Friday I’ll be guest-hosting the national public affairs radio show To The Point. If you’re in the L.A. area you can listen live at noon on KCRW 89.9 FM. If you’re somewhere else, you can stream it live at 12 pm PDT or download it for later podcast here. Today’s topic: Whither the Democrats?

Thanks to the ImmigrationProf Blog we can read a recent memo sent to members of the Republican National Committee by its senior advisor and Bush confidante, Matthew Dowd. Take a look and you will see a compelling set of talking points: in favor of not only heightened border security, but also supporting comprehensive immigration reform including a guest worker program [...]

For those of you following California politics, it might come as a surprise to you that the L.A. Weekly — for whom I write– has endorsed Steve Westly for Governor in next week’s Democratic primary. You might think that a stolidly liberal paper like the Weekly would have gone for Westly’s opponent, Phil Angelides, who [...]

Why doesn’t George W. Bush do something about those nattering nabobs of negativity… over there at the Pentagon? Just a year ago, Vice-President Cheney assured us that the insurgency was in its “last throes.” Last week, Bush and Blair told us that our progress in Iraq was real and significant. Yet, the just-released report on [...]