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Or everything you want it to be. First, this surprising statistic in a story about Afghanistan:
Statistically it is now nearly as dangerous to serve as an American soldier in Afghanistan as it is in Iraq.
Which means that a) Afghanistan is getting more and more dangerous, b) Iraq is less dangerous than previously believed, c) Americans [...]

While the Democrats spend millions and millions trying to come up with a message, Charles Barkley comes in and does their job for them:
I was a Republican–until they lost their minds.”
Need we say more?
(via (TNR)

Not to pile on Hillary (following Bruno), but her McCain-esque* triangulation on flag burning — damn you dirty hippies and your lighter fluid! — is apparently pleasing absolutely no one:
Perhaps even more than her stance on the war in Iraq, it is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s position on flag desecration that has drawn the scorn [...]

The Google Conceit didn’t last long for the internet giant — reports suggest that Google may be rethinking bending their principles to accommodate China*:
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding [...]

John McCain shows us how it’s done. First, snag a New York Daily News headline of “McCain sez ‘I don’t’ to backing constitutional ban on gay nups”:
The Republican with the loudest presidential buzz says he won’t back a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, despite its importance to conservative GOP primary voters.
Arizona Sen. John McCain said [...]

This is one of those articles that reminds you how truly bizarre our spin-obsessed White House has become in putting message over action. For example, you’d think that the former budget director, Josh Bolten, now chief of staff, would make it a priority to strengthen the economy. But that would be too hard! [...]

On the heels of Bruno’s noticing how wrong pundits got the invasion of Iraq comes David Brooks’ column today on how the pundits actually got it all right (dastardly Time$ $elect!). Go figure:
Some weeks nothing happens; some weeks change history. The week of March 24, 2003, was one of those pivotal weeks. U.S. troops had [...]

Reports that Google will provide a Chinese-safe search engine are certainly ominous. Google officials anticipated criticism and explained themselves, in the process establishing the Google Conceit:
“While removing search results is inconsistent with Google’s mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission,” a [...]

Damn. I spent a lot of time in the past defending Joe Lieberman. But the guy really makes himself harder and harder to defend.
Maybe I’m the idiot.

When I first read this, my first reaction was, “I can’t believe no one’s made this into a West Wing script.
But it turns out there’s an even more interesting story behind this.