Obama Dictates His Terms

So, I’m scanning the AP wire, and I note a story moving under the heading:

“Obama names Republicans he’ll work with “

Well, says I, this should be mildly amusing..

“There are some very capable Republicans who I have a

As regards the betting pools that have popped up for when Fidel Castro begins his stay in one of the few places I can think of that warmer than Cuba, I’ll add my comments.
Rumors and indications notwithstanding, there’s no

The biggest foreign policy disaster in the history of this country, bar none, was Jimmy Carter.

On that basis, it strikes me as damning with faint praise that Zbigniew Brzezinski the man who help to implement that unmitigated disaster, has

I’m going to say this at the outset, I think there are probably microbes on whale crap at the bottom of the ocean that are higher in the food chain than Bill Maher. I think it’s a measure of how

Email from several sources:

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in Iraq, here’s a sobering statistic: There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last

Passed on from email without comment…

A United States Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and!
French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group

Captain Ed notes something odd, but not unexpected, in Florida:

For once, Howard Dean is right, and he’s likely to pay a large price for it.  Dean warned Florida Democrats that he would refuse to certify their delegates at

The story of Cpl. Dale A. Burger Jr is a story of duty, honor and sacrifice. A young leader so concerned with his men he refused to stay out of combat even though wounded, and ended up making the

Matt Stoller, idiot extraordinaire, has decided to declare war on centrist Democrats.

We’ve been working to identify the group of conservative Democrats in the House who are holding back progressives from being able to effectively govern. These are concentrated

Memorandum is abuzz with blogs repoting the death Fidell Castro, as if a dead man could die. Here is Perez Hilton:

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that U.S. officials will be holding a press conference shortly to announce the death