Jonathan Chait, writing in the Los Angeles Times has an, er, interesting suggestion: "The Bush administration's foreign policy is centered around fighting a highly expensive counterinsurgency in Iraq. The administration's domestic policy is centered around driving...
“Iraq the Model” — or the Bad Example?
Neocon bloggers are in such a tizzy over Sarah Boxer's New York Times piece, provocatively titled "Pro-American Iraqi Blog Provokes Intrigue and Vitriol," that they can barely contain themselves. We haven't seen such a roiling of the waters since a certain...
Yikes!
Uh oh. Do you think I have reason to worry?
Rice diced by Boxer
Tim Dunlop has a good summary of the Rice confirmation hearings:At the confirmation hearings for Condoleeza Rice today, Senator Barbara Boxer did to Rice what the Bush administration has been doing to the country for the past four years....Read the restUPDATE: Arthur...
A First
For once, I agree with Glenn Reynolds. Oh well, I guess there's a first time for everything....
Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Yulia Timoshenko, the Ukrainian oligarch-turned-revolutionary, says she fully expects to be made Prime Minister, now that her ally, Viktor Yushchenko, has won the presidency -- and she's already acting like she's in charge. Countermanding Yushchenko's order that the...
Like a Lead Balloon
Is Newt peaking too early?
Lethal ‘Liberation’
The wanton murder of Zaydun al-Samarrai, a 19-year-old Iraqi, by a group of U.S. soldiers who forced him to jump into the Tigris river was first revealed by Zeyad, a pro-American Iraqi blogger, who happens to be his cousin. Here is Zeyad's reaction to the slap on the...
Iraqi Election Update (II)
A large explosion has been heard in the center of Baghdad...
In Like Flynn
This looks interesting. Pricey, but worth it. The career of John T. Flynn, an old-style liberal who was one of the leaders of the America First Committee, exemplifies the course followed by many other liberals and progressives of the 1930s: his opposition to Franklin...
