Liberal Talk Radio

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and thus we should take a moment to honor all those men and women who have died in service of our country. Not to be confused with Veterans’ Day, which is for all veterans. If you didn’t realize the distinction, you’re forgiven. The GMC and Anheuser-Busch ads that I’ve seen this [...]

So to speak. The Seattle City Council writes a letter to the Zoo: As construction prices climb, and concerns about global warming come into focus, Seattle City Council members are having second thoughts about a four-level parking garage project at Woodland Park Zoo that it approved three times in the past six years. The zoo [...]

Krugman disses the compromise bill. Richardson comes out against it, too. Looks like Mickey Kaus is right: if the bill goes down it will be because the support from the left erodes.

Once again, the fault, Dear Brutus, lies not within our stars, but within ourselves. It’s easy to blame the oil companies, it’s much harder to see our own hand at work here. That said, one interesting stat pops out: American consumers are plenty mad about high gas prices, but apparently not mad enough to change [...]

It’s part New York Fetishization, part Lionel-Industrial Complex as one man’s obsession with trains is bankrupting a nation: You want some New York with your tropical breezes? Try the jackhammering, traffic-snarling mess that someday will be the Caribbean’s first subway. The streets of this capital city are being ripped up because President Leonel Fernandez, raised [...]

We’ve come for your comic books: While no one at Marvel comics would admit it – at least publicly – the webs that our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man weaves are laced with stories and lessons taken right out of Jewish culture – so much so that one borough rabbi believes that Peter Parker is actually a [...]

Bing and Owen West’s Slate piece on refocusing our role in Iraq is interesting enough: they want to go back to being “advisors” for the Iraqi army, which I think is something we tried in the great surge of 2004, or maybe the great forward together plan of 2005. Or was that “Forward Together II [...]

That Andrew Sullivan is an interesting character goes without saying. I read his blog every day, although sometimes I wonder why. (Especially when gets on one his Pope-bashing crusades. I’m not a big Pope fan, but it’s not something that interests me.) Anyway, the guy’s been drifting to the left in a pretty serious way [...]

Car companies may fight their unions tooth and nail over health care benefits, but they’re thick as thieves when it’s time to fight for the right to continue to produce gas guzzlers: Conservatives are hoping that [Chrysler's] new owner, Cerberus, will be able to wrench concessions on health care–and possibly even wages–from the UAW when [...]

Sorry, but the U.S. Navy’s show of force off the Iranian coast strikes me as the geopolitical equivalent of “nyah nyah-nyah nyah nyah.” [Title reference, of course, is Monty Python's Holy Grail.]