an imaginary Soviet. Why the hell can’t the Dems give us any candidates who aren’t compulsive (and rather stupid) liars? UPDATE: Just for the howls, I’m going to dub this restructuring of reality “barrystroika.” Also, you can consider this as supplementary to Karl’s post, above.

Here’s a list of this summer’s blockbuster wannabes, and if anything, it looks worse than usual.  Setting aside the few that already have been released, feel free to prognosticate which will be the greatest craptacle of all.

Moreover, The New Yorker’s George Packer does so in a way that makes Andrew Sullivan a little uncomfortable: He is, in the terms of my article, a purist rather than a reformist, but his unhappiness with the movement is so great that it’s driven him into the arms of his exact opposite, Barack Obama, who is philosophically liberal and temperamentally conservative. Excitable Andy responds: It’s a little hard to know

Manifest Destiny meets Quantum Leap, as pw heads back to his childhood home of Baltimore, then to Maryland’s eastern shore, for a week of extra-large mosquitoes; overly officious, gardenia-scented relatives; sandy-crotched Mossimo bathing suits; imported blue crab; and — if everything goes as planned — some giant stuffed animal of as yet undetermined genus to be poached and dragged screaming back here to the mountains, earned by way of a

Hey, look! They’ve turned Greenwald into a computer program.

MSNBC, CBS News and ABC News are among those dutifully transcribing Barack Obama’s latest attack on John McCain: “Today, John McCain is having a different kind of meeting. He’s holding a fundraiser with George Bush behind closed doors in Arizona. No cameras. No reporters,” Obama said before a town hall in Las Vegas, “And we all know why. Senator McCain doesn’t want to be seen, hat-in-hand, with the President whose failed

(a serr8d joint) OMFG, is this racist! Well a wegro is a person in your neigborhood . . .

Douglas J. Feith has a piece in the Wall Street Journal on “How Bush Sold the War,” which argues that President Bush’s focus on promoting democracy in Iraq has been a grave error: In the fall of 2003, a few months after Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, U.S. officials began to despair of finding stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The resulting embarrassment caused a radical shift in administration rhetoric about

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), has an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal arguing that the GOP faces electoral disaster in November because the party is in denial of the simple fact that its officeholders have stopped acting like Republicans: Becoming Republicans again will require us to come to grips with what has ailed our party – namely, the triumph of big-government Republicanism and failed experiments like the K Street Project

Although Dan quick-linked it earlier, the article in The New Republic by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank on the jihadist revolt against al Qaeda now has a companion piece by Lawrence Wright in the new issue of The New Yorker.  There is some overlap, though there is enough difference to warrant reading both. Themes common to both articles are that al Qaeda faces a revolt because the group’s extremism results in violence to (and