WASHINGTON

In perhaps the most shocking sign yet of the dire condition of the nation’s economy, Santa Claus today appeared before the House Financial Services Committee pleading for a $25 billion bailout of his North Pole-based toy manufacturing industry.

Lawmakers were shocked at…

Barry Blitt, "The Politics of Fear," The New Yorker, July 21, 2008

Thanks to everyone who’s called, written, e-mailed and phoned about my Sunday column, “The First 83 Days.”  I apologize to those who were offended, but I’m stunned at the…

Courtesy of CBS News

Pop quiz:
Below, you’ll find transcripts from two television interviews that aired last week. One comes from the interview of Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, by “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric. The other…

Thanks to loyal Platformista jjk for passing on his copy of Christopher Buckley’s latest Washington satire, “Supreme Courtship,” which posits that a bowling-loving president with epically low approval rates would nominate a sassy TV judge to the Supreme Court.

I’m a big Buckley…

Gerard Baker, writing in the London Times, offers this satirical account of Barack Obama’s world tour:

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the…