It’s that time of the year. Today we announce your nominees for this year’s Golden Duke Awards, our annual awards show for great moments in public corruption, scandal and general betrayals of the public trust and awfulness. And this year’s nominees are … click here.

No one disagrees at this point that the politics of the payroll tax stand-off is awful for Republicans. But in the midst of that realization there is chatter from folks at the Journal and a lot of flotsamy pundits to the effect that it is a dramatic political failure that Republicans have managed to make President Obama into the champion of tax cuts for average Americans. Read More

Often all you need is a picture, to tell the tale of momentous change.