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...