A DEFICIT OF UNDERSTANDING. The Boston Globe has an article today detailing just how either disingenuous or frighteningly clueless (or some of both) the Republican candidates are on the subject of Iraq and terrorism: In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used by President Bush in the […]
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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EDWARDS HATIN’, PART II.
EDWARDS HATIN’, PART II. Ezra‘s post below about parts of the DC establishment having it in for John Edwards is very interesting, and the second element to this is the very similar feelings that seem to be evident among the press corps. I can remember a conversation I had with one prominent old-line liberal columnist […]
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DEFENDING MY HONOR.
DEFENDING MY HONOR. The old saying goes that one should never get in a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel. One might say the same about a man whose radio show is carried on 600 stations. But this will not stand: Limbaugh then attacked Media Matters Senior Fellow Paul Waldman, who […]
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PROPS TO THE P.O.
PROPS TO THE P.O. As you may have heard, the post office has raised the rate for sending a first-class letter to 41 cents. This might be an opportune time to spend a moment thinking about our mail service. For a lot of people, the post office is the symbol of inefficient government bureaucracy, the […]
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RUDY 2.0.
RUDY 2.0. Following on Scott‘s post on Rudy Giuliani‘s bold coming out as pro-choice, part of what this reveals is just how amateurish an effort the Giuliani campaign has been so far. Abortion was the key stumbling block to his getting the nomination, and to hear him talk about it over the last couple of […]
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ABORTION AND TEEN MOTHERHOOD.
ABORTION AND TEEN MOTHERHOOD. Scott‘s post below on parental notification laws brings up something that never seems to get said with regard to this issue. We all know that anti-abortion forces want to throw every roadblock and hurdle possible in front of a woman or girl seeking to have an abortion. When they talk about […]
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THE DOWD MANIFESTO.
THE DOWD MANIFESTO. John Edwards, you’re on notice: Maureen Dowd has proclaimed her intention to do everything in her power to destroy your candidacy. No one should be surprised that Dowd would be all over the story of Edwards’s $400 haircuts. After all, she is the least substantive of columnists, the most eager to grab […]
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Blowing Off the War
You might have had this experience at one time or another: Armed with an opinion you may not have thought much about, you find yourself arguing with someone who disagrees with you on a topic of current events. As the debate proceeds, you begin to understand that you’re actually wrong. The arguments you make to […]
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THE CLOVEN-HOOFED ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
THE CLOVEN-HOOFED ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. Count on Fox News to ask the tough questions: Was Cho Seung-Hui schizophrenic � psychotic � manic-depressive? Or were the shooting deaths of 32 people, including Cho himself, at Virginia Tech University part of the ongoing struggle between God and Satan � good against evil � lightness and darkness? […]
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CHARACTER.
CHARACTER. Anyone wondering what John Edwards thinks about religion — his own, and the country�s — would do well to read this long interview he did with Beliefnet. As a non-believer myself (and yes, more of us should be willing to say so publicly — kudos to Harold for doing so recently), I found a […]