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WELL, ONE OF THESE ARGUMENTS IS EMBARRASSING: The sad decline of Michael Kinsley continues with this bit of vacuous contrarianism, which has been understandably picked up by jingoist Republican bloggers like Glenn “more rubble, less trouble” Reynolds. According to Kinsley, the statements about Iraq in the Democratic platform are an “embarrassment”: For national security in […]

THE PARTY LEFT ME. Perhaps the most annoying class of political pundits are the yoosta-bees? That is, generally ill-informed dilettantes who can’t keep talking about their banal move to the right as they get older and richer (preferably with lots of references to apocryphal cocktail parties) as if it portended some kind of new political […]

THE VAGUENESS PROBLEM–I’m not inclined to intensify my disagreement with Amy Sullivan , but a couple points in her post demand a clarification. Most importantly, at no point did I “endorse” the claim that “that evangelicals aren’t worth targeting as Democratic voters.” What I did argue is that I don’t think there’s a free ride–I […]