Read Josh Marshall on the uranium hoax. The entire saga is a perfect case study for the difficulties of intelligence work. An implausible narrative is floated to the intelligence agency of one country. The intel services of three other countries pick up on the story without actually...
It's been amusing to watch some of the reaction to the Convention over the last week, especially to Barack Obama. Jesse Taylor at Pandagon has the latest attempt to claim Obama.
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme Court.
Michael Berube offers some voluntary editing services to a Cal Thomas column perhaps more egregiously stupid than the one by some tall blond guy that USA Today killed earlier this week. I would like to add one important point. All comparisons taking the form "x is...
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme.
I didn't watch all or even most of it, just catching most of the major speeches. From where I sit, this was a success--tight, organized, on message, and the speakers.
Well, I think this is going pretty well. He's still not a great orator, but he can be good, and I'd say he's close to the top of his game. While I can't help but think they've been laying on the Vietnam service a bit thick,...
Erik asks in the comments if Rehnquist's nature was known when Nixon appointed him. As it happens, John Dean wrote a good book on the subject. Essentially, Rehnquist was a last-minute.
Conservatives like to complain that the media insists on covering on the bad news in Iraq (like car bombs blowing up dozens of people) while ignoring the good news (a.
Paperwight makes a good point in the discussion of Dave's Ann Coulter post. It makes perfect sense for Coulter to recycle stale anecdotes from Reagan-era Michael Medved columns, because this will still seem fresh to a constituency still seething with resentment over the Reconstruction Amendments. One often hears from reactionaries that the...
One of the most amusing pathologies of wingnut cranks is their unyielding conviction that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in 2004, despite the facts that 1)she repeatedly said.
About Obama, I have little to add to the blogger consensus; at least as it sounded on the radio, it was great. Ever the glutton for punishment, after Reagan's speech I watched.