Liberal Talk Radio

The talk of Obama asking Clinton to be his running mate is heating up again after her less-than-stellar performance last night in IN and NC. Can I just say this would be a bad idea? And not only because you’d have Hillary’s negatives dragging down the ticket. Obama would be a fool to allow Hillaryland [...]

Haiti’s recent food riots have caused several deaths and lots of pain and suffering. This is depressing, and a reminder of what happens when globalization and “free trade” is approached from the point of view of helping the U.S. at the expense of the rest of the world: Thirty years ago, Haiti raised nearly all [...]

Nice point from Ezra Klein: Our identities are deeply interwoven into our dining choices, and the hipsters ostentatiously traveling across town to try jellyfish in a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant and then telling all their friends about the discovery are saying something about themselves just as surely as the young family dressing up for a night [...]

Most Americans don’t give a rip: WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say that the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama, but a substantial number say that it could influence voters this fall should he be the Democratic presidential nominee, [...]

Turkish schools in Pakistan and the battle over the gas tax in the Democratic primary. Links Mentioned: Turkish schools … Friedman on infrastructure.

Seriously, I’m stunned. Stunned that I can still be appalled by anything GWB could do/say. “President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished’ for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. “And we have [...]

I like’d Ezra Klein’s take on whether Wright would be a problem for Obama if he and Obama were white: So here’s the thought experiment: If in 2004, it turned out that John Kerry’s minister of 20 years — a man who had been like a father to him, who had married Kerry and Theresa [...]

Low on funds.

Maybe you trust this man to make smart environmental policy? I wouldn’t: Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of Brooklyn and Queens, drives a 2008 Chevrolet Impala, leased for $219 a month. Representative Michael R. McNulty, a Democrat from the Albany area, gets around in a 2007 Mercury Mariner hybrid, a sport utility vehicle, for $816 [...]