Category: Edgewise

  • I wasn’t kidding about the draft

    Even in my day (mid ’80s) they were taking away financial aid from any (poor) student who wouldn’t register for the (don’t worry there is no) draft (yet, anyway). Legislation just sitting there? Why haven’t I been reading this on the front page of the Times, or Salon even: He’s right. There is pending legislation…

  • Air Fair

    My buddy Sean Hannity loves to talk about John Kerry’s private plane and multiple SUVs as a way of blowing smoke over any sort of talk about environmental or oil issues. In fact, his smoke screens alone have probably added significantly to global warning, but I digress… In today’s Chronicle, there is an article I’ve…

  • McCain: A win-win for Democats?

    I’ve been open to the Kerry McCain ticket, but it struck me this week that McCain may actually be (even) more useful to the Kerry campaign right where he is — a Republican, and at least nominally part of the Bush campaign — someone who can’t be completely dismissed by the Right, much less independents…

  • McCain is Kerry’s Powell

    Political Wire: McCain Speculation Continues No, Kerry won’t nominate McCain (note: I am notoriously always wrong when I make predictions about McCain)… but the speculation lends him gravitas, what the folks in the early 19th century called “bottom.” Let the speculation continue. Make the convention suspenseful by keeping the veep nominee secret till the nominating…

  • Dolchstoss 2, Electric Boogaloo

    There’s being right and there’s winning the argument and they are two different things. Those of us who feared the worst of the (unpreventable, post 2000 election, I’m afraid) adventure in Iraq were right in 2002 but we weren’t winning the argument. The blame-Cassandra tack that the administration-policy apologist dead-enders are taking now, I’m afraid,…

  • Arab conspiracies theories about CIA given huge shot in the arm

    It looks like our [new] man in Iraq is publicly tied to the CIA, the US intelligence agency that many Arabs “on the street” reportedly believe secretly engineers all of their humiliations.