A Dangerous Reverberation

Arthur Silber has the goods on W’s “let’s-conquer-the-world” speech, and also gives us a glimpse (but just a short one: we can’t linger there too long) into the mind of David Horowitz, who has moved from being a left-wing...

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:...

Nineveh on the Potomac

Over at The Guardian, Sidney Blumenthal considers the president’s second inaugural address, recalling a line from the first:As Bush draws the sword of righteousness against the forces of darkness, the enemy being evil itself ("evildoers … axis of...

Spreading Democracy and Hypocrisy

At a time when Iraqi expats all over the world are registering to vote in the forthcoming election, here’s a related situation, explored by James Bowen in the Irish Times, to ponder:The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is the...

Glenn Reynolds, Laughingstock

From Atrios, this post from The Poorman goes nicely with Justin’s post below:Depressing Answers To Questions That, In A Sane Universe, Would Never Need To Be AskedMore stuff from Eschaton: Time to Deploy the 101st Fighting KeyboardersWho’s the only guy who...