The presidential nomination process remains the weakest part of our political system. It's too lengthy, its rules are too capricious and giving eternal first dibs to Iowa and New Hampshire is intellectually indefensible.

So Mitch Daniels is not running for president. That's what I expected--on Tuesdays and Thursday and alternate weekends; on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I was convinced he would run, and on the leftover weekends I was uncertain. Let's review the bidding.

Rather than making radical changes or pushing political agendas when calamity befalls us, we must first cope with the hand we've been dealt.

Informed, willing and healthy prisoners should not be deprived of the opportunity to help the sick while improving their own prospects once they are free.

There are 24 people who are beneficiaries of nontrivial presidential buzz, but only five are likely to emerge as true candidates.

Texas governor Rick Perry is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination now, at least in the national polls. Undoubtedly that's the main reason so many East Coast pundits and Beltway wags are making fun of him.

This has been the strangest battle for a major party presidential nomination that I have ever seen. One of the most striking features of the pre-primary stage of the past six months or so has been the primacy of debates. 

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