Ezra Klein

Joe Lockhart should truly be ashamed.

There’s not a whole lot to say about the leaked National Intelligence Estimate concluding the war in Iraq has heightened the risk of terror, largely because it basically says it all. The NIE represents the consensus view of 16 spy agencies “are the most authoritative documents that the intelligence community produces on a specific national […]

Shakes here… Via Blah3, I see that Baraka has been made available on Google Video. Baraka is one of my favorite films, which I first saw in the theater over a decade ago; I walked in not knowing what to expect of a film with no plot, no actors, and no script, which was described […]

Shakes here… “You know, I’ve heard this theory about, you know, everything was just fine until we arrived [in Iraq], and that, you know, kind of that uh stir up the hornet’s nest theory. It, it, it just doesn’t hold water as far as I’m concerned.” — President Bush, August 21 (video here). Today: Spy […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Amanda has the story. Pandas are actually fairly dangerous creatures when provoked or surprised, so don’t mess with them.

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I’m trying to answer’s Tony Vila’s question, “do coattails matter?“, and in sore need of data. In particular I’m looking for US Senate & House election results from the ’70s, ’80s, and maybe ’90s, including vote totals or percentages for each individual candidate. Does anyone know where I can […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Ever since Mark Schmitt first told me about him, George Allen has always seemed to me like a man with a deep understanding of exactly one thing — the power of a good-ol-boy image in winning political office. From the football metaphors to the chewing tobacco to the cowboy boots, […]

Here’s how Fox is promoting Chris Wallace’s interview with Bill Clinton, where Wallace gets positively eviscerated after trying to jump the Big Dawg on terrorism: Can you imagine Fox labeling an impassioned speech by Bush defending his attempts to protect the country before 9/11 (including ignoring the August 6th PDB) as “crazed”? How, for instance, […]

So all this Wal-Mart-screwing-with-the-economy stuff I’ve been going on about? Here’s how it works: Let me relay this story I heard recently from an old friend of mine who I hadn’t seen in many years. He’s employed, in management in fact, by a decent sized and well established Central Illinois manufacturer. He told me he […]