Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment,

It's obvious that the local and state authorities were overwhelmed... and that the federal government needed to step in and my goodness, if we're going to ever deal with a terrorist attack which we've apparently been readying ourselves for, for the last four years and we can't even get hurricane relief right, it doesn't add confidence...