In The Know: New Iraqi Law Requires Waiting Period For Suicide Vest Purchases

Of course, everyone knows by know that they should be reading David Brooks every Tuesday and Friday (and watching him on The News Hour on Fridays) but, just in case there someone who did not get the message…. …his column … Continue reading →

After his Faith in America speech, I confidently predicted: I just read Romney’s speech on Faith in America and I have to say that I am terribly impressed. I think he just won himself the republican nomination. It was an … Continue reading →

There are people who tell me that they haven’t seen Obama speak. They are missing something special.

I hold Gail Collins personally responsible for the downward spiral on the NY Times editorial page over the last several years, but occasionally she says something important. Like today Meanwhile, the Republican far right has fallen into a remarkable snit … Continue reading →

More from that same article in The Guardian, Remember that in 2004 every American city with a population over 500,000 voted Democrat, and the Republicans won by taking the countryside and the outer suburbs. The blue state/red state division is … Continue reading →

This article in The Guardian imagines the Republican primaries as a cocktail party… Planetary distances of policy and world-view divide these men, and the Republican debates have the air of cocktail parties whose guests have been selected by random telephone … Continue reading →

Ah – this is the way they used to do it back in the old country… At Bush & Clinton Forever, we strongly believe that a family’s political experience, pedigree, ambition and “brand name” are of paramount importance in American political life.  … Continue reading →