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Official Washington is buzzing about "metrics." Can the war in Afghanistan be successful?   Don't ask the dead.  Days ago, under the headline "White House Struggles to Gauge Afghan Success," a New York Times story made a splash. "As the American military comes to full strength in the Afghan buildup, the Obama administration is struggling to…

Like soap in a rainstorm, "healthcare reform" is wasting away. As this week began, a leading follower of conventional wisdom, journalist Cokie Roberts, told NPR listeners: "This is evolving legislation. And the administration is now talking about a glide path towards universal coverage, rather than immediate universal coverage." Notions of universal healthcare are fading in…

"I want to cover everybody," President Obama said at his news conference Wednesday night. "Now, the truth is that unless you have a — what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody's automatically covered, then you're probably not going to reach every single individual. . ." The same conventional wisdom keeping single payer off Washington's…

Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite — including from progressive commentators — rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before 1968. This obit omit is essential to the myth of Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller. But facts are facts, and history is history — including what Cronkite actually did as TV's most influential journalist…