You'll be shocked to know that David Broder is thrilled about the prospect of a ticket that represents "post-partisan leadership" composed of two moderate Republicans (OK, one is not technically a Republican anymore.) As Benen says, "The column reads like a daydream of a writer who...
I really don't understand why Matt won't take the Pentagon's secret evidence at face value; would they really lie to use about such matters?In related news, on a superficial, fuzzy-math,.
Apparently NYC development officials had warning that the John Galt corporation was not an ideal choice to demolish the Deutsche Bank building, but went ahead and did it anyway. This.
From an MSNBC piece on the unpleasantness that awaits Iraq fraud whistleblowers:Then there is Robert Isakson, who filed a whistleblower suit against contractor Custer Battles in 2004, alleging the company — with which he was briefly associated — bilked the U.S. government out of tens of...
It's a generalization, and therefore subject to exceptions and qualifications, but this seems basically right:If we discount the out-and-out hacks, my entirely unscientific impression that apparently smart1 pro-war bloggers who.
Harder than I thought.
Honestly, I haven't had this much fun watching a blogger trainwreck since Khamenei supposedly went toe-up. This episode has an extra layer of appeal, in that the usual wingnut blogs have been joined by their intellectual equals in hyping the apparent non-story. Wonkette, for example, has...
I'll have a longer piece about the general subject coming up next week, but in the meantime Brian Beutler notes an interesting proposal by California Dems. In response to the.
The Editors replay some of Tom Friedman's greatest hits. Although being op-eds in an otherwise respectable paper the sentiments are at least not expressed entirely in 80's action movie chiches,.
Saw Scott Miller and Commonwealth on Wednesday in Lexington, and Jason Isbell last night in Louisville. Thoughts:Miller opened with Highland County Boy, which awakened in me latent urges to find and shoot a Yankee. Miller is a lot younger and skinnier than I envisioned. Indeed, he...
Dan Drezner (cursed be his name) aptly sums up my thinking on international law and Iraq. First, I think he's quite right to call out John Quiggin on the latter's.
As a response to Clinton's claim that we should respond to the fact that catastrophic Republican policy failure will be seen in many quarters and advantage for Republicans by accepting.