Not a long-term solution. My computer ailment is acting up, but here’s some nice, fresh meat for you, my pretties, courtesy of that nice Professor Reynolds. Aljazeera Magazine shmuck: Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower.  Somehow it escapes his attention that the Arab world is far more dependent on oil even than the US.  When the US develops the alternatives–and it will be the US that does it–who then will be

From FOXNews: House Democrats responded to President’s Bush’s call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live. Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply. Not only that, but then — according to an Obama supporter who represents the non-profit group Oil Change International

Matt Yglesias introduces Barack Obama’s “National Security Working Group.”  Imagine them on a giant lazy susan, Dating Game-style: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Senator David Boren, former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Secretary of State Warren Christopher Greg Craig, former director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig Representative Lee Hamilton, former Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Deputy

The comment by Richard Danzig that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh got its share of criticism from NRO’s Jim Geraghty,  Slublog, and others, as Danzig is one of Barack Obama’s key foreign policy advisers. But wait… there’s more! What went unnoticed in the accounts I read is that Danzig is in Obama’s Veepstakes.  Some might pooh-pooh Danzig’s chances

Like the spate of national polls mantioned in my prior post today, there were at least three pieces on the state of Iraq that popped up on my radar in the past day or two. Mike Hill notes that when “the Administration tried to sell Iraq as a success story in 2006, reality made a mockery of these claims,” but surveys the recent progress in security (US casualties, Iraqi casualties

With the usual caveat about not caring much about national horserace polls, especially this far away from an election, there has been a spate of them now that are worth a comment or two: T[ues]day’s ABC News/Washington Post survey of adults, which was taken 6/12-15, shows Obama leading McCain 48-42% — down from Obama’s 7% lead one month ago. Meanwhile, a new Cook Political Report/RT Strategies poll of RVs, also taken 6/12-15, shows

Political discourse in this country being in the state it’s in, I was only mildly surprised to find this post at feministe, the latter part of which pretends to encapsulate the argument I made in response to the Chicago Tribune’s ridiculous essay about racial victimhood and who, in essence, can lay claim to it. Writes Jill (for a post she shoehorns into the categories “Assholes, Racism” — as if Jill

The Politico reports that John McCain’s campaign and others in the GOP think Barack Obama’s campaign is speaking in “code” as part of an attempt to highlight his age: Obama aides deny any strategy to highlight age, and Obama, 46, himself told reporters last month that age should not be a factor. Indeed, he used to compliment McCain’s “half-century of service” to the country as a Vietnam War veteran and a

A commenter with a fondness for science-fiction writes: why does it drive u into a frenzy that ppl believe in O and admire him? The short answer is that it doesn’t, though it strikes me as somewhat irrational and disproportionate to his supposed public accomplishments. From June 1985 to May 1988, Obama was a community organizer with the Developing Communities Project in Chicago, working primarily to organize a housing project called Altgeld Gardens.