Kos is spot-on about this. Sure, we all know that if Bush wins a squeaker it probably won’t change the way he governs. It potentially matters in the other direction, though. Goal one of this election is removing GWB and co. from power, but an important secondary goal should be sending a message to Republicans everywhere […]
Shorter David Brooks: As opposed to someone like John Kerry, who will shamefully try to politicize George Bush’s inability to capture Osama bin Laden, I will only use bin Laden to lie about Joh
Paperwight has a nice post about the inconsistency of the Bush administration on free trade. I know that there are more important questions at the moment, but it’s worth noting again that the ad
Digby has a couple of good discussions of the Revolution in Military Affairs, here and here. I wrote about this crazy stuff back in March of 2003, when it was revealed that none other than Newtie Gingrich was advising the Pentagon, and had been doing so for a long time, with some very questionable new-age theories that […]
Most people have heard by now of the casualty report in the Lancet, which estimates that around 100000 Iraqi civilians have died during the war. Fred Kaplan does a good job of questioning some of the
Call me an authoritarian if you wish, but I’m not all that opposed to the idea. I’d certainly make the penalty minimal (but not inconsequential) and I’d formalize the non-participant
Ok, if you haven’t read the NYT Op-ed page yet today, explain how this election could lead to a President Edwards being sworn in on Jan 20, 2005, with no assassinations. No peeking. Answer here. Update: No deaths are required.
You can’t blame Saint Ralph for envying the stench of desperation coming from his Republican allies; at least it would be a sign of life. But I think this is overdoing it a bit: These days, a p
Mike Leigh is, without serious question, a major filmmaker. His method of improvising from complex characters to develop a then-fixed shooting script makes his movies feel like nobody else’s, he
From Bird Dog, over at Tacitus: Update [2004-10-28 18:10:27 by Bird Dog]: Ralph Peters, McQ and Dale Franks are wrong, and so am I. ABC News confirmed that the video taken by an TV news crew on April 18th contained HMX under IAEA seal. The final two paragraphs: After the bunkers were opened, the 101st was […]
Henry at Crooked Timber notices some GOP 527 ads in strange places: One of my colleagues complained to me this morning that her AOL Instant Messenger software had been hijacked by political spam. As
Update: I didn’t mean to post this as a blank post. Here’s what I meant to include: Part 1: From MyDD, we learn of an interesting new segment of the Bush stump speech. Here’s a samp