Tue, 19 May 2009 19:44:30 +0000 – By Lanny DavisAttorney/Former White House Special Counsel I have written many times in this space that I oppose any criminal prosecution of prior-administration officials on torture or other issues relating to the Iraq War and the war on terrorism, especially those CIA interrogators …

Overseas, almost everybody I have ever met wants to be American, or at least in America. I realize that sounds chauvinistic, perhaps arrogant, but it is true – and for myriad reasons, ranging from traditions to scenery, roots to realities. From sea to shining sea, ours is a blessed nation …

Even on Capitol Hill, there is a God. Last week, the nation’s religious leaders stood up to ask their elected officials to look past politics and see that children — not theoretical abstractions but real, young individuals — are suffering because of inaction by Congress. The children who have come …

Democrats have a strategy for holding the U.S. Senate this year: Limit their losses to five seats or fewer, and then pick off Sen. Mitch McConnell, perhaps even swipe the GOP’s open seat in Georgia. It won’t be easy. Three Republican nominees—Montana Rep. Steve Daines, former South Dakota Gov. Mike …

Monica Lewinsky has returned, and it’s a good thing. She’s a smart, thoughtful woman who deserves to be able to take her life back from those who prefer she stay silent, and stay away. I’m sure there’s nothing more irritating to Hillary Clinton than those you use and abandon who …

A Baptist pastor in Tennessee says he now regrets that his church distributed an anti-Catholic leaflet that a local Catholic priest decried as “hate material.” Pastor Jonathan Hatcher, who leads Conner Heights Baptist Church in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., has removed the inflammatory leaflet, “The Death Cookie,” from his congregation. He …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Capitol Hell One of the Democratic lawmakers at the center of the health care fight on Capitol Hill says his life has been a living hell since coming out against the bill unless it includes strict language on abortion funding. The Hill …

What a tangled Web Wikipedia users can weave. Critics noted over the weekend that President Obama’s page on the free online encyclopedia had been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, and to allow only a brief citation of his connection to …

It’s often said that the best way to learn a new language is to be in a relationship with someone who speaks it. Given how time consuming it would be to find bilingual companions for all the travelers on your gift list, you’ll likely want to look into less complicated …

Are you one of the tens of thousands of people who don’t want government-run health care and showed up at a town hall or a rally to let it be known? Here’s The One Thing: If that’s you then you are part of the right-wing, extremist, angry mob and your …