I understand from  a glance at the newspaper wrapping the fish I bought for dinner that a general appointed by George Bush to escalate the war in Iraq is in favor of continuing the escalation. This seems to be regarded as big news in some quarters.

I think there is more truth in this dead fish’s eyes than in anything that was said on Capitol Hill yesterday.

John Yoo has been getting a bit of guff in the liberal media recently for some legal memoranda he wrote a while back defending the president’s right — and duty — to protect the American people from terrorism. This criticism is as short-sighted as it is pernicious — and we are here today to defend this good and faithful public servant against the unwarranted calumnies that have besmirched his name.