Commentary - America's Future

By David Adesnik • Feb 18,2009

You hurry up! We need more time.

Last week, Barack Obama told us to expect big things from Tim Geithner: Tomorrow, my treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, will be announcing some very clear and specific plans for how...

By Nicole Kurokawa Neily • Feb 17,2009

Taxman Set Me Up!

Today, Marion Barry will be filing his 2007 income taxes. He has filed late for 8 of the past 9 years. According to The Washington Post, Barry’s defense is that...

By David Polansky • Feb 17,2009

As Bill Ayers might say, “Hyde Park is a great country”

Around election time last year, it became de rigueur to caricature Hyde Park as a haven of Bobo-ishness; a wealthy enclave replete with professional radicals, Esperanto courses, Wiccan temples, fair...

By David Adesnik • Feb 17,2009

Reaching across the aisle

Bipartisanship has had a rough few weeks here in Washingon, but it’s alive and well in some corners of the blogosphere. One of them is The Moderate Voice (TMV), led...

By David Adesnik • Feb 17,2009

Mubarak at the White House?

Sound advice from the WaPo: Governments throughout the Middle East, and the many Arabs working for democratic change in their countries, will be watching to see if the Egyptian ruler...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 17,2009

Dwight Schrute vs. Iran

I haven’t even read Rainn Wilson’s op-ed on the Iranian persecution of their Baha’i minority, but I can tell you that it’s the greatest op-ed ever written. Why? Because Dwight...