Jesus, make it stop:More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old, first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard...
Month: September 2008
It's not surprising to see Rachael Larimore make excuses for Palin's baldfaced lies about the Bridge to Nowhere by 1)carefully omitting her actual statements (she didn't merely claim to have "nixed".
There's a lot of this kind of thing going around right now (shorter version: she can bring home the salmon and fry it up in a pan). Indeed it's being.
Yglesias points out this report from the Center for American Progress on sea-based ballistic missile defense, in which Andrew Grotto and Rebecca Grant argue for continued funding of research and development into AEGIS based ballistic missile defense systems. I can't really disagree with that conclusion,...
The priorities of Sarah Palin:An expensive sports complex made much more expensive because you're too incompetent to ensure the city had the land rights -- not burdensome.Paying for rape kits.
An editor really needed to tell Gary Kamiya to go back to the drawing board with this one. But I suppose for a publication that publishes Camille Paglia this is.
Intriguing:A defense analyst I spoke with, who advises American ground forces, said to rebuild the Georgian military along conventional lines might be the wrong approach. Instead he suggested a different force model, that of Hezbollah. What Hezbollah did so effectively, as was shown in the...
Marc Ambinder says that a GOP ad "claims that Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere," which is technically true but functionally false."Let's be clear. Palin's repeated claims are not "technically".
I give you Wasilla during "The Sarah Years." Ari asks the appropriate rhetorical question:What is there to say about a politician who believes that government should be big enough to.
Somehow, I'd forgotten about this one:Stevens, like a generation of Alaskan politicians before him, has regularly used Alaska's marginal strategic importance as a cover for political nest-feathering--which explains part of why a quarter of the $7.6 billion Alaska received from the federal government in 2002...
I think this is the key part of Greenwald's post about Gregory replacing OberMatthews:Finally, and perhaps most notably of all, Olbermann's role as anchor somehow destroys the journalistic brand of.
Given that the Russian Navy is hopelessly outmatched by NATO in the Black Sea, what point is there to maneuvers off Venezuela?...a source indicates to me that the task force.