Month: June 2006

The coverage of Markos and Daily Kos continues today with a profile from Newsweek and a brutal takedown by David Brooks (Times Select). Brooks piece is obvious payback for a series of relentless diaries Armando posted throughout...

In politics, as in war, the Clausewitzean concepts of fog and friction apply.  We can’t always see ground truth, and things seldom work out the way they’re supposed to.   The similarity between war and...

The coverage of Markos and Daily Kos continues today with a profile from Newsweek and a brutal takedown by David Brooks (Times Select).

The difference between campaigning and organizing is a critical one, and it’s time for the left to refocus on organizing over campaigning. Organizing requires that relationships between people with the same values and...

[promoted by BooMan at jpol’s request] Updated by the author July 2, 2006. The mainstream media and many corners of the blogosphere would have you believe that MemoGate killed Dan Rather’s career at CBS News; that...