Yglesias Shrugged

The reaction to the Hagel-for-President boom, on both the left and the neocon right, continues to confirm my jaundiced view of both: "Outside of the foreign policy realm," avers Matt Yglesias, "there's not much to like here from a liberal point of view." That's pretty...

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Who The Heck Is Cenk Uygur?

It isn't just the neocon bloggers and Dick Cheney who are gritting their teeth over the rise of Senator Chuck Hagel as the new paladin of the antiwar movement: Cenk Uygur, over at the Huffpuff -- otherwise known as the bulletin board of the DNC -- chimes in with a...

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The Real Hillary

This video (hat tip: Lew Rockwell) is revealing in a number of different ways. First of all, it shows up Hillary Clinton for what she truly is: an opportunist who is only tenuously acquainted with the truth. She now claims that if she had known then what she knows...

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Wrong, Rich, & Celebrated

This article, "The Iraq Gamble: At the pundits' table, the losing bet still takes the pot," by Jebadiah Reed, in Radar, is a hoot -- if you like your humor a darker shade of black. Reed discusses the way-off-the-mark predictions and prognostications proffered by...

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Another Pro-War Conservative Recants

Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons, and a former writer for National Review, recants: As President Bush marched the country to war with Iraq, even some voices on the Right warned that this was a fool's errand. I dismissed them angrily. I thought them unpatriotic. But...

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The Pelosi Cop-out

Confirming in spades the central theme of today's "Behind the Headlines" column, newly-installed Speaker of the House Nancy "It's All About Me" Pelosi's speech at the swearing-in reiterated her ongoing cop-out: The election of 2006 was a call to change - not merely to...

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Forget the War — It’s All About Nancy

I'm glad somebody's holding them accountable: While discussing the Democratic ethics legislation, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Democratic Caucus chairman, was interrupted by anti-war protestors lead by Cindy Sheehan, a well-known activist whose son was killed in Iraq. "We're...

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Hagel Shrugged?

Chuck Hagel, one of the few sane Republicans left standing, will not run for President, according to this source. Heck, he's not even going to run for reelection to his Senate seat.

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