do thy Rams sucketh? Let me count the ways .

The always-enterprising Robert Novak has the behind-the-scenes scoop on Arlen Specter's desperate scramble for the Senate Judiciary Com...

The free market works. It works for just about everything. And no matter how often you say it, there are still people--lots of people--who...

This is the most purely weird analysis of the evangelical impact on the election yet. (Hat tip to Michael Spencer at the BHT .) Just li...

CBS has fired a producer who interrupted the last five minutes of the network feed of "CSI: NY" to bring the world news of the d...

A friend of mine was getting into the hot tub at his South Florida apartment complex Saturday night when an old guy already in the tub began...

Great line today from Brian at Terrible Swift Word : Fox News is reporting that Yasser Arafat is dead ... CNN has it still too close to call...

I suspect many of my conservative compadres will be up in arms over Alberto Gonzales' fast appointment as Attorney General in the wake o...

Shannen W. Coffin, a former Justice Department employee, has her own excellent tribute to John Ashcroft's record at NRO. Among the c...

One time in the middle of the night, my wife rolled over, woke me up, and asked "Is Abe Vigoda still alive?"

To no one's surprise, John Ashcroft has announced his resignation as attorney general of the United States. There has not been, in my...

The more I read Hugh Hewitt's blog , the more I begin to sympathize with the annoyance of my friends to the right (yes, there really are...

If I may take a moment to tout my own foresightedness, here is something I wrote in a post last April, shortly after Arlen Specter narrowly...

NRO's Jonah Goldberg has the line of the day, comparing New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman : "As we all k...