Liberal Talk Radio

Two stories today are bad news for people who are fans of the Planet called Earth. Both revolve around the fact that, despite having a weakening economy and a weak president, the United States government is still powerful enough to kick the Earth in the proverbial shins every now and then.
In Bali, [...]

The Professor isn’t the only member of the media elite who has to suffer on Northwest Airlines’ narrow-body 757s. The New Republic’s Frank Foer welcomes us aboard “Conventional Wisdom One”:
When I journeyed to Des Moines last night, I hopped a flight that should rebrand itself Conventional Wisdom One. It is the lone direct flight [...]

It’s considered newsworthy that the waste management business might be engaged in some unethical behavior.

Much has been made about how Republican Presidential candidate John McCain is too old (”John McCain has done a lot of things for his country. He could do one more service by acknowledging that the presidency is a job for a younger person.”) but isn’t it possible that his age is a strength and not [...]

Was the freelance/permalance labor strife at Viacom precipitated by New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s overaggressive meddling? In other words, was a freelance-employer relationship that actually provided benefits to freelancers stupidly, unaccountably deemed illegal by Spitzer so that the upshot is that now none of them will get benefits? It seems that way:
Not every employer is [...]

Even though Gates turned it down, this seems sort of significant:
Senior Defense Department officials said Mr. Gates met at the Pentagon on Friday with Gen. James T. Conway, the Marine Corps commandant, and received a formal proposal that would shift Marine forces from Anbar Province and deploy them in Afghanistan.
The proposal was based on [...]

Yglesias:
I feel like a preacher flanked with an anti-immigrant vigilante on one side and Chuck Norris on the other is sort of the ultimate Republican primary candidate.

Senate Democrats are still trying to rework the energy bill so that they can get it passed. But jettisoning too many of the bill’s key provisions could render it meaningless. Especially the taxes on carbon energy sources that would be used to subsidize renewables.
The Dems ought to take a page from [...]

In a lame attempt to be contrarian, noted sprawl apologist Joel Kotkin writes in Sunday’s Seattle Times that dense city living causes global warming, because they generate “heat islands” which extend far beyond the city’s boundaries.
No, wait — he doesn’t actually argue that, but you have to read the piece twice to realize [...]

That story on the kid from Iceland apparently getting through to the President’s secret phone line includes this tidbit:
A White House official, who asked not to be identified, denied the young man had accessed a private number but instead dialled 202-456-1414, the main switchboard for the West Wing.
Vífill’s mother, Harpa Hreinsdottir, a teacher at the [...]