Here's what I learned from winguts in a mere 15 minutes:(1) Terrorism is down almost everywhere!(2) Olmert is a pussy!(3) Holy crap, it's May Day!(4) War is good for babies!(5) AAAH! Brown menace!(6) May Day!(7) Brown people!I'm breathless.
Month: May 2007
Like Kevin Drum, I'm going to skip the meta-issues in Jon Chait's article and instead highlight this important point about the 2000 election:The 2000 recount is an apt birthing ground.
Everybody has something to say about the commission report that excoriated Ehud Olmert and his government for badly botching the war against Hezbollah last summer. Olmert and his advisors obviously.
Almost no one remembers this, but about an hour after George W. Bush's flight-suit strut across the deck of the Lincoln, Donald Rumsfeld appeared in Kabul with Hamid Karzai and announced that the war in Afghanistan had all but concluded. Thus spake Rummy:The president of...
Insty:JUST WATCHED BUSH'S SPEECH FROM THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN: I'm not crazy about it. The speech was actually good, stressing the changes in warfare that technology has brought ("the guilty have.