Politics

QUIP OF THE DAY….Via Punditwatch, here is Al Hunt on Miguel Estrada’s refusal to respond to questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee: He’s a guy who wouldn’t even express the view of any Supreme Court decision. I mean, at least he could say Dred Scott was a bad, bad decision, it seems to me.

“PEACE IN OUR TIME”….Here’s something I’m curious about. This Reuters picture has been posted a bunch of places in the blogosphere, always with the implication that the kids holding this poster must be really stupid. Don’t they know that “Peace in our time” has been considered the ultimate expression of appeasement in the face of […]

NEWS FROM SPAIN….Jose of News from Spain ? a really terrific looking blog that I, unfortunately, can’t read a word of ? writes to comment on the crowd count from Madrid and Barcelona: Madrid had a turnout of 1.700.000-2.000.000 people. Why the difference from the “official” 600.000 and Barcelona’s 1.300.000? The comment author at Atrios’ […]

GOOGLE BUYS BLOGGER….So Google is buying Pyra Labs, hosts of the fine blog you’re reading right now. Pyra owner Evan Williams had this to say on his personal weblog: Holy crap. Note to self: When you get off this panel, you should probably comment on this. “This panel” refers to an LA blog event held […]

U.S. UNILATERALISM….As a followup to the previous post, Matt Yglesias remarks today on just one of the potential problems of U.S. unilateralism. Responding to Condoleezza Rice’s assertion that other countries should be helping out more with North Korea, he says: It’s worth noting that this sort of free rider problem is the flipside of American […]

ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS….All mockery and sarcasm and horn-tooting from both camps aside, yesterday’s anti-war demonstrations were really impressive. Jeanne d’Arc has a great roundup of the crowd count around the world, but the count from the big cities alone gives you a taste for just how big this was: London: 1 million Rome: 2 million New […]

SHORTER STEVEN DEN BESTE….WEST COAST EDITION….Apparently D? insists on taking weekends off ? lazy sod ? so can I take a crack at one? A Coast Guard ship with cool machine guns is in the Gulf and that means we’re reallyreallyreally close to war! Hey, that was fun! And note that I included a permalink […]

MORE ON THE ANTI-WAR PROTESTS….And speaking of conservo-libertarian-warhawkish responses to the anti-war protests, here is Megan McArdle with a different view: Anti-war protesters are great. I disagree with them, and I really, really disagree with letting ANSWER organize their rallies, but I think having people who are willing to stand out in the cold to […]

ANTI-WAR PROTESTS….The warhawks are in full-court mockery mode over the anti-war protests. As Tom Spencer puts it: You sure can tell the pro-war folks are getting a bit desperate, aren’t they? And Kieran Healy suggests that conservatives ought to be a little more trusting of all those people who, under other circumstances, make the free […]

THOSE EURO-LOVING BUSHIES….I’ve been meaning to congratulate Windy City bloggers Jacob Levy and Dan Drezner for landing monthly columns at The New Republic Online, so let me take the opportunity right now. It’s good to see smart bloggers get recognized, although I hope this doesn’t mean that we will be losing Dan to the insidious […]