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BREAKING! Jon Swift scoops the MSM on the death of Michael Ledeen. His words, however, will live on: “One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today.” –Garance Franke-Ruta

THE OTHER ANGLE. Sam‘s quite right that you can read the election outcome in several different ways, and Clara Bingham does just that in her excellent Washington Monthly article, “Queens of the Hill,” which provides the contrary view: what truly marks the 2006 midterms as a watershed for women in politics is the astounding degree […]

MS. MISUNDERESTIMATED. SusanG and mcjoan I’ve always had a bit of soft spot for Nancy Pelosi, because of her leadership on increasing AIDS funding back in 1991. http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021125&s=crowley112502&c=2 “She’s just a fund-raiser,” complains one aide to a senior House Democrat. “A wealthy woman with a lot of wealthy friends.”…”She perhaps is a little naive about […]

HITT JOB. TAP’s awesome new addition Ann Friedman makes a solid point about lefty journalism in her discussion of Jack Hitt‘s colossal error in his New York Times magazine piece about abortion in El Salvador, but I think I’m going to have to disagree with her conclusion that a woman would necessarily have done a […]

ESCALATION. Iraq war veteran Jon Soltz, a founder of VoteVets.org, makes a good point I’ve also heard from others who have spent time in Iraq: A real, effective counterinsurgency force will take hundreds of thousands of troops over the course of seven-to-ten years.?It would most likely necessitate a draft.?If the President seriously thought the insurgency […]

THE PSUEDOSPHERE: It should go without saying that John Edwards is hardly the only politician to adopt a collection of generic uplifting words as a motto, or find those words also in use by others. Mark Warner‘s Forward Together PAC, for example, last summer shared its name with the failed military push into Baghdad, Operation […]

A GOOD EVENING FOR THE DEMS. My own prognostication is that the Democrats will have, by the standards of their own low expectations as late as two months ago, a very good evening tomorrow. Unfortunately, the Democrats have let the narrative of their own momentum carry them away in the past month, and stories like […]

THE FRAUD OF MERITOCRACY. This goes into the “sentences I don’t even know how to begin respond to” file. Writes Michael Wolff: By the time my son follows his two sisters, God willing, through college, I will have spent $1.7 million on tuition and other unavoidable add-ons (SAT tutors are one pricey add-on) for my […]

The last women promoted up the masthead at TNR as political writers were Ruth Shalit, who became an associate editor in September 1993 — 13 years ago — and Hanna Rosin, who was promoted to that post by 1995 — 11 years ago. The last women promoted to the role of senior editor as a […]