The convention folks just put out a list of Wednesday speakers (release after jump) that would seem to either knock three of the top contenders out or make the case that someone’s going to be speaking twice. Noticeably absent from a line up of veterans and foreign policy experts are Reed, Clark and Kerry. An [...]
While it’s kind of neat that Julia Child cooked up shark repellent for our troops and all, I find it a little distressing that the government is pretty much always larger than you think it is. The secret comes out Thursday, all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed [...]
Andrew Sullivan makes the case for why the neoconservative efforts to inflate the tragedy in Georgia into a new cold war stand outside the realm of traditional conservative thought. Again, Russia should be condemned for its aggression. But this Russia–oligarchic, oil-glutted, trying to recover some international face after the historic stupidity of having bought into [...]
Hillary being nominated by name at the convention actually is a show of UNITY, not division: Statement from the Obama and Clinton Press Offices August 14, 2008 Since June, Senators Obama and Clinton have been working together to ensure a Democratic victory this November. They are both committed to winning back the White House and [...]
• “What’s most shocking about the Hillary Clinton campaign e-mails obtained by Joshua Green for the Atlantic is that he has them at all. The question, for the thousandth time, is: What is wrong with these people? Also, who are these squabbling, selfish children—and why do they not have a VH1 reality show?” [Radar] • [...]
In what’s already been a headspinning political cycle, in which the conventional wisdom has been upturned again and again, and where the “old” rules of campaigning don’t apply, McCain is throwing (or talking about throwing) another monkey wrench into the works: He told the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes he “won’t rule out” a pro-choice running [...]
