The Beck Supremacy
So Much Gasbaggery, So Little Time
Life Just Got a Lot Harder for Arkansas Inmates
The most obvious tragedy of the Washington police shootings is the deaths of the four police officers. The fact that the suspected gunman is a convicted felon from Arkansas whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted by then-Governor Mike Huckabee in 2000 is a tragedy for anyone currently in prison in Arkansas who might hope to one day receive executive clemency. Just consider what happened in Massachusetts after Willie Horton. READ MORE >>
The Next Paris Hilton?
Last week, I clicked over to the CNN home page and there, in a rundown of the day’s most important news, I saw a headline announcing that Nicole Richie had pneumonia. I immediately thought of Sarah Palin: I fully expect that, five or ten or 15 years from now, I’ll be reading a similar headline about her. READ MORE >>
Toomey's Two-Step
Congressional Quarterly's Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for the Democratic Party. Which makes me again wonder whether it was a mistake for Obama to encourage Specter's defection.** READ MORE >>
Why Charlie Baker Is No Mitt Romney
Charlie Baker is a moderate Republican businessman who's running for Massachusetts Governor. In other words, he's got a lot in common with Mitt Romney--or at least the version of Mitt Romney who existed before he thought he needed to be a lot more conservative in order to win the GOP's presidential nomination. READ MORE >>
Who You Calling Illegitimate?
I was pretty shocked by this new poll that found that 52 percent of Republican voters think ACORN stole the 2008 presidential election for Obama. I wanted to get some perspective, though, so I looked for polls that assessed voters' feelings about the 2000 elections. I figured that, even with hanging chads and all, fewer Democratic voters would have considered Bush illegitimate back then than those Republicans who now feel that way about Obama. READ MORE >>
How Do You Say 'Reset' in Pashto?
The WaPo's Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that the Obama administration has decided to try a little tenderness with Hamid Karzai: READ MORE >>
Rudy Don't Wanna Run Nothing But His Mouth
Just to follow up on Crowley's post, now that Giuliani's abandoned Senate and Gubernatorial runs, I think it's past time that we repurposed Marion Barry's old line about Jesse Jackson. READ MORE >>
NYT Columnists -- They're Just Like Us!
My wife was recently given the strange gift of a two-year subscription to US Weekly. (The gift was made even stranger by the fact she has no idea who gave it to her.) Which means that not only do I now know who Josh Duhamel is, but I also know about the allegedly rocky state of his marriage to Fergie owing to an Atlanta stripper's claim that she and Duhamel had a fling. But I digress. READ MORE >>
