Politics Roundtable
Political Animal
July 23, 2008, 3:20 pm, 324267
MORE CAMPAIGN MUCK....Chris Orr suggests that John McCain ought to quit whining about the amount of press coverage Barack Obama is getting:The truth is that, while the inordinate coverage of Obama hurts McCain in some ways, it also dramatically decreases...
July 23, 2008, 1:42 pm, 324188
OIL SPECULATION....Yesterday the Senate voted 94-0 to proceed with debate on a bill designed to reduce speculation in the oil futures market. Megan McArdle calls the bill "monstrous," which, admittedly, would be my first guess too for any bill that...
July 23, 2008, 2:45 pm, 324186
BUSINESS TRAVEL....In recent decades, the cost of air travel has decreased and so has the service. MattY sees dark forces at work:But what's missing from this analysis is the executive suite. This is where folks have been able to give...
July 23, 2008, 2:14 pm, 324187
2010 OR BUST....The Washington Post editorial page has been the target of plenty of chin scratching over the past few years from people who wonder just what's going on in Fred Hiatt's shop, but today's effort really outdoes itself. If...
July 23, 2008, 12:24 pm, 324092
McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN....Was the troop surge in Iraq responsible for the Sunni Awakening? Of course not: the surge wasn't even a glimmer in George Bush's mind until several months after the Awakening started in Anbar province and was already showing strong...
July 23, 2008, 2:03 am, 323807
BIN LADEN'S SOFT SUPPORT....After the imam leaves and the conversation lingers into the small hours of the morning, what do young Islamic radicals talk about? In "Bin Laden's Soft Support," in the current issue of the Monthly, Kenneth Ballen writes...
July 22, 2008, 5:41 pm, 323627
DISCRETIONARY SPENDING WATCH....Has domestic discretionary spending really skyrocketed on George Bush's watch? John Cogan and Glenn Hubbard say yes, and they have a chart to prove it — but they measure spending in dollars, not percent of GDP, which is...
July 22, 2008, 6:29 pm, 323626
NOT SO LOST IN TRANSLATION....Did Der Spiegel, in its interview with prime minister Nouri al-Maliki published this weekend, correctly translate his endorsement of Barack Obama's timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq? We now know it did, but CJR reporter...
July 22, 2008, 3:46 pm, 323547
OBAMA ON THE SURGE....Over at the Corner, Andy McCarthy berates Barack Obama's explanation for the reduction in violence in Iraq ("What you had is a combination of political factors inside of Iraq that then came right at the same time...
July 22, 2008, 3:59 pm, 323546
LEFT AND RIGHT COMING TOGETHER....Just to show that I don't always disagree with the Cornerites, I think Mark Krikorian gets this exactly right:The Wall Street Journal today describes how the firms owning trademarks for Dora the Explorer and other characters...