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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. My last confession was several months ago. My greatest sin is that I find myself in agreement with two editors of the liberal Washington Post. Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert Kaiser have written a book called The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril. It was written before September 11th and some critics of the book claim that the media redeemed itself in the aftermath of the attack. While the media did a credible job in that period, it doesn't nullify the major points that Downie and Kaiser have made. I came...

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the...

Robert G. Kaiser: Greetings to all. I hope we can use today's chat to talk about the war and elections in Iraq, and the transformed political situation in Washington, particularly in Congress. In the last hour President Bush gave the fourth in a series of speeches on Iraq, this one at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars here in Washington. It was a summation of the other speeches in this series; I saw nothing really new in it, but it struck me as a well-constructed speech, perhaps the best statement yet of the administration's current position We've got lots of...