From happyfeet, channelling BJ’s comments from Jeff’s post of yesterday: Fred Kaplan pimps the “resurgent Taliban” lie to service a wholesale revision of the historical record… The real problem goes back still further. When the United States helped kick the Soviet army out of Afghanistan in the 1980s, we left soon thereafter – the goal was to defeat the Russians, not help the Afghans. And so the Taliban filled the

Michigan’s delegates have become a kind of slush fund for Hillary, it seems.  Carin’s on the case.

She will not allow America’s future to be Swift-boated: Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign aides stepped up their effort to force Democrat Hillary Clinton to release her tax returns yesterday, to shed light on the sources of income that enabled her to loan $5 million of her own money to her presidential bid.While Obama made public his tax return last year, Clinton’s top advisers have maintained that they will only

Howard Kurtz on the Shuster kerfuffle: In case there was any doubt, using a prostitution metaphor for the daughter of a presidential candidate is not a good career move. MSNBC suspended correspondent David Shuster yesterday for an undetermined period for making a disparaging on-air remark about Chelsea Clinton. Meanwhile, officials in her mother’s campaign raised the possibility of punishing the news channel by boycotting future debates. While filling in as