Filed under: Breaking News, Featured Stories

Politics Daily: It is always great fun to be pompous and drop in a literary or historic quote to reinforce an argument. So let's deal with the controversy over Sonia Sotomayor's "empathy" by quoting Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote, "The law must be tempered by reason." ... Read more

Filed under: Barack Obama, Featured Stories, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, National Security

Politics Daily: A friend of mine in the field of national security receives periodic visits from an acquaintance of his who happens to work for the government of Israel. This foreign gentleman quietly and periodically makes the rounds in Washington, trying to gauge ... Read more

Filed under: Featured Stories, Iraq, Foreign Policy

Politics Daily: FT. BENNING, Ga. -- More than 23,000 American men are volunteering for combat as U.S. Army infantrymen this year and are likely to be fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan within months. It's a military youth bulge that defies critics who say Americans ... Read more

Filed under: Featured Stories, Religion, Gay Rights

Politics Daily: The nation's capital is suddenly center court in America's loud argument over gay marriage. Nothing new about that, except that this time the battle is being hashed out in the streets, churches and living rooms in working-class wards of the city. ... Read more