Lessons from life in Washington’s ideological gray zone.
David Weigel
David Weigel is a D.C.-based reporter and MSNBC contributor who (mostly) covers the conservative movement and the GOP.
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Larry Johnson’s Strange Trip
How a onetime hero of the liberal blogosphere and the Democratic Party spread perhaps the most damaging anti-Obama smear of the primary.
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The Colbert Diaries
Following in the footsteps of Robert Ferrigno’s Islamists-conquer-America novel Prayers for the Assassin, ACC Studios’ comic-book chronicles of a liberal dictatorship, Liberality for All, and Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card’s new book Empire (depicting the “red-state vs. blue-state American civil war” in 2008) comes a new masterwork of culture war science fiction: The Colmes […]
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Running From The Running
On Monday morning, West Virginia Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito dashed five years of Republican hopes and announced she would not run against Senator Robert Byrd. The formerly rock-solid Democratic state (52 percent for Michael Dukakis) gave George W. Bush a 13-point landslide last year, and Republicans had considered a Thune v. Daschle-style upset of the […]