The New Republic

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 (S.V. Dáte has covered Florida politics for a dozen years, and today, aside from writing this piece on the budding Jeb Bush/Charlie Crist rivalry, he will be filing occasional dispatches from the Sunshine State. Here's the first.)   READ MORE >>

In today's Washington Post, Jeb Bush declined to endorse a specific Republican candidate, saying he admires all of them for different reasons.  He genuflected, as one might expect, to their courage, character, and commitment, but also "praised Romney's 'intellectual curiosity,' saying 'he's incredibly smart and asks the questions necessary.'" READ MORE >>

I know he probably won't run in 2008, and certainly his last name is problematic given his brother's latest poll numbers, but wouldn't Jeb Bush be really strong in a Republican presidential primary? READ MORE >>

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Ever since the staggering pictures of naked Iraqi men being brutalized by young men and women in American uniform at Abu Ghraib first surfaced last April, only to be followed by the stunning news of torture and murder of prisoners not only in Iraqi detention camps but also in Afghanistan and Guantanamo, and now, most recently, the astonishing reports of American operatives abducting suspected foreign terrorists and sending them to our "allies" in Syria and Egypt to torture them on our behalf--with its corny, yet horrifying Orwellian name, "extraordinary rendition"--I repeatedly find myself READ MORE >>

It's not often that a U.S. political campaign is launched on foreign soil. Then again, it's not often that a U.S. political campaign revolves around a major motion picture. So, when Michael Moore went to France in late May for the world premiere of his movie Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Cannes Film Festival, he treated the occasion like a political convention. READ MORE >>