Liberal Talk Radio

The details about the latest free speech in schools battle going on at the Supreme Court are supremely depressing: The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case that has attracted attention mainly because of its eccentric story line: An Alaska student was suspended from high school in 2002 after he unfurled a banner reading [...]

Nothing like a little local jingoism in airplane industry coverage: Only a couple of hours before the two-year-late Airbus A380 landed in the United States for the first time Monday, The Boeing Co. underscored that its new jetliner, the 787 Dreamliner, remains on schedule. Ah hell, I guess this is how they cover the auto [...]

The Onion‘s running a special history of Iraq War coverage to mark the beginning of Year 5. I found this Point-Counterpoint to be just about as informative as last Sunday’s Meet the Press panel discussion with Tom DeLay and Richard Perle.

Andrew Sullivan links to a wonderful post by Michael Totten on the emergence of Kurdistan. It’s light-years away from the rest of Iraq. This sentence caught my eye: Arabs are moving up here from the center and south – when they can, and as long as they are cleared by internal security – and they’re [...]

Thanks to Muscleman Political Consulting, LLC: Late last year, [British Columbia Premier Gordon] Campbell sought advice from Schwarzenegger, who had reversed his own sagging political fortunes by championing some of the toughest environmental regulations in the United States. Schwarzenegger dispatched his chief environmental adviser, Terry Tamminen, to Victoria, B.C., where he worked quietly with Campbell’s [...]

The Iraq war enters its fifth year, President Bush high-tails it to Latin America, and finally: what makes Seattle a livable city? The viaduct results and what they mean.

The Washington Post’s David Broder, today, writing on why congressional investigations might go too far: Accountability is certainly important, but Democrats must know that people were really voting for action on Iraq, health care, immigration, energy and a few other problems. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, writing after the 2006 elections: As reported by CNN, [...]

Here’s the sad, sad, story of what happened when Van Halen tried to “get the band back together” to perform at their own Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony: Van Halen was expected to cash in on its induction with a summer concert tour with ex-lead singer David Lee Roth back in the [...]

Ron Brownstein has a typically lucid and insightful opinion piece in today’s L.A. times about the Nevada Democrats’ decision to cancel a debate on FOX news. My initial instinct was that this was a silly idea. Regardless of FOX’s biases, it’s still a couple of hours of uninterrupted Democrats talking and getting their ideas out [...]

George F. Will, transportation planner: The usual scolds — environmentalists, urban ‘planners,’ enthusiasts for public transit (less than 5 percent of the workforce uses it) — argue that more highways encourage more driving (‘induced demand’) and hence are self-defeating. But as Ted Balaker and Sam Staley respond in their new book on congestion, ‘ The [...]