Liberal Talk Radio

TBS is playing a rerun of Season 4 of HBO’s Sex and the City. In Episode 64, Carrie has just broken up with Aidan and is looking to buy an apartment. The bank loan officer tells her that despite being New York Magazine’s best columnist or whatever, she’s an undesirable candidate for a loan. The [...]

“God willin’ an’ th’ crick don’ rise”, as they say, it may be all over but the hangover. In a diatribe against the GOP’s increasingly militant anti-intellectualism, David Brooks throws Sarah Palin under the bus. … over the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people who live in cities, in highly educated [...]

Will this get people paying attention to wiretap abuses at the NSA? Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer. “Hey, [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the Prof and I discussed the “Swedish option,” with respect to the bailouts. When Sweden faced a similar banking crisis over a decade ago, it nationalized its banks and saved its economy. The US plan was different. Instead of nationalizing the banks, we’d just buy up their bad assets and [...]

From Stan Greenberg’s focus group of undecided Colorado voters, as quoted by Amy Sullivan in Time: Even more dramatic was the shift in the voters’ personal reactions to the two candidates. Before the debate, McCain had a 48/46 favorability rating; that improved to 56/36 by the end. But that’s about where Obama started the evening—54/36. [...]

Maybe it’s time for Obama to give a big come-to-Jesus red state-blue state speech to explain to America the cultural milieu in Hyde Park, Chicago that allows yahoos like Bill Ayers to remain unrepentant. It could be as groundbreaking as his Philadelphia race relations explainer! Sample opener: “I have already deplored, in unequivocal terms, the [...]

For anyone who could stop Brokaw from complaining about time limits. I like answers with detail. They seem, oh, I don’t know, substantive.

Biden and Palin square off while international intrigue heats up in Africa and the Middle East. Links Mentioned: Africom … Frank Rich on Palin …

Obama’s up 10 points in Washington State, but Gregoire’s running dead even with Rossi, 48-48. Eli Sanders asks: What’s that about? Now, I may be an unfrozen caveman lawyer, but what I do know is that the Guv stopped governing a couple of years ago, afraid that if she actually did anything, Rossi might use [...]

Prescient column on the housing bubble.