Undercover Blue

Slate's Fred Kaplan uses a recently released transcript of a pre-Iraq invasion conversation between President Bush and Spain's then-...

Rick Perlstein and I seem to be on the same page. He shows how far we've come. We once welcomed the leader of the USSR with salutes and ...

Reading Slate this morning, it seems this guy has a future in our office of faith-based initiatives: Most of the papers front Iranian Pres...

Still locked in my lab-or-a-tory working on "Project X." Meanwhile, Digby wonders why the GOP can hop about the media altar, slas...

Once again, the last stall in the men's room yields blog fodder. No Bible tracts or printouts from NewsMax this time, but the August 200...

what is "dead"? From today's L.A. Times : WASHINGTON -- -- For more than four years since the invasion of Iraq, President Bush...

and Talking Points Memo in the Columbia Journalism Review . A good read on an important site(s). [h/t atonemusic]

Glenn Greenwald's Thursday appearance in Asheville, NC has been postponed.

They believed cooperation and compromise signaled weakness . . . they viewed every encounter outside the innermost core of most trusted advi...

What you'll hear on the Iraq situation depends on who's mining the statistics? Go figure. From this morning's WaPo : The U.S. mi...

In the aftermath of the Utah mine disaster, after several more minors died in the rescue, the mine owner halted digging operations, eventual...

Intermittent blogging continues as my other project consumes my time. Meanwhile, at the LA Times : "Is it wise to use civilian contract...

it means just what we choose it to mean, neither more nor less." From this morning's WaPo : Iraq has failed to meet all but three o...

. . . seen last night on a church billboard in Greenville, SC, the epicenter of church marquee wisdom. Amen.

. . . where everything's made up and the facts don't matter. Responding to President Bush's latest rewrite of history, Mahablog...

In today's L.A. Times Newt Gingrich challenges presidential candidates of both major parties to new "Lincoln-Douglas" style d...

The good doctor is bringing Glenn Greenwald to town: Glenn Greenwald coming to Asheville Posted by: ecthompson Glenn Greenwald The Errington...

Weekends are when I normally get in some more lengthy, thought-out pieces. Right now, however, I'm trying to get a non-blogging politica...

Trying to get at the truth in the domestic surveillance lawsuits is tough when anything you say can or even remember may be declared a state...

Will someone please get the government off Chinese manufacturers' back? The Los Angeles Times explains the recent trend : First it was t...