Obama tells Glamour to debate him, not M’chelle. What questions do you think Glamour ought to ask Baracky?

Mike’s talking about setting up his blog after 9/11 and his move to the right from the left over the course of time. He says he doesn’t like the way he sounds there, but I think he sounds good. Hey, he mentions Protein Wisdom! Here, Simon talks about the boom in readership for the political blogosphere, noting that Protein Wisdom, with an increased readership of 30%, is one of those

to prevent Obama from being raptured.

Matthew Yglesias announces he’s “Big Think Tank Matt”: I recently accepted a new job at the Center for American Progress where I’ll be working with the team that puts together ThinkProgress, the Wonk Room, and the Progress Report.  Contrary to what he posted, Yglesias has actually taken a job with the American Progress Action Fund (APAF) — which is not the same thing as the Center for American Progress (CAP), for tax

“You know what I can’t stand, Mr. Jack? It’s all of these neo–cons trying to marginalize me, pretending suddenly that they speak for American conservatism. Well, let me tell you something, my goodly red-faced friend: regardless of what Bill Kristol may tell you, one doesn’t get to call oneself an American conservative by catering to the New York money men*, or by agitating for open trade agreements that outsource American

being held by Murietta cops.

Camp Obama finally announced they raised $52 million in June — a bit short of the $100 Million June some supporters had been hyping.  I had thought that the previously leaked $30 million June figure could be a head fake, but the official number is not much better than Kerry did four years ago — and he sewed up his nomination earlier.  Moreover, the Politico’s Ben Smith reports that “[i]n

At NRO, Michael Knox Beran gives his take on John McCain’s love for Teddy Roosevelt.  Although I have previously noted TR’s progressivism, Beran argues that TR was neither conservative nor progressive: [I]f Roosevelt was not a capitalist, neither was he deeply or sincerely a Progressive. He was a man of the state. Robert La Follette perceived the falseness of his reformist strutting: “Theodore Roosevelt is the ablest living interpreter of

Yesterday, NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman noted that for all of the polls documenting the decline in American popularity around the world under President Bush, people in those countries might want to consider the alternative — a world of too much Russian and Chinese power. Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) flailed at Friedman with his typically overwrought prose, arguing that the US is unpopular because it enagaged in unprovoked wars

The Associated Press reports on Barack Obama’s desire to secure all loose nuclear material during his first term and to rid the world of nuclear weapons, as he warned his audience of the danger of “fighting the last war.” This from the candidate who constantly reminds us he opposed the last war — making his 2002 speech opposing it the totem representing his “judgment to lead.”  Of course, he might be