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...