Let’s hope that Tom Hanks’ latest project, The Pacific, will be more true to history than his recent comments blaming America for the brutality seen in the WWII campaign against Japan.  more

Reading Mitt Romney’s No Apology it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that Obama and Romney have more in common with each other on the issue of healthcare reform than either does with his party’s more fervent supporters.  more

In No Apology, Romney presents ultra-technocratic solutions for entitlement reform, arguing in favor of a phased in approach to personal retirement accounts and turning authority for Medicaid over to the states.  more

When No Apology, turns to economic policy — for the first time in the book — the reader can hear Mitt Romney’s voice as he speaks out in favor of TARP and for government investment in basic research.  more

UPDATED: Despite only entering the race in January, Tom Campbell’s campaign has already raised $1 million in his bid to win the GOP senatorial primary in California. But while he has caught up with his opponents, his fundraising has dropped significantly since his opponents began criticizing his record on Israel.  more

Lawyers are not being courageous when they take on ‘unpopular clients’ like the Guantanamo prisoners. Rather, they are acting boldly in their own self-interest by extending their influence ever further.  more

Andrew Sullivan has some cool maps on his site today showing the contraction of Palestinian land from 1946 through 2010.  more

Michael Grimm is a GOP candidate in New York’s 13th congressional district. In an interview with FrumForum, Grimm — a former Marine Corps combat veteran and Special Agent in the FBI — emphasized his national security credentials and called on Obama to move the terror trials from NYC.  more

Earlier this week, President Obama slammed health insurance companies for their new rate increases. But as my latest column for The Week points out, Obama’s own health reforms may lead the government to eventually come to the financial rescue of the industry.  more

In the foreign policy chapters of No Apology, Romney delivers remarkably few insights on America’s two shooting wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, suggesting that his own views on foreign and defense policy may be undeveloped.  more

That sounds like it will be the Republican slogan in 2010. But the GOP may want to consider the problems with this strategy.  more

Despite Democratic claims, the Obamacare package of small entitlement cuts, deferred taxes and increased regulation will not do much to substantially dent skyrocketing healthcare costs.  more

In No Apology, Romney discusses national defense with greater depth than other issues, sounding the alarm on China’s military buildup and threats from Russia and Iran.  more

Conservatives who credit Romney with having very sophisticated economic understanding, will be surprised by the slapdash and often outright ignorant economic history propounded in No Apology.  more

Romney’s No Apology offers the reader a juicy hunk of foreign policy red meat. But there are also interesting clues that Romney’s own policy preferences diverge somewhat from those of his red meat audience.   more

Mitt Romney’s new book, No Apology, makes a very striking contrast with Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. Palin’s subject is Palin: her wrongs and grievances. Unlike Palin, Romney cares about the external world. His book is an action plan, not a memoir.  more

Last week, during oral arguments the originalist justices on the Supreme Court missed a chance to pass the responsibility to create and enforce rights from the courts back to Congress.  more

The Tories may be preparing to go into a public relations war with Britain’s senior-most police chiefs after Conservative accusations that many of the chiefs are in the Labour government’s pocket.  more

D.C. is expecting a jump in wedding-related business now that same-sex marriages are being recognized. But what effect will the new laws have on those in the wedding industry who don’t support gay marriage?  more

The left blogosphere is working the spin on the Jon Stewart – Marc Thiessen encounter last night, insisting that Stewart “destroyed” and “nailed” Thiessen. That’s not the way it looked to me.  more