Playing Against Type

Ogged of Unfogged boils the importance of why we need to forge a "proud wartime liberalism" down to a simple nugget. Actually, it’s a commenter over at Political Animal who does this, and it’s about something, that at first glance, seems unrelated.
Call it the "Nixon in China" gambit. After 9/11, politics in America were turned [...]

Blog Turfing

There seems to be a spat concerning Omar & Muhammad (the brothers who write the Iraq the Model blog). They’re currently touring the country as part of the Spirit of America tour. Most rightie bloggers are fond of these two because they embrace the Administration line on Iraq: namely that things are going better than [...]

Koufax Nominations are open

Just want to let everyone know that the Koufax Award nominations are open. The Koufax goes to the best lefty blogs out there, in a variety of categories. Should you want to nominate this blog, feel free–but there’s lots of other ones out there, such as Pandagon, Josh Marshall’s, Zoe’s Greenpass…

Ours Not to Ask Why

While skimming my morning reading, I came across two disturbing passages, courtesy of Duncan Black.
First, he quotes CNN’s Barbara Starr as saying:
What is very interesting is several days later now nobody is criticizing the
soldier. He made a valid point but there’s no real evidence yet that anyone has
demonstrated soldiers are going through landfills finding scrap [...]

A Proud Wartime Liberalism

By now, many of you are aware of Peter Beinart’s article on national security & liberalism ("A Fighting Faith", this week’s issue of TNR; if you don’t have access, email me and I’ll send you a copy). You’ve also read Kevin Drum, Matt Yglesias, Duncan Black, and Ezra Klein, as well as sundry others. Having [...]