I’m just, y’know, asking. WASHINGTON (CNN)—Cookies mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year contained enough rat poison to kill all nine justices, retired member Sandra Day O’Connor said at a conference last week. Barbara Joan March, a 60-year-old Connecticut woman, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison. She sent 14 threatening letters in April 2005—each with a baked good or piece of candy laced with rat poison—to

After years of decrying “Christianists,” Excitable Andy writes of “The Christianism Of Obama.” He has nothing critical to say about it, of course.  Indeed, he has now created a new class of “moderate Christianists” heretofore unseen at the Daily Dish to which Barack Obama can appeal. Sullivan also writes that “you could see this coming a while back.” Funny, I seem to recall writing about it for months and having Sullivan disagree with

Excitable Andy relays — without the slightest hint of skepticism — an anonymously sourced piece from PressTV claiming that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly objected to a ‘security accord’ between the US and Iraq. PressTV is an arm of Iran’s state broadcasting apparatus.  As Michael Goldfarb notes, it is an outlet that seriously reports on claims that the Holocuast was “scientifically impossible.”  While it is possible that Sistani is

Excitable Andy thinks he is attacking Hillary Clinton for criticizing Barack Obama’s condescending comments about the culure and values of people who live in “small towns” in Pennsylvania and the Midwest: The “bitter” spat is gold for Morris-Rove politics, which is why Clinton is exploiting it so baldly. It is exactly the kind of debate that has constructed American politics since Vietnam; it is exactly the kind of politics that

Excitable Andy accuses the Clinton campaign of plagarizing her “3 a.m. phone ad” from the 1984 Mondale “Red Phone” ad. His co-blogger at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder, noted in linking to the same ad yesterday: Roy Spence, the Texas-based advertizing wizard brought aboard to soften Hillary Clinton’s image after Super Tuesday, is the maestro behind Clinton’s most audacious advertisement to date, a Clinton campaign official said this morning. And Spence is

An increasingly infrequent reader writes: Excitable Andy, You seem surprised (if not fully gobsmacked) by the Atlantic’s survey of your readers: The ideological mix: 2.5 percent of you describe yourselves as very conservative; 9.6 percent as conservative; 33.3 percent as moderate; 38.1 percent as liberal; and 16.5 percent as very liberal. I’m, not sure whether this is a function of my Obama love, or what. Andy, your 54.6% liberal audience (and just

I’d point out that, according to the hospital spokesman and doctor at this morning’s, press conference, this was an asymptomatic (silent) heart attack caused by a piece of birdshot that migrated either through the bloodstream or managed to get through a shallow portion of the chest cavity and caused an inflammation around the heart—and that complications (like infection), though a possiblity, are treatable—but why bother? Because now the media has