Liberal Talk Radio

Professor — regarding the glove-offing, I respectfully submit that I think vitriol is so 2004.
Now that the war is over (to take Phil Ochs out of context — since both pro- and anti-war people are working to figure out the best way to bring the troops home, for all intents and purposes the war is [...]

Is it just me or wouldn’t you have expected the U.S. to threaten Pervez Musharraf that Pakistan would be bombed into the stone age if they didn’t stop working with the Taliban after Sept. 11? I know it’s pick-on-Richard Armitage season, but “cooperate or we’ll bomb you” is basically the definition of military deterrence . [...]

The “callous,” “totally relaxed” people depicted in the Thomas Hoepker photo email Slate to say that Frank Rich should suck it:
I am also a professional photographer and did not touch a camera that day. Why? For many reasons including a now-obvious one: This somewhat cynical expression of an assumed reality printed in the New York [...]

Wondering WTF the Israelis are thinking with this apparently over the top campaign in Lebanon? Some thoughts occurred to me, in the form of the several run-on sentences below:
Assuming that I understand the recent situation correctly, UN Security Council Resolution 1559 called for the Syrian military to leave Lebanon, and for all armed militias in [...]

In France, the disaffected riot. In America, the disaffected become first-rate comedians:
Azhar Usman, a burly American-born Muslim with a heavy black beard, says he elicits an almost universal reaction when he boards an airplane at any United States airport: conversations stop in midsentence and the look in the eyes of his fellow passengers says, “We’re [...]

My neighbors are throwing a wake tonight for one of Saturday’s shooting victims. So far, the Seattle Police Department seems more inclined to sift and analyze than panic. On the other hand, the Seattle Times Editorial Board senses a market opportunity and weighs in all Solon-like and calm:
…this event forces every parent of a teen [...]

America Coming Together: Wal-Mart courts upscale shoppers (”In its boldest effort yet to target upscale shoppers, the nation’s largest retailer is opening a new store this week with an expanded selection of high-end electronics, more fine jewelry, hundreds of types of wine ranging up to $500 a bottle, and even a sushi bar.”) while Zabar-born [...]

Atrios:
So, yes, under Reagan the federal government shrunk by a wee bit and under Bush it’s grown by a bit more but the point is the Reagan era was not a magical age of tiny government and ponies.
Hehe.

I think David Brooks makes a good point today (Time$ $elect!) about the knee-jerk response to the Islamization of our nation’s infrastructure:
This Dubai port deal has unleashed a kind of collective mania we haven’t seen in decades. First seized by the radio hatemonger Michael Savage, it’s been embraced by reactionaries of left and right, exploited [...]

Lawrence O’Donnell and Tucker Carlson were arguing about the Cheney incident last night on MSNBC. Carlson egged him on: “What could Cheney possibly have to hide?” O’Donnell didn’t mince words, calmly replying: “That he would have failed a breathalyzer test.” Straight up.
I think O’Donnell’s wrong. I doubt Cheney was drunk, even though he [...]