Ed Kilgore

Marc Nozell/Flickr So this kinda summarizes the laughable depths to which the the Biden Presidential Story has now descended (per Politico‘s Tom McGeveran): The Washington Post published an item Monday evening to its website with the headline “Biden to launch a presidential campaign.” But even the fast clickers were disappointed to reach a page on […]

All the trend lines showing the Liberals gaining and the New Democrats slipping intensified as Canadians voted yesterday, producing a surprisingly big win and a majority of seats in the House of Commons. This ends Stephen Harper’s nine-year run as Prime Minister and makes 43-year old Justin Trudeau (son of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau) the […]

Ragtime great Jelly Roll Morton was born on this day 130 years ago, in New Orleans. In honor of our friends to the North who held their national election yesterday, we’ll feature Morton performing Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Stomp.”

Have to say, my Georgia Bulldogs won a game over the weekend that was so bad I almost wish I hadn’t seen it. It’s a perfectly timed bye week now. Could be a lot worse. I could be a Michigan fan. Condolences to the Wolverines for an unimaginable game-ending disaster. Here are some remains of […]

At a time when this ideology that calls itself “constitutional conservatism” demands that we all confine our imaginations of how American government should function to the Founders’ intentions (with a little retroactive Christian Nationalism minus the entrenchment of slavery), it’s important to remember that in response to the trauma of the Civil War, there was […]

Until Hillary Clinton’s testimony before the Benghazi! Committee on Thursday is over, I wouldn’t be as confident as TNR’s Brian Beutler–or more accurately, the person at TNR who imposes headlines on Brian’s fine work—that the whole witch-hunt is on the brink of backfiring and may soon be downplayed if not abandoned by embarrassed Republicans. Indeed, […]

Maryland GovPics/Flickr As you probably recall, an important ingredient in all the political science models for presidential elections is the incumbent president’s approval ratings–certainly in a reelection contest, but even when the incumbent is leaving office. As at this point four years ago, chronically poor job approval ratings for Barack Obama, reflected in a big […]

We had us a pretty big power outage on the Monterey Peninsula yesterday, and until late last night I had no access to the internet or phone service. I accidentally made up for it by posting the Daylight Video in the middle of the night. We should be back to normalcy by tomorrow. Here are […]

Gage Skidmore/Flickr At Think Progress today, Jodd Legum did something devilish and useful: listing 33 examples of someone in the chattering classes announcing “the beginning of the end” for Donald Trump’s presidential boom (or perhaps his entire campaign) at various moments during the 91 days he’s led the RCP polling average for GOP presidential candidates. […]

So NBC is reporting that Joe Biden’s finally going to announce he’s running or not running for president within the next 48 hours. Yeah, it’s about time the word came from the vice president rather than the shadowy army of retainers and “close friends” and wannabe friends and Hillary-haters and Republicans and all the journalists […]