Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Well, the weekend is already over. I just wanted to thank you all for your kind welcome and for some great comments to my posts. It’s always such a pleasure to blog here, and, of course, a big thank you as well to the Carpetbagger, too. I invite you […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings According to the AP, “Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so”. Mark Warner was widely seen as the anti-Hillary candidate, and it was assumed that Evan Bayh and John Edwards would be […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings According to the Hartford Courtant, Ned Lamont donated another $2 million to his Senate campaign” yesterday. As well, “[t]he Lamont campaign questioned $387,000 in cash disbursements by Lieberman’s campaign shortly before the Democratic primary”. Lamont is down by 17 points, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll. Will this latest […]
David Kuo’s new book, “Tempting Faith,” has generated considerable buzz in the political world, but a regular reader, Stephen, emailed me the other day with an angle that seems to have been largely overlooked. I have to admit I’m a little torn inside. I’ve been reading (and you’ve been blogging) for years about the dangerous […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings One of my favourite conservative bloggers is John Cole of Balloon Juice — perhaps because he doesn’t much care for Bush and the GOP, but also because he’s consistently engaging and always independent. I recommend his “Quick Hits” post from earlier today. It begins: “Despite being the fact the […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings I try not to get too excited about this sort of thing. After all, there is still a lot of time, in political terms, before the midterms. And, whatever the polls are saying, nothing at all is certain for the Democrats. And yet, this analysis from Newsweek suggests that […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings It’s been a rather tumultuous past year or so for the French. Last November, there were the riots — a state of emergency, if not quite another revolution — that, with multiple triggers sending alienated and in some cases highly politicized youth into the streets, exposed the deep cultural, […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings In case you missed it, over at The Decembrist earlier this month, Marc Schmitt wrote an excellent post on the current civil war (or, more euphemistically, “leadership crisis”) in the Republican Party, specifically in its congressional wing, and “what it means for the next era of American politics”: I’ve […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Let’s face it, Nancy Pelosi has long been taking a brutal beating at the hands of Republicans and their character-assassination machine. As a surprisingly positive profile of the House minority leader in today’s Washington Post explains, “Republicans have sought to scare voters by portraying Pelosi as a liberal extremist […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Well, what do you know? John McCain has a plan for winning the Iraq War. How exciting! I’m sure it’s the one we’ve all been waiting for from the warmongers. Or not. Glenn Greenwald, who does about as good a debunking job of the possible ’08 GOP presidential nominee […]