Looking for racism

By Jul 31,2008

Looking for racism

Josh Marshall: I note with interest today, John McCain’s new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. (See today’s new ad and this from yesterday.)...

By Jul 31,2008

Blank Check

It’s understandably difficult to rally Joe Six-Pack—or even Jane Starbucks—around an issue as murky as the recently ratified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008; the legislation...

By Jul 30,2008

Reducing emissions isn't the issue…

…because reducing emissions isn’t feasible. Matthew Yglesias is enjoying his time in Aspen, taking breaks from the conferences to lecture the auto/gas industry about how they perceive the future. He...

By Jul 30,2008

Bennigans

I’ve never been to a Bennigans. I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen a Bennigans in real life. But I was still a little sad to hear that Bennigans is...

By Jul 29,2008

Westward Ho: How Russia Sees Serbia

Read this fascinating op-ed from Novosti, the Russian News and Information Agency, on “Belgrade’s strange way of getting an EU pass” with the arrest of Karadzic. Very brutal commentary without...

By Jul 29,2008

The IOC is a joke, cont.

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Michael Sussan points out the absurdity of the IOC banning Iraq from the Olympic games: While the Iraqi government should clearly have refrained from...