Back inside from the Obama rally, hoping to regain the use of my feet, checking around for reactions…and look at this from The Corner. Aside from the fact that we’re in Illinois, not New Hampshire… And more from Lopez.

The Obama websiteis streaming live TV of the Senator’s announcement…I’m about to leave this clean, well-heated press filing center to brave arctic cold and watch the speech that I’ve just read: very inspiring, as expected, not many details, as expected…I”ll have more to say about Obama’s first day of campaigning later today, after he starts [...]

As a newcomer to this blogging business, I’ve been interested in the Edwards dust-up. As readers know, I’ve been critical of the tone of the left-wing blogosphere in the past. But I think that Yglesias raises an important point here and anyone reading the comments section of any Swampland post knows that troglyditic right-wing cavedwellers [...]

for your service to our country. Moms also serve. This, from a reader: You can count me with the Hagel, Reed, Murtha and Webb crowd. I put a kid on a bus for basic in 86 and been watching ever since while much went unnoticed. Every uniform I see is my skin. And I’m totally [...]

In which the columnist offers an opinion on the latest posturings of Senators Lieberman and McCain.

James Taranto points out –accurately–that Democratic poiticians are having some difficulty figuring out what to do about Iran. Several readers have asked where I stand on the issue. Let me make a few points: –We should do more than merely talk with Iran. We should recognize Iran. As I argued several years ago, the U.S. [...]

This, from Juan Cole: Only 2,000 of the expected 8,000 extra troops PM al-Maliki ordered to Baghdad had shown up by the beginning of February. The two Kurdish brigades coming from Irbil and Sulaymaniya, which were supposed to have 3,000 troops each, are not actually coming at full strength. One showed up with only 1500 [...]

Here’s what I like about the Edwards health care plan: –it’s universal and mandatory. –it imposes needed reforms on the insurance industry, like community rating (which means that everyone has to be covered at similar rates, regardless of pre-existing conditions). –it opens the door to a fascinating competition: private insurers would have to compete against [...]

Arianna Huffington, the doyenne of the Hollywood left, has taken time from her busy schedule to attack me for something I said on Meet the Press three years ago. Since this lone quote has become an article of faith among the take-no-prisoners left, let me respond: 1. Yes, I said it. It was a moment [...]