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Tim Russert: A Fox in Nipper’s Clothing
An excellent column by Paul Waldman on the Ghastliness of Tim Russert. (Note for British readers: he’s America’s version of Paxman except twice as smug and half as useful) Waldman… Continue reading
2 CommentsTory dander is up (at long last)
Today’s Tory poster for the election that never was: Yesterday’s Halloween poster is here.
0 CommentsDepartment of Road Safety and Demagoguery
If one were to compile a list of all the issues in which elite – and, er, libertarian – opinion is most completely out of touch with "ordinary" people’s concerns,… Continue reading
1 CommentHeroes of Public Diplomacy
David Frum on Karen Hughes: My column for this weekend’s National Post will try to explain why Karen Hughes so signally failed as US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy.… Continue reading
0 CommentsWhile My Guitar Gently…
I don’t even know how to play the guitar but by god I want one of these babies: Surprise: They’re from Colombia! [Also via Jewcy who, rightly, vote these cool… Continue reading
0 CommentsJust because Congress wants to forget the Armenians doesn’t mean you have to.
If you happen to be in New York City this evening and feeling in the need to get your protest on, might I suggest you join Jewcy’s Michael Weiss et… Continue reading
0 CommentsTrick or Treat or Voucher?
Megan McArdle has been on a rare old tear recently, pushing the argument for school choice, here and here and here and here and here. It will not surprise some… Continue reading
1 CommentDancing for the Queen of the Fairies
Appropriately enough – this being Halloween don’t you know- Slate has this week been running a series of dispatches from my own native heath (Part 1 here, Part 2 here… Continue reading
1 CommentA Noun, a Verb, and 9/11
Best* line of the Democratic debate? It’s not even close. Joe Biden on Rudy Giuliani: "He only uses three words in a sentence: A noun, a verb, and 9/11." *By… Continue reading
0 CommentsMedia Disappointed by Hillary’s Clear Victory…
OK, so Hillary was all over the place on whether illegal immigrants should be allowed driving licenses and, sure enough, that’s what Chris Matthews and co focus on immediately. But… Continue reading
1 Comment“End the Horror”!
November 1st would have been election day had Gordon Brown not been spooked… Here’s a poster the Tories are placing in papers around the country today: The tag-line reads: Tomorrow… Continue reading
0 CommentsObama gets angry! Or, rather, no he doesn’t…
So the first question in tonight’s Democratic debate at Drexel University goes to Barack Obama who is asked – as he must have known he would be – to outline… Continue reading
0 CommentsQuestion of the Day
Is there a specific word – or neologism – for wanting to write a blog post (or several in fact – and wanting to write them quite badly) but finding… Continue reading
1 CommentIf You Read One Post About Waterboarding
American conservatives who seem to think that waterboarding is perfectly ok – and there are, shamefully, many such people including the two leading candidates for the Republican party’s presidential nomination… Continue reading
0 CommentsRon Paul: the Housewife’s Choice?
Isaac Chotiner issues a provocation: British coverage of the United States must be really bad if William Hill have been persuaded that Ron Paul is a 12/1 shot to become… Continue reading
0 CommentsValues: An Immensely Malleable Concept
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is visiting Britain this week. Fine. These are people we need to be able to do business with, however much one might wish it otherwise.… Continue reading
0 CommentsFred Thompson, Scourge of Moonshiners
So, Fred Thompson is just a conservative good-old-boy from Tennessee whose folksy charm is his biggest selling point. OK, well then you might expect that Fred would be a champion… Continue reading
2 CommentsLindsay Lohan and William Jennings Bryan?
Someone arrived at this blog thanks to a search for: Angelina Jolie George Wallace. Readers are invited to suggest other, even more improbable, Hollywood-Politics couples in the comments section.
2 CommentsDepartment of Local Interest
Lots of talk about taxis in Washington DC and, more particularly the Mayor’s announcement that DC will switch to a meter system, abandoning the current fare tariff which is based… Continue reading
0 CommentsBut at least the trains ran on time…
Megan on the horrors of travelling in the United States these days: You know, I never really understood why making the trains run on time was so important for Mussolini,… Continue reading
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