National Review's Thomas Smith Awarded the Scott

Thomas Beauchamp Prize for His Middle East Reporting

"Elspeth Reeve, our extremely talented reporter-researcher,

penned a clever, interesting, very well-executed defense of

despicable authoritarian pundit Ann Coulter. I can't wait

to see her equally-clever defense of execrable xenophobic

hatemonger Michelle Malkin. Check it out at TNR Online

next week."

"When Clinton came into the state," says Marty Peretz,"Lieberman and Lamont were running dead even in thepolls, more or less. Clinton's appearance began Lieberman'sdecline. My decline, on the other hand, began when Icompared Michael Kelly to Thucydides."

In 1998, Jacob Weisberg said that

President Clinton had only a 25%

chance of surviving the Lewinsky

scandal. In 2004, he admitted he

was incorrect in backing the invasion

of Iraq. In 2006, he says Kevin Phillips

is wrong about everything. These have

come to be called Weisbergisms.