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Michael Tomasky analyzes the political logic of red state Democrats: READ MORE >>

The surviving gunman in the terrorist attacks on Bombay has given testimony to an Indian court. This, from The New York Times' story, was astonishing: Mr. Kasab and his friend went to Rawalpindi, he said, and asked in the market where they might find mujahedeen. They were directed to the office of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Indian and American investigators say that Lashkar-e-Taiba planned the attacks in Pakistan. READ MORE >>

Ed Kilgore is managing editor of The Democratic Strategist, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, and a frequent contributor to a variety of political journals.   READ MORE >>

From Fox News: A steam-powered, biomass-eating military robot being designed for the Pentagon is a vegetarian, its maker says. READ MORE >>

In my story on the Boston mayoral race, I mentioned that Sam Yoon--one of the candidates trying to unseat the four-term incubment Tom Menino--talks about Seattle as a sort of urban planning nirvana. When I asked him if there was any city Boston might model itself after, he replied in almost dreamy voice: "I think about Seattle." READ MORE >>

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Today, President Obama met with Thomas S. Monson (above), the president of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). READ MORE >>

Joe Klein has a good roundup of recent chatter about Jim Jones and Bob Woodward, Hillary Clinton and Sid Blumenthal. It's an entertaining parlor game, but ultimately I'm not sure what it all means. I've been working on a piece about the foreign policy machine which you can read soon, but ultimately it seems to me--as Klein also notes--that all the debate about who's up and who's down is curiously detached from actual outcomes. READ MORE >>

So good, in fact, that it should be the headline for every Weekly Standard article: --Jonathan Chait READ MORE >>