Don’t care. Don’t need him. He’s purely domestic, engaged in the day-to-day scrap. Power for its own sake.

I find it boring.

He’s given up the mission for the seat, mistaken the mandate for mere self-perpetuation. Ran on a plank, and then once in office sprinted away from it.

The Republicans took good [...]

Jeff Goldstein had a rather detailed post up today, outlining how the major media outlets jumped the shark on the Katrina coverage. The press put out all kinds of news, that ended up being… well: Not entirely accurate.

No bodies in the freezer at the Superdome. No little babies had their throats slit after [...]

All those interesting people marched last weekend in Our Nation’s Capital, and we’ve all had a great deal of good sport in the intervening time pointing them out, slapping our thighs and counting our blessings for political adversaries like these.

But yet, it was somehow incomplete. Something was missing, something ineffable…

Not anymore:

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According to this morning’s NYT:

After a summer of furious and steadily rising criticism, Gov. George E. Pataki evicted the proposed International Freedom Center museum yesterday from its place next to the World Trade Center memorial site. With that, the museum declared itself to be out of business.

It was always a horrible idea [...]

A light goes out… Or at the very least, it takes a sabatical.

Harry, of Harry’s Place – my very favorite post-communist, left/liberal voice of conscience, has decided to call it quits. It’s a terrible loss.

He does bow out gracefully, however – and leaves us all with much to ponder:

Of course the [...]