The New Republic

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The Kingmaker: Is Obama Wasting His Time Trying To Court The Saudis? by Michael Crowley Is Enough Being Done To Help The Victims Of Predatory Lending Schemes? by Alex Ulam READ MORE >>

A lot of the handwringing over Obama's bungling of health care reminds me of all the handwringing a year ago this time over his bungling of the campaign. In other words, I think it's overwrought if not completely wrong. But then I read an article like this one in today's WaPo and I start to wonder: READ MORE >>

When last we checked in with Redstate.com's Erick Erickson, he was loudly threatening to make reported Palin naysayers from the McCain campaign--Steve Schmidt, Nicolle Wallace, Mark McKinnon--"political lepers" by mobilizing his readers to work against any candidate foolish enough to hire them in the future. READ MORE >>

Living in a blue state, it's easy to forget that the issue of reproductive rights is far from settled. Efforts to chip away at a woman's right to control her own body continue apapce--and with impressive creativity--in plenty of red states.  Happily, one such effort just met its demise in Oklahoma.  Here's hoping South Dakota's noxious "disclosure" law suffers a similar fate.  --Michelle Cottle READ MORE >>

I admit it: I have no idea WTF MoDowd is trying to get at--or who she's taking a shot at--with today's column.   Horny men? Needy women? Scorned wives? Heartless gigolos? Mercenary madames? Anyone care to take a stab at interpretation? --Michelle Cottle READ MORE >>

Michael Goldfarb is admirably upfront about the rank dishonesty of his own party, even if he is rooting for more of it: READ MORE >>

From the NY Observer Jason Horowitz's profile of a trio of New York Democratic consultants, one of whom is Josh Isay: READ MORE >>

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It looks like the right-wing push to get senior citizens to leave the AARP because the organization supports much of Obama's plan for health care reform (I wrote about this last week) READ MORE >>