This is just too hilariously baroque for words.

Yglesias is absolutely right about this. The Iran NIE may stand as the Bush Administration’s–unwitting, unwilling, kicking and screaming–foreign policy “triumph” of the year…and an advance indication of how the world might respond to a new, more reasonable Administration. But the fact that the UN is still moving ahead with a new sanctions regime is [...]

The reports on ABC and in the Washington Post quoting, on the record, a former CIA interrogator of Abu Zubaida perfectly reflect why there is so much ambivalence in the land about extreme interrogation methods, what constitutes torture and whether torture administered by Americans should ever be permitted under any circumstances. Former CIA officer John [...]

Tom Edsall at Huffpo speculates about whether the Clinton campaign is aiding and abetting an effort to make Barack Obama’s youthful cocaine use an issue. Here’s the evidence: …Democratic activists have quietly received messages from Clinton allies pointing in the likely direction. Those messages provided a link to an Iowa Independent story by Douglas Burns [...]

PowerPoint is the soccer mom of 2007: