I must register my dissent on Sam Koritz's thesis -- explained in a two-part post on antiwar.com -- Â that "what the country wants" is a white, Protestant, male of northern European descent who is "mildly" opposed to the Iraq war. From what I can make of it, Sam's...
Listen to Philip Weiss, one of the smartest writers around, on the Israel lobby and Obama: the Lobby, he says, considered Obama "a green no-account," and they all jumped on Hillary's bandwagon without realizing that the wheels were about to come off, while the neocons...
What was The American Thinker thinking when it published the following bit of prose?:Â "As Obama took steps toward the United States Senate he found a very powerful sugar daddy who would help fund his rise: George Soros. The billionaire hedge fund titan began...
Barbara Ehrenreich, writing in The Nation:Â "When did you begin to think that Obama might be unstoppable? Was it when your grown feminist daughter started weeping inconsolably over his defeat in New Hampshire? Or was it when he triumphed in Virginia, a state still...
My commentary on recent developments in the Ron Paul campaign -- and an addendum here. An editorial note: I did not choose the title.
As usual, Matt Yglesias sums it all up in very few words: "John McCain says that "anyone who worries about how long we're in Iraq does not understand the military." On the contrary, it seems to me that McCain doesn't understand diplomacy, Iraq, foreign policy,...
Reuters reports: "Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official's assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory."A senior U.S. administration official told reporters in Washington Bin Laden, his...
I've been busy over at Taki's Top Drawer, blogging up a storm on libertarianism, orthodox and otherwise; the politics of promiscuity, or -- who's the Paris Hilton of the Beltway pundits?; why mockery is the best weapon against the McCainiac; and the economics of doom....
An important clarification of my piece on "The Imperial Class" posted this morning: the rank-and-file military are not automatically inducted into the ranks of the imperial class, and, indeed, their interests are diametrically opposed to the agenda of the War Party...
Let's see: Last night, I read this -- an announcement that Ron Paul has, for all intents and purposes, dropped out of the GOP presidential race -- and today, I read this -- a report from Washington state that, with 78 percent of the vote in, Ron is polling 21 percent...
