Unqualified Offerings

May 9, 2007 . . .
I think there’s a passion for Hillary Clinton’s candidacy that’s almost as invisible to the Democratic-Party netroots as Karl Rove’s vote drive among evangelicals was in 2004. Only very occasionally does this passion glimmer into the view of the progressive blogosphere. My claim is basically that the Clinton voters are [...]

By Thoreau
You know, I have been quite wary of the whole Obama phenomenon of “I’m going to bring change, because change is good, and I’m different, and I haven’t been here that long, and it will all be a change!” I want action over rhetoric.
But thinking on the issues facing us, I guess that [...]

By Thoreau
The Economist has an article on the mysterious internet cable outages in the Middle East.  The basic points are:  (1)  The theory that this was all about delaying the opening of an Iranian oil exchange is dubious and (2) these things actually happen a lot more than we generally hear about:
Iran’s internet connectivity was [...]

By Mona
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Sen. Frank Church is rollin’ and Nixon grinnin’ in their respective graves; Greenwald (brief ad click-through) has the eulogy for the Church Committee’s legislation protecting Americans from abusive government surveillance, protection which today will be severely maimed by Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Someone wanna tell me again why I voted [...]

“Once you torture someone, it is hard to un-torture them.” – Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, USN (Ret.)
Via War and Piece.

Many Marylanders who are not me will vote today in the first material Presidential primary I can remember here. (I’m registered Independent and Maryland doesn’t let you change registration after November until the primary is over.) I’m enough of a homer, though, to idly note that if you want a “small state” to replace Iowa [...]