This is low hanging fruit, but it's important nevertheless:Bush Says Democrats Are Playing Politics on IraqPresident Bush assailed Democrats anew about Iraq today, accusing them of choosing to indulge in a political debate over troop withdrawals rather than giving the troops what they need to carry...
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
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A bunch of months back, the a Republican-led panel of the Missouri state legislature released a report saying that abortion is to blame for the high numbers of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. I wrote about the report over at my old pad:have discouraged Americans from...
Updated based on a commenter's eagle-eyed correction to my original post.--Dana Goldstein is parsing the results of today's New York Times poll results, which indicate that 80% of people think.
This is 100% right. Whatever label you want to apply to the policy of "making sure that the parties of an extremely bloody civil war are even better armed and.
Huh. I'm assuming that the point shaving didn't involve betting on teams with superstar players -- the mob is probably smart enough not to pay for the arbitrariness it's already getting for free...
Billionaire Scion Thomas Friedman -- pictured here lofting his invisible credibility into the air -- turns 108 Friedman Units today. Known mostly for his oracular declarations on the high wisdom.
Reading the article excerpts referenced by d. below, is it just me or isn't the first story Goldfarb discusses -- about some soldiers making fun of a woman horribly disfigured.
This post from Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb is going to keep a lot of wingnuts busy over the next few days. Goldfarb raises some admittedly reasonable doubts about a New Republic article, pseudonymously-authored by a US serviceman, that describes some pretty horrific conduct by his...
Like many Americans, I'm sure, I've cycled over the past seven years through the range of uncharitable conclusions about The Decider. "He's an idiot," I've said once or twice. "He's.
J. beat me to it, but Marc Ambinder is obviously dead wrong to say that "John Edwards's haircut was a valid story to cover." The idea that only poor people,.