Sam Boyd

Mike Huckabee has signed up as a commentator on Fox News. This isn’t too surprising — he’s a very fun person to watch on television, even if you disagree with everything he stands for. And while this job certainly pays well (financial details were not released, but it seems safe to assume they were generous), […]

This This GQ interview with Mark Penn is full of weird, fascinating, and delusional stuff. I’m still digging through it, but one thing that struck me in particular was Penn’s claim that he wanted to go on the offense against Obama on the war — making the argument that Obama’s votes didn’t fit his I’ve-been-against-the-war-from-the-start […]

The The Obama campaign has started a new Web site called Fight the Smears, to, well, fight the various smears that have been circulating about him via email. The site is basic — a list of smears with explanations of why they’re lies and a way you can email the information to your friends. It […]

There seems to be a There seems to be a general feeling that Jim Johnson‘s resignation from the Obama campaign represents an unfortunate cycle of accusations, counter-accusations, and resignations. “Where will it end?” people ask. In a better country with healthier politics, that’s where. Even many conservatives are starting to agree that we’ve gone way […]

A lot of people don’t realize that the U.S. still doesn’t allow people known to have AIDS into the country. We’re now one of only 12 countries with that policy and, with the exception of South Korea, none of those nations are what you’d call a very stable and free place. Anyway, today, UN Secretary […]

First off, the First Read post that got everyone so excited about Jim Jones yesterday also had another strange candidate that nobody talked about and I just noticed today: John Kerry. Yes, really. I mean, short of Robert Byrd can we really imagine a worse possible choice? Chris Cillizza has a nice post making the […]

There is nothing in this video that is not hilarious: It’s so true. I wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat (well that’s ’cause I don’t have any air conditioning, but that’s another post), my heart pounding, thinking OH NO, IT WASN’T A DREAM! Breakfast is a disaster. I can’t go […]

Since Since Hillary Clinton dropped out on Saturday a bunch of people have started saying that there’s no reason for her to want to be vice president. The basic argument (made ably by Steve Benen for example) is that being vice president is a crappy job if the president doesn’t like or trust you and […]

Apropos of this article, I’d like to propose a rule of thumb — call it the Bloomberg law. If someone is mentioned as a potential candidate for a national office for both parties, he should be a candidate for neither. The differences between Democrats and Republicans are so huge these days that someone who has […]

Yes, it’s come down to this. Hillary Clinton suggests, elliptically at the very least, that she’s staying the presidential race in case Barack Obama is assassinated: “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was […]