By Oct 02,2009

Carl Levin’s Afghan flip-flop

Goldfarb has the goods. Four-and-a-half months ago, Chairman Carl Levin and eight other Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee signed a letter to President Obama that began We...

By Oct 02,2009

Brooks declares war on talk radio

David Brooks’ column this morning is a guns-blazing assault on Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and the rest of the conservative talk radio-sphere. As Pete noted earlier, Brooks also...

By Oct 02,2009

Chicago out for 2016 Olympics

Idle speculation: Did disgust for American provincialism re: Roman “the child rapist who also made (some) good movies” Polanski beat out affection for Barack “Healing the world and bringing our...

By Oct 02,2009

No duh

The original headline on Andrew’s post on the results of the meeting with Iran: Iran leads us on? No duh. The headline now reads “Wha’ Happened?” Actually, the whole post...

By Oct 01,2009

John Edwards’ Callow Sycophant

John Edwards is a despicable person who surrounded himself with callow sycophants. Or, at least, one callow sycophant: Andrew Young. Politico has the sordid details: When Edwards and his family...