Hillary Clinton’s Iraq speech today wasn’t very noteworthy–mostly a regurgitation of old ideas and old rhetoric–except for her slagging of former Obama advisor Samantha Power: And out campaigning Senator Obama tells voters that as president he’d withdraw combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months, but one of his top foreign policy advisers told a different [...]

Reports are that this one was “particularly excruciating,” so, uh… I may fast forward some myself. In any case, direct audio link here.

Our own jayackroyd demands answers and gets them: Thank you for writing. Mr. Kristol has affixed to the top of his column a correction on this issue. You are correct, he was wrong. Here’s the sweet vindication: In this column, I cite a report that Sen. Obama had attended services at Trinity Church on July [...]

The Curious Capitalist is looking for ideas, though he has a few of his own.: “Subprime crisis” was fine at first, but it’s now totally inadequate to describe what’s going on. “Credit crisis” is way too generic. And “rolling financial crisis of 07-08(-09?),” which I use above, is way too lame. UPDATE: The latest report [...]

You know things are bad in the economy when what passes for good news is the hope that we’re probably not on the verge of the second Great Depression. “I think we know more than we did then, and just the fact that we have a big federal government is a stabilizing factor,” Paul Krugman [...]

• “And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things [like, war and stuff], and they’re things that I really have to work at.” [TP] •”[W]hat’s happening here is far bigger than the particulars of Obama and Wright, it’s about cultural dissonance that was going to bubble up one way or [...]

Back before I became I joined the MSM borg, one the most frequently-asked questions I got in interviews and panels and whatnot was, “Why should anyone trust what they read on a blog?” Everyone who asked it seemed to think this was a great stumper, you know, like what they were really saying was, “blogs [...]