Ezra Klein

Well this is brilliant. We’re outsourcing the war to incompetent soldiers from poor countries with shoddy human rights records. And, just like with regular outsourcing, the manpower is being massed through a byzantine web of contractors and subcontractors and no one can figure out what country’s laws, if any, these guys fall into. In addition, […]

Matt’s asking the big questions: If Jimmy Carter is truly a traitor, yet as an ex-president he still gets top-level intelligence briefings, is the Republic safe? I expect that George W. Bush is feeding him misinformation so Carter will mislead his superior (code name: Jesus), but how can we know the tricky devil isn’t seeing […]

If you haven’t been already, you should really be checking out the newly-launched Campus Progress. As the kids say, it’s the shizzle. Update: While you’re there, you really have to check out “So Speaks Some Guy With a Website“. Brilliant.

This may be a blessing in disguise. The Muslim Scholars Association, a hardline, highly-influential Sunni group, has offered their participation in the government if US troops set a timetable for withdrawal. It’s a demand we obviously can’t meet as is, but were the Shi’as and Kurds to announce that the path was now for the […]

Harold Meyerson’s op-ed on the LA mayoral race is a great summary save for one thing: it’s straight from the lips of Antonio Villaraigosa. That’s because the two are close personal friends, something Meyerson should have disclosed. It’s worth the read because the skeleton of the race is good (I, for what it’s worth, support […]

So I thought it was a good idea. You know, a fun one. I’d write a review of Hugh Hewitt’s new book, Blog, get a byline and a check, go home happy. I mean, the book isn’t really long or anything, is it? Well, no, it’s not. But it certainly the most distasteful piece of […]

Well this is positive: Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), the Democratic leaders of the Senate and House, plan to shake up the Democratic political consulting community and break the grip that a small number of consultants have had on strategy and contracts, party sources say. The Democratic leaders want to bring […]

Justin’s thoughts on my post arguing the merits of the EU’s lead role in Iran deserve a quick response. The world, he argues, is more complex than I give it credit for, mainly because the EU has no credible military force nor the appetite to introduce sanctions and our threats don’t matter because they’ve been […]

Hosting the Koufax Awards has obliterated Wampum’s server. If they don’t get some scratch, a good deed they tried to do for the lefty blogosphere is going to end up backfiring and driving them off the net. That’d really be a shame, we should support our own better than that. So if you can chip […]

The Kyoto Pact takes effect today. Without us. In some ways, it’s more symbolic than anything. Sans our involvement, it’ll barely make a dent in global carbon dioxide emissions. But our opposition neither killed nor derailed it, and that in itself was meant to send a message. It’s worth noting that, in this too, Bush […]