Month: October 2008

. Israel heading for snap election in early 2009 TEL AVIV (CBC) – Israel is heading for a period of political turmoil after prime minister-designate Tzipi Livni gave up efforts to form a coalition government. Her decision,...

Rahm Emanuel no longer heads the DCCC, but he’s paying close attention. And he’s giving people a head-fake, setting low expectatations: “North of 20 and less than 30,” is how Emanuel answers when I ask how many seats...

Hey!! This is the argument I’ve been making with progressives since last winter. Many Obama partisans detected a vague racial appeal in the anti-urban framing. But the attacks also highlighted an overlooked aspect of the...

Tired of this campaign. Tired of gas prices that are insane. Tired of the wars. Tired of the bores who shout on my TV in tones that are too angry. Okay, enough with the poetry. I really am tired. Tired of all the crap, the nasty...

Booman recently wrote a short piece titled Palin’s Snakebit Hockey Mom Routine. It was about Sarah Palin’s recent misadventure in St. Louis, where St. Louis Blues goalie Manny Legace suffered  a hip flexor...