I have nothing but bad feelings about the addition of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Watching Michael O’Hanlon on the evening news was like a punch to the gut- we’ve been down this road before. At what point are O’Hanlon and Pollack every going to be discredited enough that their expert advice is no longer …
Archives for November 2009
Get Off My Grass
Am I the only one who gets pissed off when people send me emails marked as urgent? Isn’t that pretty damned presumptuous? Shouldn’t I be the one that gets to determine it is urgent? And if it is so damned important, call me. And it really pisses me off when it is marked as urgent …
A Village Story
This story was hand-made for DougJ: Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. *** Mezvinsky is a son of former Pennsylvania Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and former Iowa Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, longtime friends of …
The Last Eight Years Never Happened
Fred Barnes: You can’t fight a successful war unless the commander-in-chief is fully committed to it. So President Obama’s chief task in his speech Tuesday night on Afghanistan is to make it absolutely clear that he is. *** It’s true that Obama championed Afghanistan as the “good war” in his presidential campaign last year. And …
Dickmentum, continued
Steve Benen makes a good point about the Dickmentum that Jon Meacham is feeling right now: Indeed, rank-and-file Republicans were asked in a new poll about who best reflects the party’s principles. Just one chose Dick Cheney — not 1 percent, I mean one individual person. Republicans deserve a lot of condemnation for making Bush …
Just Spreading the Word of God
I’d like someone to ask the folks living at the C-Street Christian Brothel about this: Members of the Family have occupied seats in both houses of Congress going back to the 1930s, but for all but its most recent history, the hallmark of the Family has been secrecy. In the past year, however, three sex …
Open Thread
fuddmain, Anhinga. Jeff, Black Rhinoceros Spraying a Trail. Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one. Click on the photos for a …