Liberal Talk Radio

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 [...]

Although I think it’s interesting and important to have a public conversation about the best way to deal with the terrorist threat, I wonder if we would be as vocal about rights, wiretapping, extraordinary rendition and everything else if Bush wasn’t in power. The issue seems to be boiled down to this: How the measure [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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, [...]

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 [...]

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.