Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Nov 17,2008

A Letter from Tbilisi

TBILISI, GEORGIA–Back in August I could barely tear myself away from my inbox: every few minutes I’d get an update from friends here telling me of new horrors, and fresh...

By David Donadio • Nov 16,2008

Defense attorney for would-be Reagan assassin named White House counsel to Obama

Greg Craig clearly has the qualifications, but you’ve laugh a little at this, no? President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Washington lawyer Gregory B. Craig, who served as President Bill Clinton’s...

By David Donadio • Nov 16,2008

How to waste the rest of your day

Go here, and scroll back and look at older posts. I’m hooked. I am powerless before it.

By David Donadio • Nov 16,2008

Classic Ozzy commercial

As long as rockers have to age, at least they can be self-deprecating about it. This is great:

By David Donadio • Nov 15,2008

Carl Icahn

Emily Parker profiles famed corporate raider and greenmailer Carl Icahn in the WSJ. I don’t know about Icahn’s latest shareholder initiative, but if the Pickens Plan is any indication of...

By David Donadio • Nov 15,2008

The perfect postmodern New York Times story

I don’t know how I missed this the other day, but it may be the definitive painfully postmodern New York Times story: Fox News makes Sarah Palin looks like an...