Crackberry’s a Hell of a Drug
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 8th, 2009 at 11:11 amThe Secret Service is going to have to pry Obama’s Blackberry from his cold, dead hands:
“I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama said…
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Brother, Can You Spare 50 Billion Dimes?
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 7th, 2009 at 4:27 pmLooks like yet another industry wants a bailout (h/t Balko):
Joe Francis and Larry Flynt claim the economy has made America’s sexual appetite go limp,…
Envoy Haass
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 6th, 2009 at 1:49 pmVia Steve Walt, it seems that Obama has chosen his Israel/Palestine envoy from neither the Dennis Ross nor Daniel Kurtzer camps, but has instead decided…
The Poverty of Realism
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 5th, 2009 at 1:38 pmI’m considerably less heartened by the rise of realism in mainstream punditry–represented most recently by Foreign Policy giving Steve Walt a blog–than Matt Yglesias is:…
Make Him An Offer He Can’t Accept
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 31st, 2008 at 1:44 pmBy now, I suspect most people have seen Zbigniew Brzezinski’s smackdown of Joe Scarborough:
It is, of course, awesome to see Scarborough’s smug sense of…
Changing the Mindset
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pmThings like this, from Eli Lake at his new perch at the Washington Times, might just convince me that Hillary Clinton’s selection as Secretary of…
Israel News: Kadima Gains
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmGood news out of Israel. Just after some seriously extreme right-wingers won choice spots on its candidate list, Likud is slipping in the polls:
Heading…
In the Navy: William White?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pmIf Obama wants to get the gay and lesbian community back on his side after the Rick Warren invocation, this wouldn’t be a half bad…
Teen Pregnancy: Not Just for Straight People Anymore
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:00 amHere’s a simultaneously weird and depressing stat: lesbian and bi teenage girls in British Columbia are far more likely to get pregnant than their straight…
Now Clap Your Hands If You Got a Bank Roll
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 15th, 2008 at 1:28 pmRemember the executive compensation provisions in the financial bailout? Remember how they were a huuuuge concession on the part of the Bush administration? Well…
Congress…
Powell Pivot
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 12th, 2008 at 11:40 amFirst Sam Nunn said Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is worth “taking another look at,” now this:
[Colin] Powell is the expected guest on CNN’s GPS…
Your Word For Me Is Fusion, but Is Real Change An Illusion?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pmObviously, the big Obama event today was his press conference on his health care team and the Blagojevich scandal, but he also has this on…
Candidate Five is Jesse Jackson Jr.
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pmWell, scratch that Danny Davis talk. ABC News reports:
Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is the anonymous “Senate Candidate #5″ whose emissaries Illinois Governor…
Candidate Five, Who Are Thou?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pmRod Blagojevich’s indictment is one endlessly readable treasure trove. In addition to the obvious malfeasance by Blago and his chief of staff, John Harris, there’s…
Gallows Hill and Andersonville*
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 8th, 2008 at 2:15 pmIf, like me, you’ve been less than impressed by President-elect Obama’s national security selections, take heart: it could always get worse. According to US News…
