Sam Rosenfeld

NOTE THE ELLIPSIS. While I was on the whole Catholic thing earlier — sticking up for Holy Mother Church against the Worst Published Writer Ever — I figured I’d slide on over to see what one of my favorite Papalettes was up to. Ah, mais oui. La Noonan never disappoints. It seems that nasty liberals […]

PLAYED FOR SUCKERS. Kevin Drum highlights the new Gallup poll showing a collapse in the GOP’s typically overwhelming dominance among white religious voters. He notes at the end that “if even 5% of them stay home and another 5% switch to the Democrats, it’s going to have a huge impact. David Kuo‘s new book ought […]

TAX-EXEMPT MONEY-LAUNDERING. The Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, led by Max Baucus, have put together a minority report (PDF) questioning the tax-exempt status of several of the non-profit organizations that apparently put dollars through the Maytag for the felonious Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. (It should be noted that Finance committee chairman Chuck Grassley did […]

BEATS KEN BURNS. OK, so the Turkish guy seems like a real standup fella, but next year’s Nobel better go to these folks or there will be all kinds of Swedish hell to pay. You wouldn’t think there were that many people who could do Jonah Goldberg imitations, but, damn, this guy’s good. By the […]

A NEW CHAMP. This is even more evidence that the late Abe Rosenthal‘s crown as Positively The Worst Published Writer Ever is being struck even more daily into the hazard by Marty Peretz. I won’t bother totaling up the productive and talented people produced by places like Georgetown or Notre Dame. I won’t even stick […]

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH VERMONT? Alas, I have no time at the moment to weigh in on the Dems–and–libertarians debate, but one aside in Tom‘s post really caught my eye and I did just want to throw out a question to him or to folks in comments — Bush’s share of the Vermont vote went […]

MARK DOWN. I�m disappointed that Mark Warner has dropped out of the presidential race. I think he would have made a good candidate, and hope he will consider running for Vice President, if asked. Many are already speculating that he will run for Senate in 2008 if Republican incumbent John Warner retires. I�ll presume he […]

LIBERTARIANS AND DEMS. I rarely disagree with Ezra, but he�s just plain wrong about the libertarians and their significance to a potential future Democratic majority. I talk about their potential in my book, and would also recommend libertarian Ryan Sager�s Elephant in the Room, in which he drills down further on the problem Republicans are […]

“I’M WITH FUZZY.” Great things are happening in my onetime adopted home state of Wisconsin. First of all, there was Russ Feingold with the new Air America Morning Zoo crew this morning, talking about how the Democratic senatorial caucus talks big in public, and then folds in private, usually on the advice of consultants “with […]

EXPORTING AMERICAN VALUES. Today in Baghdad, according to the Associated Press, gunmen stormed a Sunni television station and killed 11 people. “It was the second attack on a television station in the capital in as many weeks,” reports AP writer David Rising. No need here for some sardonic, smart-ass comment about the success of Iraq’s […]