Never Give Up! Never Surrender!

Is it just me, or does anyone else on the McCain “No Surrender” tour keep expecting McCain to also invoke “Grabthar’s Hammer“? Reports from the Iowa leg of McCain’s pro-war pep rally are largely positive. The NYT’s Michael Cooper notes the simple fact that no one is asking the senator if he’s dropping out any [...]

In the Arena

The Petraeus Moment

Various foolish literalists have taken this clip from Hardball yesterday as an indication that I “knew something” about a phone call that General Petraeus received from the White House. Obviously, it was just speculation on my part–although the General did charge back from the recess intent on getting a correction into the record as soon [...]