As Malaclypse notes in comments, GM -- bolstered by its well-reviewed, Corolla-beating entry into the compact market -- had another major leap in sales. Yeah, providing the company with the capital it could have obtained from private markets in any context but the Bush Depression anyway...
Globe and Mail and the CBC calling a Conservative majority government, NDP not only official opposition (as widely predicted) but towards the top end of their range, Bloq wiped out..
Though it's political significance has since been overshadowed by recent events, Lara Logan gave a remarkable interview on 60 Minutes last night about her assault during the Egyptian revolution. This.
(1) Was the killing of Osama bin Laden an execution, or would the military team have taken OBL alive if he hadn't resisted or had been rendered harmless? Government officials have made contradictory statements on this point, and it's unlikely we'll ever know the truth with...
Nearly impossible to call, because it's unclear what will happen in Quebec (where the NDP is polling well but will lack any kind of ground operation in many ridings.) Let's.
Last Wednesday I blogged heads with Daniel Larison about Syria and Libya: I would like to note that the diavlog was recorded on Wednesday, prior to the most devastating tornado.
Or at least start being a little less hysterical? See also Yglesias and Fallows. Update: This kind of thing was inevitable, and no doubt we'll be hearing from lots of anonymous officials to the same effect in the days to come: WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say...
Let's hope that this will avert the predictable disaster of a Michael Bay helmed Bin Laden film: Fortunately, Kathryn Bigelow, who is responsible for The Hurt Locker, an Iraq war.
Engaging in pointless hair-splitting over which adjectives describe an acceptable emotional response to the death of OBL and which do not.
Jennifer Rubin provides the inevitable spin, arguing that the killing of OBL vindicates the Bush approach of using military force -- including an invasion of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no significant security threat to the United States: Third, this...
This ABC News story indicates that the only other people killed in the "firefight" in which OBL was supposedly killed were his son, two "couriers," and a woman who one.
Many folks on the Twitter seems convinced that the good news about Bin Laden effectively ends the 2012 campaign. This certainly doesn't hurt. But I would point to George H.W..