The Left-on-Left attacks continue.  Author Jane Smiley reads Lawrence O’Donnell’s HuffPo post calling John Edwards a “loser” and is not pleased: I am fairly sure in my own mind that Karl Rove paid him to write that post. Indeed, she thought she would discover that O’Donnell was a Republican, which she does not even realize is hilarious, given his reputation as a shrieking moonbat.  Then again, Smiley is not known

by oldest trick in the book: Discussing the one-year anniversary of President Bush’s call for the “surge” on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, Washington Post Pentagon reporter Thomas Ricks said that, “judged on the terms in which the president presented it, the surge has not worked.” “The purpose was to improve security, but to improve it to lead to a political breakthrough,” said Ricks. “And that political breakthrough has not

The Politico reports on Identity-Politics-A-Palooza: A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband, and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina. The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — an aide later said

Errrrrrm: Twins who were separated at birth got married without realizing they were brother and sister, a lawmaker said, urging more information be provided on birth certificates for adopted children. A court annulled the British couple’s union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord David Alton said.”Everyone has a right to knowledge about their lineage, genealogy and identity. And if they don’t, then it will lead to cases of incest,”

With his patented combination of trenchant insight and abject blindness, Jonathan Freedland explains Hillary’s victory to Guardianistas:  All this suggests a fascinating shift. At the weekend, after Obama’s win in Iowa, America was debating race, congratulating itself – prematurely it now seems – on at last transcending the fatal flaw that has blighted the republic from the days of slavery to segregation. Now it is gender politics that’s at issue. Is

Erica Jong weighs in on the Democratic presidential campaign — at least that seems to be the subject of her latest wallow in the trough of identity politics.  A representative sentence: I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman… It is

Matt Welch of Reason magazine did a little digging and found that during the 1990’s Ron Paul generally defended and took full ownership of the racist comments published in his newsletters. At HotAir, Allahpundit notes the continuing — and increasingly silly — defenses being mounted by some Paul supporters, snarks that Paul “might as well own up and confess to having written the newsletters. They wouldn’t love him any less if he

in the service of Frodo.  Bwahaha.

HotAir has the translation of a story from Le Monde, about a threat against the Eiffel Tower, now picked up by Reuters: The newspaper said Portuguese air traffic authorities had intercepted a “vague and confused” short wave radio message apparently describing a threat on Thursday, but were not “panicked” by the message, according to a police source. Coincidentally (or not), CBSNews.com’s Tucker Reals reports from London: Recent postings on a Web forum commonly

Dan Cooper’s steamy account of working for Roger Ailes has everything. Rupert Murdoch hired Roger Ailes to brainwash America into thinking right-wing ideology is actually the political center. And he did. And, I’m ashamed to tell you, I helped him.I made a lot of money that year: 1996. I owned and loved living in an elegant cooperative apartment building on Park Avenue in Manhattan, just a few blocks from the