Meet Sheldon Adelson, who organized a Vegas fundraiser for McCain. Given that this guy compared Bush’s middle east peace conference at Annapolis to Munich–again with Munich!–and that he’s opposed to a two-state solution, and that he’s had a history of giving money to politicians who agree with his views on Israel…what are we looking at [...]
The press corps covering Barack Obama has insisted upon what is known as a “protective pool,” similar to the one that is always on duty with the President. A protective pool is a good and necessary thing to do, though in practice, being a pool reporter is not always the most productive way to spend [...]
So it’s my last day of vacation, and I can report that Texas is even hotter in the summer than I remembered. While I’ve been away, I’ve been indulging my need for a politics fix with what is of late one of my favorite websites. Today, baseball statistician Nate Silver entertainingly devises what he calls [...]
It’s nice to see that Pete Wehner still harbors ecumenical thoughts, at least when not writing about the Bush Administration’s foreign policy. As for Reverend Dobson, who has been wall-to-wall intolerant for some time, I suspect the evangelical movement has passed him by as it moves away from Revelation and, happily, back to the Beatitudes.
Ok, so Bill Clinton is acting like a big baby, according to Tom Edsall. I remember a similar circumstance, back in 1992, with Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the role of neglected elder statesman. Moynihan, who always had his doubts about Clinton’s character, had supported Bob Kerrey in the primaries and was looking for some serious [...]
The New York Times reports on the growth of the Taliban movement in northwestern Pakistan, with details reminiscent of The Kite Runner: One of the first targets of the Taliban are usually criminals with whom they often fashion a symbiotic relationship, officials here said. Often the Taliban attack criminals and in that way increase their [...]
Apologies for the scant appearances of late. I have literally written thousands and thousands of words. In a row! I had forgotten how difficult that is. In any case, I guess I’ve missed a lot. Apparently, the press has turned on Obama! That’s at least third or fourth time that’s happened, still waiting for it [...]
Funny how quickly this always gets back to Germany, as Andrew Sullivan notes. For the record, and once again: Iraq is not Germany, nor is it South Korea. Iran is not Nazi Germany, nor the Soviet Union. The Islamist radicals are a terrible danger, as we learned on 9/11, but not an existential threat to [...]
