Month: October 2007

. SANCHEZ SPEAKS…. The stakes keep getting higher: Friday brought the harshest criticism we’ve heard yet of the Iraq war from a retired military commander : In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq,...

IG means Inspector General. Normally, the IG operates outside the boundaries of political influence and cronyism.  This week we learned that CIA Director Michael Hayden has launched an investigation of the IG. This comes in...

Cross-posted at Daily Kos Scientists have an odd Holiday season–it comes every second week of October when the annual Nobel Prizes are announced.  They receive the gifts when news stories on unalloyed triumphs of...

Fred Barnes is a willful idiot. But he may have made a point I hadn’t considered. Common wisdom is that a pro-choice candidate cannot win the Republican primaries but, if they could, they would be viable in the general...

I don’t know how true it is, but Julie Bosman reports in the New York Times that Iowans are not paying attention to blogs and that they are still getting most of their political information from mainstream sources and talk...