To add on brief point to Ezra's follow-up to his merciless demonstration of how many ways liberal hawks erred, wasn't Pollack's original case based primarily on the alleged threat Saddam posed to the United States, rather than democratization? It seems to me that Packer's characterization of...
The fundamental problem I had with the classic "girlfriend in Canada" excuse is that it's much less effective when you actually, ah, went to college in Canada. I am reminded.
Like most teachers, I'm sure, I have the occasional -- and one hopes irrational -- dream that my students have arrayed themselves against me in ways that may or may.
Shorter Treason-In-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee: Those idiots in the MSM can't even fact-check transparently obvious one-liners to establish their empirical validity! How can anybody take anything they say seriously? LOL!Next week: Beauchamp writes that Iraq in the summer is "hotter than a blast furnace." TIDOSY conducts an extensive...
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.
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 "he's a loser" variable in quite important. His reputation as a political genius has always been...
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.
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 as a potential nominee, and he probably thought of himself as one, so why not make...
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.
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.