Oct 10,2008
An Honorable Man Wakes Up
Good on McCain, tamping down the misinformed excesses of the base base.
Oct 10,2008
They come not to praise the republic, but to bury it
Over the course of two presidential debates, our candidates have largely failed to distinguish themselves from one another in the realm of foreign policy, confirming my long-held suspicion that, when...
Oct 10,2008
Chris Buckley endorses Obama
In a Daily Beast column much worth reading, Buckley fils endorses Barack Obama for president. (Wow, he bears a frightening resemblance to his father, doesn’t he?) The column isn’t very...
Oct 10,2008
The “myth” of voter fraud
Voter fraud is a myth, designed to disenfranchise the poor. Right Dahlia? Right Matt? Right Nico? Oh, wait: The secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after noticing that names...
Oct 10,2008
So does this make Jeremiah Wright Ras the Exhorter?
Some time ago, I toyed with the notion of writing an article contrasting Barack Obama with the nameless protagonist of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I nixed the idea, out of...
Oct 10,2008
The dumbest?
Sonny labels this Yglesias post as the single most stupid thing he’s read on the internet. And while I’ll gladly agree, Yglesias’ hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-us solution is pretty dumb, in the annals...