Delicious Bass

The inimitable Charles Pierce, corresponding at Media Matters, reacts the the WaPo's staggering expose of the Cheney presidency. I was s...

Professor Cole again plainly states the confusion and complication that we face in Iraq. Clearly, there are so many moving parts there, and...

You really get a good sense of the pathetic yin and yang of the executive branch of our government today. In one corner is the idiot king, w...

Sy Hersh on Antonio Taguba . It'll make you proud to be a 'mericun.

Juan Cole has two good items regarding the Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan and the overall Turkish attitude towards the Kurds harbor...

This post at Whiskey Fire tears apart the spurious argument that "liberal hawks", whatever that means, are intellectually dishone...

Cooler than the other side of the pillow, here's Joan Armatrading doing a jam version of Cool Blue Stole My Heart from 1979. A master of...

Will Bunch at Attytood has a frightening take on the replacement of Peter Pace as head of the Joint Chiefs on Friday. He wonders whether Pa...

Digby has a depressing post up surrounding our national attention span and willingness to focus on the trivial rather than the tragic conse...

Tbogg gets all Steve Gilliard-like on Bill Kristol today. Good for the soul. These are the consequences of the actions and chest-thumping p...

Steve Gilliard is dead . I don't know these people, I don't pretend to. But I am moved by his death, because he was such a passionat...

Ahh, the magic of the internets....youtube mashup of an anti bush screed and son volt. Two of my favorite indulgences.

This post by Glenn Greenwald ought to be game set and match for Fred Thompson's nascent campaign. It perfectly highlights the craving o...

Jeffrey Goldberg on the Republican Implosion . Every member of the proud 28% should read this. Not since Watergate, Gingrich said, has the R...

I don't fear a Giuliani candidacy for a number of reasons, one being that he's walking a fine line when he builds his case for forei...

This is a common symptom of the right's wrongheaded thinking on our current situation in Western Asia. It is the underlying theme of mo...

Bob Kerry, who has been wrong about just about everything since 2003 (see ThinkProgress, here ), has a bizarre editorial in the WSJ today ba...

In one compact post , Digby refutes just about every argument that this administration can or would put forward to justify their foreign pol...

Heading off for an Indian Princess weekend in the Poconos. I'll leave you with the great Shane MacGowan and the Pogues (with Kirsty MacC...

There's no question that this post about the testimony by Deputy AG James Comey before the Senate Judiciary Committee today points to a...