Kevin Drum, commenting on an excellent post from Juan Cole, sums up the situation in Iraq as it relates to the struggle against AQ and global terrorism as well as any summary I've seen. if we stay in Iraq and fight a long, grinding, unwinnable guerrilla war against...
Showing a complete lack of originality, I'm following up my Nader post with another classic topic around here: the scribblings of that leading sociologist, David Brooks. His column today indicates.
An even better take on Linklater from Armond White in the New York Press: Everything wrong with today's movie culture can be found in Before Sunset. Not to exaggerate this pipsqueak.
The upcoming primary here in Washington has a few tough choices to consider. On the Governors race, I'm pretty much set on Sims. I don't think he'll win, and Gregoire may well be the best chance of beating the rather formidable Dino Rossi we've got (and yes,...
Good news from Florida, which, scarily, may again be the deciding factor in the upcoming election. I confess that when I hear that Nader has suffered a setback or failed.
My admiration for Ezra Klein has significantly increased, even if the punk is nine years younger than I and has a vastly more popular blog than I ever will: Unfortunately, I.
Paperwight on postmodern Republicans: The central insights of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove (and, I suspect, most of the right wing machine) into the manipulation of the political process are twofold: 1. Act as if there are no facts. There are simply things that people say...
Recently finished reading Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton. I unreservedly recommend it to just about anyone interested in the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. Chernow is clearly sympathetic to Hamilton in.
I think that Ezra Klein has it right, and Elbert Ventura quite wrong, on Hero, the new film from Zhang Yimou. If you haven't seen it, go now. The Ventura review contains several.
From the BBC, via Matt Duss: Rock band Queen, fronted by gay icon Freddie Mercury, has become the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran. Mercury, who died in 1991, was proud of his Iranian ancestry, and illegal bootleg albums and singles made...
We passed the 1000th Iraqi casualty today, but that's not really all that important. I, and I think most Americans, are willing to accept casualties in the service of a.
Atrios reminds me of something I occasionally forget; that Andrew Sullivan is pond scum: Sullivan was literally concerned that the "decadent Left" was plotting treason against the country, desiring to.