I read the opening lines of Calvin Trillin's op-ed -- written in June 2006, but featured on the NYT website this morning as an op-ed "classic": MY excitement at the news that Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat of Connect…
This leaves me feeling shocked in retrospect, so I can't imagine how it must have felt to the Senators as they listened to Ben Bernanke's warnings : “When you listened to him describe it you gulped," said Senator Cha…
It's an interesting fight -- about whether DailyKos is so vile that the Democratic candidates should not appear at the YearlyKos convention. Both men do their thing -- reasonably adequately. O'Reilly tries to create an e…
Said Obama . "There are terrorists holed up in those mountains... If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will." This flung open a door to criticis…
I wasn't going to write about this post by Ian Schwartz, because it involves something I consider to be an old blogosphere flame war . I decided not to talk about it when I saw it yesterday, but now I see Glenn is talking ab…