Jan 27,2009
Consolidating Gains
“Russia to relocate fleet to Abkhazia” sez the FT. From Sevastopol in Ukraine, that is. So much for all the speculation people (like me) were doing about Russia’s next steps...
Jan 27,2009
Nothing in that video happened at Gitmo
This is what I mean when I ask when we can have a serious discussion about Guantanamo Bay. Andrew approvingly embeds this video (you can find it below), in which...
Jan 27,2009
My letter to the White House
As Mary Katharine noted, the Obama White House still hasn’t posted transcripts of spokesman Robert Gibbs’ daily press briefings. I’m equally perturbed that the White House hasn’t even been posting...
Jan 27,2009
Scared of Cost-Benefit Analysis?
Elana Schor at the newly relaunched TPMDC writes about an LA Times article criticizing Obama’s pick of Cass Sunstein to head up OIRA. In her summary, she makes one truly...
Jan 27,2009
What Latino voters want
How much of a price will Republicans pay for resisting immigration reforms of the kind advocated by George W. Bush and John McCain? For the record, I supported those reforms....