Sam Rosenfeld

FRC ON SOTU. Family Research Council head Tony Perkins sounds some sour notes regarding Bush‘s speech. –Sam Rosenfeld

BENNY MORRIS. He’s got quite a piece in The New York Sun. Rob‘s response is worth a look. –Sam Rosenfeld

WEBB. Better than poor Tim Kaine. –Sam Rosenfeld

THE ENEMY. Lots of Iran references in the speech, of course, and a newly precise articulation of how, exactly, it can be that Sunni al-Qaeda and Shiite Iranians can comprise some kind of common “terrorist” enemy to the U.S. “The Shia and Sunni extremists are different faces of the same totalitarian threat,” the president said. […]

MARIA LEAVEY MEMORIAL SERVICE. One more reminder for those in the D.C. area about the memorial service for Maria Leavey tomorrow: Maria Leavey Memorial ServiceWednesday, Jan. 24, 6 pmDemocratic National Committee BuildingWasserman Room430 S. Capitol St.Reception to follow at the Democratic Club next door; hors d�oeuvres and cash bar. See more here. –Sam Rosenfeld

YOU GO, MOM! Having just learned that Senator Clinton (that’s Hillary to you, bub) will join Keith Olbermann during MSNBC’s coverage of tonight’s state of the union address, I humbly ask readers to revisit Dana Goldstein‘s insightful piece on the political mommy-hacking recently exhibited by Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. These two steely politicians […]

STARR ON OBAMA, D’SOUZA ON STARR. Riffing on this New York Times Week in Review piece, our own Paul Starr offers some thoughts on Barack Obama, generation-baiting, and polarization over at his Freedom’s Power blog. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Sunday Times, Alan Wolfe wrote a very very shrill review of Dinesh D’Souza‘s new tome The […]

THE CASE AGAINST RICHARDSON: A REQUEST. For quite a while now, my go-to Dem presidential candidate pick, when conversations move to that subject, has been Bill Richardson; I’ve usually said it half in jest, but frankly I’ve never quite figured out exactly what’s supposed to be so unserious and obviously funny about the candidacy of […]

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. In last week’s Nation, George Scialabba reviewed a bajillion new liberal books in an essay tackling the state of American democracy and the prospects for progressive reform. Towards the end of the piece, in discussing Paul Waldman‘s Being Right Is Not Enough, Scialabba writes, “as a mostly logos kind of guy, I […]

MARIA LEAVEY MEMORIAL SERVICE. For readers in the D.C. area who may be interested, here’s information on the memorial service for Maria Leavey next week: Maria Leavey Memorial ServiceWednesday, Jan. 24, 6 pmDemocratic National Committee BuildingWasserman Room430 S. Capitol St.Reception to follow at the Democratic Club next door; hors d�oeuvres and cash bar. We’ll post […]