At Outside the Beltway, James Joyner does everyone a favor by linking to Eric Kleefeld’s compact summary of why Sen. John McCain will have a Super-Duper Tuesday.  Unfortunately, Joyner does this as part of an analysis of the McCain-Romney tussle  called “The Conservative Minority” containing an unhealthy amount of codswallop. Joyner notes two countervailing trends — that conservatives generally prefer Romney to McCain, yet McCain is winning Republican primaries against Romney — and comes up with

Smaller glassware: Britain has won notoriety for reckless drinking among the young. Drunken, brawling teens and twentysomethings have become a familiar sight in town centers. Relaxed laws mean pubs whose opening times used to be strictly regulated can now serve drinkers round the clock. The minimum drinking age in pubs is 18, but lawmakers say the crisis of excessive drinking is no longer confined to youth. They warn a steady

Rick Perlstein characterizes Andrew Sullivan as “gauzy.”  Is that homophobic?

From The Observer: Some fighters desert from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) because they feel betrayed by the leadership, demoralised by a sense that the socialist ideals that first informed the guerrilla group have been replaced by the savage capitalism of drug trafficking. Others leave to be with their families. Still others leave because they begin to think that, if they do not, they will die. Such is

Simon Jenkins on the ancient and ferocious Taliban nation: The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, flies to Britain this week to meet a crisis entirely of London and Washington’s creation. They have no strategy for the continuing occupation of Afghanistan. They are hanging on for dear life and praying for something to turn up. Britain is repeating the experience of Gordon in Khartoum, of the Dardanelles, Singapore and Crete,

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Multiple wives means multiple benefits: Husbands with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits following a year-long Government review, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.Even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, the decision by ministers means that polygamous marriages can now be recognised formally by the state, so long as the weddings took place in countries where the arrangement is legal. The outcome will chiefly

Sen. Barack Obama has surged into a virtual tie with Sen. Hillary Clinton in California’s Democratic presidential primary, according to the latest Field Poll.  Obama’s campaign credits — get ready — organization: Obama’s California campaign team said the latest polls reflect a hard-charging effort to track down potential voters in every precinct – undeterred by polls that showed the Illinois senator behind by double digits here for most of the race. “If we hadn’t laid

It seems as though some of America’s most preeeminent politicians, while out on the campaign trail, might want to spare a few minutes to brush up on their Dale Carnegie.  On the Democratic side, Bill Clinton is going on his “don’t call it a mea culpa” tour of black churches today.  The Clintons have to be smarting a bit that Sen. Ted Kennedy has swung his full corpulence behind Sen.

I doubt the IP address resolves to Brazil — or Sweden – but I had to chuckle.