While I find Digby's logic regarding a pardon of Libby quite compelling (it seems unlikely that Bush will pay much of a price for a pardon, and it would probably even improve his standing with the true believers), I have to agree with Ezra and Matt...
Thers, back from scoring AP tests, is on the case.
Long-time friend of L G & M Lindsay Beyerstein has joined In These Times as a national political reporter. You can check out her first piece here.
Some high comedy from Benjamin Lambert, who was shown the door in the Democratic primary after trying to save the flailing campaign of racist airhead George Allen (and, hence, to keep the Senate in Republican hands):Lambert said, "I have no hard feelings. We ran a clean,...
Patrick Di Justo unearthed a 1943 Army handbook for US soldiers stationed in Iraq. Highlights: NEVER discuss religion or politics or women with Moslems. Don't stare at anyone. Remember the.
I was busy Monday and forgot to mention Krugman's great column. Bob Somerby summarizes for the non Select:“Authenticity” became the press corps’ favorite buzz-word in 1999, along with its silly.
The Nation on Hunter College and immigration.
No More Mister Nice Blog poses a question:According to Christopher Hitchens, what in the world today "stinks -- indeed it reeks -- of whatever horrible, buried, vicarious impulse underlies kiddie.
Andrew Ferguson....seriously, the "he doesn't have footnotes [because he has endnotes]!" routine? I can understand why Ferguson did it--he's a hack, is apparently entirely comfortable with comically transparent dissembling, and.
Several people have already commented about the self-immolation of Mudcat Saunders' poor-poor-pitiful-rural-Democrats shtick at Swampland. Obviously, substantive engagement with someone who declares that "I don't care what the "Metropolitan Wing" of my party thinks. I don't like them," while in the same paragraph claiming that the...
You live in Kentucky, you know a lot of people who go to the Creation Museum. Media Czech has an extended review, with plenty of cool pictures.
Like ogged, I wasn't sure how to respond to the news that Norman Finklestein has been denied tenure at DePaul (an issue I read a fair amount about when I.