While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns

America's Great Newspapers Have Staffs That Range From 50 Percent To 70 Percent Of What They Were Just A Few Years Ago.

Warren Buffett Pays Taxes On A Smaller Percentage Of His Billions In Income Than His Cleaning Lady.

Mistakes, After All, Are Endemic To Foreign And Military Policy Given The Unpredictability Of Events And The Difficulty Of Securing Reliable Information In A Place Like Iraq.

If Bloggers Are To Improve Our Public Discourse - Helping Busy And Usually Uninformed People Make Sense Of The World - It Is Necessary To Use Some Sort Of Standard With Which To Judge Their Reliability. Perhaps The Answer (strictly Advisory) Is A Body Of Their Peers. Perhaps Not.

Certainly There Are Worse Sins Than Doing Everything Possible To Make Your Presidency Matter.