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This ad is indeed hilarious, and shows off the most appealing side of Mike Huckabee. And while Ana is right to wonder how many Iowans are going to see it on Youtube, it’s exactly the kind of thing that the cable news networks–whose viewers DO skew old–are going to play over and over again. UPDATE: [...]

Best campaign ad of the cycle. I’m out with McCain and his staff in New Hampshire (more on that later). After we watched this on the bus, Mark McKinnon — one of his ad gurus — simply said, “I bow to them.” (It’s worth noting that Huckabee HAD to make a great ad, since I [...]

I missed Ezra Klein’s riff on my Iraq update in the middle of last week, but you shouldn’t: he raises some interesting points. The question of whether the Congressional Democrats should continue to press their efforts to end the war remains one of the thorniest imaginable: Carl Levin’s withdrawal bill this week had the virtue [...]

I agree with Joe that the Novak item is outrageous, but the nuclear war that it has kicked off between the two campaigns is … well, I don’t really know what the right word is to describe it. So far, as best I can tell in my e-mailbox, they have had three exchanges today over [...]

This is outrageous. Journalists are continually bombarded with rumors, often scurrilous. They are not news. Rumors only become news when they are confirmed, cross-checked and responded to by the target of the attack. There are two possible reasons why Novak is peddling unconfirmed cra: (a) he is getting too old to do the actual legwork [...]

I’ve read two very good books about the inefficacy of torture recently, one fiction and one nonfiction. The novel is David Ignatius’ Body of Lies, which isn’t really about torture–but it does include some fascinating descriptions of how the Jordanian intelligence service elicits information from prisoners without resorting to violence. Ignatius has written a terrific [...]

Here’s a review of the new book about my old Rolling Stone colleague Hunter S. Thompson that I wrote for the New York Times Book Review this week.

John McCain must be causing Mitt Romney some serious heartburn in New Hampshire. How else to explain Romney’s magnificently absurd claim that the recently-reported push polls attacking Romney’s Mormonism are somehow the fault of…that’s right, John McCain — more specifically, the campaign finance reform law known as McCain-Feingold, which passed in 2002. Politico’s Jonathan Martin [...]