Liberal Talk Radio

To answer your question Matski: Nothing. Nothing’s going on. You heard it here first (or, like 20th): The Kerry flap has little to no effect on what happens on Tuesday. A few reasons: 1. Too little. If Kerry were on the ballot — if this were 2004 again — it would’ve cost him a coupla [...]

Speaking of bullshit, this Lawrence Kaplan piece in TNR, self-indulgently entitled “The Bush Doctrine Must Survive the Iraq War,” definitely qualifies. I was with Larry Kaplan — and I might still be with him on this — when he wrote a piece earlier this year called “The Case for Staying in Iraq.” That piece was [...]

This is the most ridiculous shit we have yet to see from this administration– and that’s quite an honor, given the prolific quantities of ridiculous bullshit these guys have thrown at us over the last 6 years. “We will stay the course. We will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed,” he said in Salt Lake [...]

Amit Paley’s piece in the Post on a funeral for an American soldier in Iraq is worth reading. His commanders gave Airman 1st Class LeeBernard E. Chavis the proud emblem of their squadron — a blue-and-yellow flag known as a guidon — because they knew he would rather die than lose it. The 21-year-old District [...]

Barack Obama is changing his tune– if only slightly. At the very least, he’s keeping his options open. The day after he handily won election to the Senate to represent the state of Illinois, Obama was clear about his presidential intentions: “I am not running for president. I am not running for president in four [...]

God came down decisively on the side of the New York Mets tonight, sending enough rain to St. Louis to cancel game 5 of the NLCS and finally putting to rest any questions about His loyalties in the World Series. The soon-to-be World Champion Mets’ key starter, Tommy Glavine, will get an extra day of [...]

A few days ago, I mentioned in a roundabout way that this week was supposed to be all-Woodward-all-the-time, since his devastating (to the Bushies) new book hit the shelves on Monday. Well lemme tell you something– Woodward’s pissed. Woodward doesn’t give a shit about Mark Foley (cave dwellers– see here). Woodward’s got books to sell. [...]

So the Wall Street Journal editorial board is pretty much getting at same thing here: “Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert’s head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men [...]

This is a questionable strategy: “I don’t think that there’s anyone who grew up around the South that hasn’t had the word pass through their lips at one time in their life,” he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Tuesday. “If you read ‘Fields of Fire,’ that word and a lot of other words are in [...]

As George Allen’s unannoucned-but-widely-presumed candidacy for the GOP nomination for president of the United States rapidly implodes, James Carville (if he’s not in his native Louisiana watching the Saints whoop up on the Falcons) must be preparing a tactful, if slightly satisfying speech to his wife, Mary Matalin, the powerhouse GOP operative who signed on [...]