One of the key grafs from the Atlantic article about Rove is this one, which contains the explanation for why Rove's ambitions to create a McKinley-like realignment were always doomed (leaving aside Mayhew's entirely correct point that realignments are longer-term and more complex processes than are...
It's International Lefthanders' Day. Around here, Bean got a head start on the event by offering up one of her fingers to the gods. As for the rest of you,.
Marcy Wheeler lays out some theories for why Rove is leaving. I don't want to discount the possibility that he's resigning before scandal brings him down, but I suspect the.
So. I haven't been posting much on the weekends because N and I have been escaping the city as much as possible, and leaving our wi-fi equipped laptops behind. Usually the weekends are pretty quiet, and are spent with friends or family who live outside the...
A bit more on the Rohde and Sanger; this struck me as emblematic of Condi's tenure as National Security Advisor:In a February 2002 meeting in the White House Situation Room,.
Well, OK, it was Tommy. I have a strange fascination with utter no-hope races for the presidency. This one, actually, seems somewhat explicable to me; Thompson used to be discussed.
IB writes:I was very pleased to see a handful of commentators politely question Hilzoy's nostalgia for the Afghan War that could have been (but that "unserious" people understood even at the time would be a clusterfuck).To my shame, I was more or less neutral on the...
I was informed that the Yankees would quickly start losing as soon as they encountered the formidable Tribe, and I certainly wanted this to be true. Admittedly, such arguments would.
Gameshow kingpin Merv Griffin is no more. An odd guy by any standard, Griffin was a right wing nut who introduced Nancy Reagan to his psychic. His very name, however,.
The foreign policy stylings of George W. Bush:But that skepticism had never taken hold in Washington. Since the 2001 war, American intelligence agencies had reported that the Taliban were so decimated they no longer posed a threat, according to two senior intelligence officials who reviewed the...
In 1806, a 36 year old Albanian man named Muhammed Ali was appointed Viceroy of Egypt. The son of a tobacco merchant, Muhammed had distinguished himself as an officer in.
Hey, Robert Mugabe likes the American move towards arbitrary executive power just fine!