Ed Kilgore

For Columbus Day, here’s some vintage Italian rock and roll: Le Orme with “Ad Gloriam.”

For Columbus Day, here’s some vintage Italian rock, from Le Orme, 1969’s “Ad Glorium.”

Despite last Saturday’s catastrophe, I will again don red and black and make barking noises at the television as Georgia plays Tennessee, but with trepidation. Here are some remains of the day: * So yep, looks like a weekend of mystery about Paul Ryan’s relative willingness to accept gavel as Speaker. * House GOPers quietly […]

It’s been a good while since we checked in on the Canadian elections, which are culminating a week from Monday. What had been a close three-way race involving Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Tories, the lefty New Democratic Party, and the center-left Liberals is now devolving into a more traditional Tory/Liberal contest with the NDP fading […]

Okay, it’s time for our semi-regular Friday feature wherein readers share musical discoveries with each other. Go to it!

Up until now, Dr. Ben Carson has had an extraordinarily charmed existence on the presidential campaign trail. Even though his world-view is weird and John Birchie, political reporters either don’t notice it or don’t think it’s important. Fellow GOP candidates give him a wide berth, and conservative activists tend either to adore him or only […]

You know, it’s looking like one of those Fridays when the opportunity to drift away from anything to do with Washington until Monday couldn’t come fast enough. Here are some midday news/views treats: * Interesting timing: discharge petition aimed at saving Eximbank moving towards the requisite number in the House. * Another weird angle in […]

As you may have noticed, the signals were strong enough this morning that I felt confident in echoing predictions that Paul Ryan would bend to the inevitable and announce he’s accept the House Speakership by supper-time. But now there’s chaos within the chaos. Darrell Issa said he’d talked to Ryan and figured everybody’s favorite Speaker […]

With all the excitement going on this week, I totally missed the fact that my favorite Republican presidential candidate, the Gret Stet of Loosiana’s Bobby Jindal, released a tax plan, or at least a tax-based messaging document. WaPo’s Catherine Rampell informs us it’s everything you’d expect from the candidate who’s offering the GOP Trumpism Without […]

Regular readers know that I believe the overriding political phenomenon of our era is the conquest of the Republican Party by a radicalized conservative movement. That’s particularly important since the Republican Party itself is a presidential election away from potentially enjoying total power over the federal government. So none of the insanity in the House […]