Liberal Talk Radio

So a few of Democrats want to increase the Army by 80,000 troops. Obviously this is a good idea. We need more troops to win in the various Middle East conflicts in which we’re enmeshed.
According to this, the Army went from 2.2 million troops (18 divisions) during the 80s, to 1.6 million (12 [...]

Colin Powell has accepted a gig with Silicon Valley uber-VCs Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. KPCB is the money behind almost every tech-boom company you’ve ever heard of, from Netscape to Amazon.
Apparently he was convinced after getting a tour of the Google offices.
There’s a joke in there about Powell using the ubiquitous search engine [...]

Timothy Noah, July 2003:
One thing Chatterbox will say for certain: President Bush is not about to fire Rice. Asked about this yesterday, Bush said: “Dr. Condoleezza Rice is an honest, fabulous person. And America is lucky to have her service. Period.” If he’d been getting ready to can her, he’d have said, “Dr. Rice has [...]

Andrew Sullivan’s pseudo-mea culpa in this week’s issue of The Stranger is worth a read. On one hand, it’s clear he knows the degree of leftiness of his audience, because he bends over backwards to apologize for his misjudgement in the months leading up to the Iraq war.
On the other hand, though, [...]

From Matt Yglesias:
But George Voinovich is one of Ohio’s most consistently successful politicians so it hardly seems open and shut that Serbo-Croatian nomenclature is fatal in the swing states.

Space Shuttle Discovery sits poised to return to the heavens.
While space exploration is an unquestionably noble aim — presenting, far in the future though it may be, the next, best great hope for accessible wealth creation — it’s time for NASA to end this 24 year-old boondoggle once and for all. There are far [...]

I posted a comment on the military blog Wretchard yesterday in response to another commenter’s endorsement of Il Presidente. Apparently I touched a nerve. At 190 comments, I generated more traffic than a reference to Wretchard in the venerable Times of London.
Rather than monopolize more of Wretchard’s space, I thought I’d publish my [...]

The White House press corps smells blood in the water:
QUESTION: Scott, this is ridiculous. The notion that you’re going to stand before us, after having commented with that level of detail, and tell people watching this that somehow you’ve decided not to talk.
You’ve got a public record out there. Do you stand by your remarks [...]

Bruno and I spent some time on this week’s program reviewing the week’s events in London.
Progressives have been deafeningly silent on these sad events. Why?
As many on the right have been quick to point out, the scale of the recent attacks relative to what we all fear might happen can be seen [...]