Ed Kilgore

Raffaele Esposito/Flickr After a generally very successful visit to the United States, Pope Francis dropped this little love bomb during an interview as he jetted back to Rome, per Reuters: Although the Argentine-born pontiff delved into some of the United States’ thorniest political debates during his visit, he never specifically referred to a controversy over […]

Gage Skidmore/Flickr It’s going to be interesting to see exactly when the constant, cicada-like grinding of Too early too early too early emanating from multiple corners of academia and the punditry with respect to the GOP presidential nominating contest finally begin to fade as we approach the Iowa Caucuses. Presumably it will start to happen […]

Gage Skidmore/Flickr Notwithstanding the vaguely sacrilegious atonement rhetoric surrounding John Boehner’s resignation, the ill winds of division and destruction have not been dispelled from Washington by the Orange Man’s allegedly self-sacrificing decision to get a head start on his lobbying career after a year’s respite of sun and fun at his golf resort condo in […]

Bryan Ferry turned 70 over the weekend. Here’s Roxy Music with my favorite tune from their first album: “The Bob,” which is reportedly a reference to the 1968 movie The Battle of Britain.

So I’m going to have a drink with my favorite Georgia football blogger tonight. One good thing about living where I do is that everybody comes out here eventually. Here are some remains of the day: * McCarthy almost certain Boehner successor, but there will be a “scramble” for other leadership positions. * Rep. Bob […]

Now that she’s a top-tier presidential candidate, Carly Fiorina is finally getting some media scrutiny over her record in the gig that supposedly made her presidential material, as short-lived and then “viciously” (as Donald Trump put it) fired CEO of HP. But according to Eli Stokols of Politico, it’s reporters, not voters, who are asking […]

On the same day that Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis got to speak at the Values Voters Summit in DC, she made known the least surprising news imaginable: she and her husband are switching to the Republican Party. Now I don’t know a whole lot about Davis’ background, and particularly how long she has […]

Maybe it’s because he’s running second or third in recent polls of the GOP presidential nomination contest, or maybe it’s because of his comments about Muslims–at least those who don’t follow some prescribed ritual of repudiating Shariah Law–not being acceptable as presidents, but Dr. Ben Carson’s Seventh-Day Adventist background is finally getting some media attention. […]

I seem now to be on Politico‘s regular list of people they ask for insta-reactions to news developments, this time the Boehner resignation. So I wrote another snarky reply to a breathless question about the Institution of the Speakerhood, about which we are all supposed to be worrying today. Here are some Friday midday news/views […]

Man, Republicans just can’t help themselves, can they? Here’s Jebbie in South Carolina talking about reaching out to African-American voters, per a report from WaPo’s Sean Sullivan: “Look around this room,” a man told Bush, who spoke to a mostly white crowd. “How many black faces do you see? How are you going to include […]