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Brendan Bernhard New York Sun : "....ironist — someone who says things she doesn't mean and (through moreor-less subtle contextual ...

Bush's : The BBC has been told by a senior administration source that the speech setting out changes in Mr Bush's Iraq policy is li...

Kargro X rightly calls it escalation, but I generally refer to plans such as this one by Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan as the "Re...

...I concur with this one at least "We have a classic case of circling the wagons," says a former adviser to Bush the elder. ...

Fans of Marc Maron's hilarious radio work can rejoice. As Maron put it in an email announcement: My buddy Patrick has created a stream ...

What's this about? Click here or check Digby here . AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl AZ-01: Rick Renzi AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth CA-04: John Doolittle CA-11:...

Tristero at Digby's Hullabaloo presents a delicious irony with a creamy sulfuric acid center: "Poor Chris Hitchens. There isn'...

NPR : Pentagon Iran Office Mimics Former Iraq Office The Pentagon has created a new desk to work on Iran policy. That worries some at the C...

It's fairly obvious by now that, once again, the Republicans don't want accurate intelligence about a problematic country: they want...

From the comments at Harry Hutton's excellent place , David C crystallizes the issue: "Why can't these terror chaps target the...

Matt Taibi : The DLC are the lowest kind of scum; we're talking about people who are paid by the likes of Eli Lilly and Union Carbide to...

Any guesses why I've thought of Lebanon Bologna recently? Heed this comment on that page: "Sweet mother of God, if you're goin...

Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki addresses Congress today. Send us more of your soldiers to die and be maimed for Iraq! Send us more of your tax...

I've been reminded of this old story quite a bit recently. True 'dat.

If you're like me, you've been looking for the email that crazy Dr. Nicholas Bartha wrote before he (allegedly) blew up his Manhatt...

Stephen Colbert gave the commencement address at Knox College yesterday. It's up in full on the College's website, and it's goo...

Glenn Reynolds , Disgusting. I'd like to add that if Iraq-war critics were to follow Reynold's logic, then he and his cohorts callin...

I heard David Brooks on PBS Newshour tonight say (in paraphrase) it was commendable that Bush stuck with his principles on immigration, rath...

Beginning tonight, BBC America is airing The Thick of It , a political satire -- and a satire about the workings of politics -- that hits th...