Hey, I’ve got an idea! says Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic
And a novel one as well: Obama should diss Sarah Palin in order to fire up his base.
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Think Christine O’Donnell can’t win?
Eugene Robinson disagrees with you. He thinks she can. And Chris Matthews agrees—with Robinson.
Continue reading →Connectivity
I’m having connectivity problems. Hopefully they will be temporary. I just got online, and I’m slapping this post up to let you know what’s happening, just in case I lose the connection forthwith. [ADDENDUM: About 45 minutes later it’s still … Continue reading →
Re-educating the American public
Kathleen Sebelius uses the Marxist buzz-word.
Continue reading →Any bets on whether Vanity Fair…
…will issue a retraction? Didn’t think so.
Continue reading →You can’t fool all of the people all of the time
Even if they’re young: Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008.
Continue reading →David Brooks…
…dreams of the Obama he fell in love with many moons ago, the one that doesn’t exist and never did.
Continue reading →Carnivorous sheep
In Adam Gopnik’s lengthy piece on Churchill in the New Yorker, he writes: For Churchill always thought in terms not of national interest but of a national character that could trump interest. The Germans “combine in the most deadly manner … Continue reading →
The Florida Senate race
Some good news.
Continue reading →Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse for Alvin Greene…
…it does.
Continue reading →Again…
…with the vacations.
Continue reading →Hiroshima revisionism
August 6th was the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and I recycled this piece for the occasion. It ended with these words: It’s much harder to convince a WWII vet that Hiroshima was an … Continue reading →