There was no way Scooter was going to jail. And he knew it all along. He wasn't happy, but he wasn't scared. He trusted in the legendary loyalty of the Bush royal family. And he was right to.
Since Scooter scooted out of jail Hillary has settled on a tactic she's been experimenting with for a long time. Can she make radical-sounding red-m...
Fred is so complete a honking phony. He's a walking parody of gravitas. The ultimate empty suit.
Conservative intellectuals don't believe in democracy in the sense that they don't believe that ordinary people are as important as they themselves are.
He joshes with the press, but not in that mean bully way. He's SO nice to them. Gee, maybe I've been wrong about him? Maybe I will support the war now. He's SO nice.
This war has been a massive exercise in national narcissism from the beginning. How fitting that efforts to bring it an end must feed the same appetite.
The people listed have all been brass-balls willing to send working class men and women volunteers to kill and die -- but they have risked nothing themselves. Call it The DisHonor Roll.
So Mike Barnacle was joshing with his guests on Hardball this evening about the kerfuffle between Hillary and the Pentagon over her query concerning c...
In the most recent edition of NYRB is the best summary of the situation in Iraq I've read. It's a mainstream liberal point of view -- but for cogency and impact it can't be beat.
I wonder what a qualified professional would make of this spectacle if he or she were to analyze Gonzales's behavior at these hearings in detail?
