[In an April 2003 white paper for the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies titled] The Betrayal of Captain America ... Marvel Comics and other publishers are disseminating comic books that actively promote a destructive cynicism and distrust of the United States government.

[''Medved did not attend. He lives with his wife and three children in Seattle, where he hosts a conservative talk radio show.] I had the invitation on my desk and couldn't decide. Eventually the date came and went, so I guess that was the answer, ... Saturday at 6 p.m. is the heart of the Sabbath. It just didn't seem like the right thing to do, and I didn't want to spend the weekend away from home and my kids.

He was a fiscal conservative and on national defense. But he was not a social conservative.

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.