Excitable Andy, if nothing else, lives down to his nickname in his latest column on the Democratic presidential campaign for the Times of London.  For example, his take on Clinton’s wins in Texas and Ohio: Objectively, an accomplished senator won a couple of races – one by a mere 3% – against another senator in a presidential campaign. One senator is still mathematically unbeatable. But that will never capture the emotional toll

Hizbullah arch-terrorist Imad Mugniyah becomes immortalized in form of new Iranian stamp issued as ‘cultural message of support’ from Iran to Lebanon (h/t Hot Air)

Much More is Coming Between 2005 and 2013 cosmic dust will increase by another factor of 3. Thus making the second increase three times more intense. We are in for a rough ride. Of greatest concern is volcanic activity which has increased 500% over the past 100 years. The timing of this cosmic dust increase is disturbing because the usually dependable (every 600,000 years) Yellowstone super volcano (30 x 50

In the wake of the Goolsbee/NAFTA flap, in which Austan Goolsbee suggested to Canadian diplomats that Barack Obama’s protectionist rhetoric on trade might be just for politics, Camp Obama suddenly seems as though they have barely heard of the distinguished U of Chicago economist: “I think Austan innocently went over there, half as a professor, half as a campaign adviser,” said Obama campaign manager David Axelrod. “He’s basically a volunteer. He’s

At the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza writes a piece title “The Iron Lady,” which is about as friendly to Hillary Clinton’s campaign as reality will allow – and occasionally a little friendlier. For example, Lizza notes: There is now, and has always been, a certain joylessness in her bearing. She has been trying to make discipline a selling point since her first “listening tour” of New York State, in the months before

Stop the Breathing!  The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades. Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations

At Condé Nast’s Portfolio, Matt Cooper claims that Howard Dean may have gotten a bad rap for that scream in 2004, but has been a “mess” as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  He argues that Dean (while not entirely to blame) let the Florida and Michigan situation to spin out of control.  Cooper suggests that the GOP stripping FL and MI of only half their delegates for moving up their primaries seems like

Seth Grahame-Smith has had enough of this one-way relationship: She has no idea. She has no idea how many times I defended her. How many right-leaning friends and relatives I battled with. How many times I played down her shady business deals and penchant for scandals — whether it was Whitewater, Travelgate, Vince Foster, Cattle Futures, Web Hubbell, or Norman Hsu. She has no idea how frequently I dismissed her

Won’t Gleen(s) be relieved?  The Clinton campaign is no longer taking contributions from a Turkish American who financed a film that depicted an American Jew trading in Iraqi body parts. Mehmet Celebi had been listed on the presidential campaign website of U.S. Sen. Hilalry Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as a “Hill-raiser,” someone who had raised more than $100,000 for her presidential bid. Celebi had co-produced “Valley of the Wolves: Iraq,” a

Shit you is the thing I do not do: An autobiographies?