This Vote Vets ad in response to Rush is terrific.
I know Joe and Ana are very excited about Barack Obama’s speech today, in which, among other things, he called for eliminating nuclear weapons in the world. And I agree that Senator Obama deserves credit for embracing a national security initiative that is both bold and sensible at the same time, not to mention bi-partisan. [...]
Andrew Ferguson serves up a wonderfully subversive review of Alan Greenspan’s memoir in the new issue of The Weekly Standard. You don’t have to agree with Ferguson to enjoy his iconoclastic wit, which in this case is aimed at both Greenspan and Ayn Rand. My favorite passage: This was in the late 1950s. By then, [...]
Top-shelf political reporter Jackie Calmes delivers a must-read front-page piece in today’s Wall Street Journal that must surely have operatives over at RHC RNC headquarters doubling the dosage of their ulcer meds. We already knew, of course, that President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress had alienated many fiscal conservatives with their profligate spending in [...]
Which set off a bigger bang today, Obama’s call for an end to nuclear weapons, or Hillary’s $27 million take? I’ve been more focused on Obama’s speech, personally, so maybe my read of the mediasphere ignores some important chatter, but it’s sort of hard for me to see the Hillary numbers as a game-changing event [...]
This is an excellent choice by Obama, a great issue to emphasize. He will be attacked, no doubt, for arrant high-mindedness by the right, but read the small print: In setting a goal of eliminating nuclear weapons in the world, Mr. Obama is endorsing a call for “urgent new actions” to prevent a new nuclear [...]
From the report delivered to the House yesterday, about a drunk Blackwater employee who accidentally killed an Iraqi bodyguard: The acting ambassador at the United States Embassy in Baghdad suggested that Blackwater apologize for the shooting and pay the dead Iraqi man’s family $250,000, lest the Iraqi government bar Blackwater from working there, the report [...]
We’ll be getting to politics shortly, but first, a message from the first black president: “Washington is option 1, 2 and 3,” said Arenas, who first discussed opting out with Grunfeld shortly after the season ended. “It would take something crazy to happen for me not to stay. I’m the president of DC — you [...]
