I recently suggested that Sen. [tag]John McCain[/tag] (R-Ariz.) is in the process of moving the goalposts when it comes to his favored policy for troop escalation in Iraq. As of today, McCain’s only consistency is his willingness to be inconsistent. Let’s take a look at McCain’s position over the last couple of months. * Three […]
Because I’ve done individual posts welcoming John Edwards, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton to the presidential race, I thought it only fair to extend the same treatment to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), who announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee today, with a formal announcement due in March, after the state legislative […]
On January 11, in a speech to U.S. troops at Fort Benning, Bush explained the origins of his escalation plan for Iraq: “The [Iraqi] Prime Minister came and said, look, I understand we’ve got to do something about this violence, and here is what I suggest we do. Our commanders looked at it, helped fine-tune […]
The Beast magazine offers a nice, light-hearted cover story in its new issue that’s almost custom-made for a Discussion Group: “The Most 50 Loathsome Americans.” The Beast listed 50; I suggest we narrow things down to our top five. For what it’s worth, here’s who came out on top of the magazine’s list: 5. O.J. […]
The Wall Street Journal noted today that, with the State of the Union coming up, the president may try to change the direction of the national conversation a bit. “Iraq can’t be ignored, of course, but Mr. Bush said his piece on that in his recent address to the nation,” the WSJ’s Gerald Seib wrote. […]
For a while, it seemed as if we’d hear new reports about a pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription on religious grounds every week. It led to a flood of publicity, bills in Congress, and new laws at the state level. This week, there was a similar controversy in Ohio, but this one had a […]
It’s not my intention to belabor the point, but I have an important follow-up to yesterday’s item on Barack Obama and the Indonesian school he attended as a six year old. To briefly recap, some of the more hysterical elements of the conservative movement would have us believe that Obama has secret “Muslim heritage,” may […]
The further we get from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the more former FEMA director Michael Brown seems willing to share. His latest remarks are of particular interest. Party politics played a role in decisions over whether to take federal control of Louisiana and other areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, former FEMA director Michael Brown said […]
First up from the God Machine is a news item that sounds apocryphal, but a) it appeared in a fairly credible newspaper; and b) I can’t find any reports debunking it. The letter “X” soon may be banned in Saudi Arabia because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: […]
We knew it was pretty likely, and today’s it’s official: Sen. Hillary Clinton announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee. Six years after making history by winning a United States Senate seat as first lady, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this morning that she was taking the first formal step to seek the Democratic […]