From Tacitus on Ralph Nader: Apropos of the efforts of some Republicans to secure a ballot slot for Ralph Nader, let me say that it’s a moderately understandable tactical move and a terrible strategic one. Obviously a Nader presence is going to siphon off lefty votes that would otherwise have gone to Democrats (his bizarre protestations […]
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Via Atrios and Crooked Timber, looks as if Focus on the Family has e-mailed Michael Moore’s home address to its members. My first reaction, so what, this is the kind of stunt that Moore pulls
Nick Confessore links to a nice article from the Columbia Journalism Review on the Iraqi National Congress and Western journalists. I’m no journalist, so I don’t have a firm grip on the
Via Atrios, apparently Dale Earnhardt Jr. told his pit crew to go and see F-911. Normally this wouldn’t be news, but the right is in full meltdown mode. A few comments from Free Republic: Well he does make LEFT turns for a living. oh boy… wonders how he feels now that a marine has been taken hostage […]
Saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday afternoon. Lots of people outside the Neptune selling anti-Bush paraphenalia, a few gathering signatures. One guy wandering around with a display trying to convince Dems
Interesting discussion over at Crooked Timber regarding this story from the Chronicle of Higher Education (thank you, Cathy, for the subscription, although I haven’t actually had the opportuni
I don’t think most people understand just how colossally the Bush administration has fucked up the North Korea situation. The media story suggests that is has been an intractable problem and that Bush has done neither better nor worse than Clinton did. Fred Kaplan shows how this is wrong: When Bush came to the White House, […]
This is pretty cool, from Rolling Stone via Political Animal: Joe Biden: I was in the Oval Office the other day, and the president asked me what I would do about resignations. I said, “Look, M
For no particular reason, I’m taking the Beltran to Houston deal pretty hard.
Gadflyer on Hitch on Moore. Getting through Hitchens can be a trial, but it’s worth it for the Gadflyer commentary. Going to see F-911 early tomorrow afternoon, will relate impressions, as I’m sure will Scott. Have been enthused by the reviews th
I don’t have much to add to the Poor Man on North Korea, or to Matt Yglesias on Sadr. I’d just like to reiterate how happy I am that the grown ups are back in charge.
Interesting report flew by on the New York Times: The success of the Indian air force against American fighter planes in a recent exercise suggests other countries may soon be able to threaten U.S. m