Liberal Talk Radio

Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s famous campaign manager and king of the ‘netroots’, is joining the Edwards campaign. This makes me wonder, does Edwards’ continued presence help Hillary? And if so, is that poetic justice for the man who would have been the nominee in 2004? Back in 2004, Will Saletan argued that Wes Clark did [...]

When discussing political moves where there may be “more than meets the eye,” The Chief usually reminds me of the West Wing episode where President Bartlett, speaking to a TV show, “forgets” that the camera’s still recording and calls his opponent a “.22 caliber mind in a .357 world.” It later becomes clear that Bartlett [...]

According to David Postman, SEIU president Andy Stern is forming a Political Action Committee. Anyone still doubt this guy has political ambitions? Here’s a great quote from Postman’s interview: “We’re not going to drive into the future looking into the rear view mirror. We’re as far today from the New Deal as the New Deal [...]

Every once in a while Byron York reprints raw poll numbers in National Review’s The Corner that blow your mind. Today there are some numbers that in part confirm a scenario benefitting an independent candidate for President. Basically, for Presidential hopefuls, the only thing worse than being Mormon is if you are an atheist or [...]

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 [...]

I got a chance to see The Last King of Scotland the other day (it opens sometime next week) and although I shouldn’t be guessing Oscar stuff — especially this early and especially because I usually suck at it — you can’t help but think that Forest Whitaker will win for his depiction of Ugandan [...]

Not to diminish what is a very, very good thing — and even as a casual news observer, I was excited about it — but is it possible that the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was facilitated by events way beyond U.S. or legitimate Iraqi control? As in what may have happened with Saddam’s sons, [...]

Apropos of nothing — except maybe stuff like this or this — I think there is a plausible scenario in which a third-party or independent candidate could possibly win the 2008 Presidential election, but it has to go down like this: Mitt Romney as Republican candidate would be attractive to conservatives and moderates but his [...]

Could this really be true? The White House is looking at a list of cost-cutting candidates to head the Office of Management and Budget, and Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, may be on it. The former House majority leader, who announced he will resign from Congress and is under a state indictment on political money laundering [...]

A worthwhile disinformation campaign cannot be accomplished without The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh. And while you’re at it, let him write that they’re considering nuclear weapons. The Iranians will s**t themselves: The Pentagon adviser on the war on terror confirmed that some in the Administration were looking seriously at this option, which he linked to [...]