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CRUISING. Also of note is that cruise ships were used as temporary shelters for Katrina evacuees, and that there was some talk in 2004 about hosting the attendees at the Republican convention in NYC on cruise ships — all of which makes me wonder what the deal is between our Republican government and the cruise […]

BLOGS OF THE CONFLICT. I I came across LebanonHeartBlogs originally via Elijah Zarwan‘s wonderfully written The Skeptic. Zarwan is a former Human Rights Watch worker and part of a network of Cairene bloggers I discovered in the past few months. The most frequently read such blog stateside is probablyIssandr El Amrani‘s The Arabist. El Amrani, […]

A QUESTION. Are we still a superpower if we can’t get anyone to do anything we want? –Garance Franke-Ruta

“How bad is it?” scale: 1) do you have running water and electricity? 2) do you need to grow your own food? 3) are you able to get medical care when you need it (even if you can’t afford it or don’t have insurance)? 5) are you able to eat when you are hungry, and […]

Part of what’s confusing about the left netroots right now is that it’s made up of an admixture of newly impassioned Democratic Party activists who came to politics through blogs and long-time liberal movement activists who have now begun blogging. To the extent that you listen to one sub-group or another about what the broader […]

It should go without saying that it really does make a huge difference to go some place. For example, over the course of the last six months I went to Israel for the first time and then, because I wanted to see what an independent Arab country looked like and could barely remember my week […]

CLINTON & THE KOSSAKS. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/06/the_kos_primary.html * New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: The presumptive frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination had no formal presence at the Yearly Kos conference. As we’ve noted before, Sen. Clinton isn’t likely to focus on anything else but winning a HUGE reelection victory this fall. After that, prepare for the […]

http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20041213&s=beinart121304 http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041227&s=boydblades122704 Kerry was a flawed candidate, but he was not the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem was the party’s liberal base, which would have refused to nominate anyone who proposed redefining the Democratic Party in the way the ADA did in 1947. What was that ADA proposal? Announcing the formation of Americans for Democratic […]

THE GREAT EQUALITY DEBATE. I seem to have inadvertantly caused a bit of a ruckus with a comment I dashed off about the women and the opinionating business over at Prospect-contributot Jane Hamsher‘s place. Fortunately, the profession as a whole is better than my item might have suggested, and rather than chucking it all and […]

TIPS FOR SURVIVING A BLOG WAR. I don’t have any particular interest in getting further into the substance of the dispute between Jon Chait and innumerable bloggers, since I had what I have to say about Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont yesterday, but there have now been enough of these blog wars between various MSM […]