Didn’t James Cameron Tell Us This Was A Bad Idea?
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 6th, 2009 at 9:59 amWhile most kids, if they’re Christian, learn their life lessons from the Bible (or, if they’re Jewish, the collected works of Chaim Potok), I learned…
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Why Have An Invocation At All?
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 19th, 2008 at 11:30 amRick Warren
I’m totally on board with those who think that Obama’s choice of Rick Warren (see other discussion about Rick Warren on Pushback here…
A Limited Defense of Gates
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 19th, 2008 at 9:30 amDylan makes a ton of good points in opposition to Gates staying on at Secretary of Defense, but I think there’s one way in which…
The South Will Get Cabinet Seats Again!
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pmThis Politico article, covering some anonymous grumbling that Obama hasn’t appointed a Southerner to his cabinet, is remarkably silly. One the most basic level, all…
Against Holocaust Movies
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pmPeter Suderman passes along Stuart Klawans’ proposal to stop producing Holocaust movies. As someone who’s Hebrew School education largely consisted of watching those very films, I very…
Bizarre Foreign Policy Decisions Biting Us In The Ass
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pmRemember in late 2006, when an Islamist group named the Islamic Courts Union took over large swathes of Somalia and brought the first functioning (albeit…
Eliot Spitzer Emerges
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pmFirst it was his column in The Washington Post on financial regulation, and now everyone’s favorite disgraced governor is back with a regular gig writing…
Afghanistan Signs Cluster Bomb Treaty
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmOne of the ravages of modern warfare is the cluster bomb. The way most of these bombs work is by spraying “bomblets” all over the…
Holbrooke to South Asia?
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmRichard Holbrooke was one of those Democratic foreign policy gurus whose reputation and future employment prospects were all but ruined by his vociferous support for…
But Doesn’t Everyone Say That?
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pmIt’s very rare to hear someone say, “I have a hidebound ideology which will dictate all my opinions on policy in spite of any empirical…
Silly Parts of the Constitution
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 30th, 2008 at 1:17 pmAlthough I have my own problems with Senator Clinton becoming Secretary of State, the fact that her appointment could possibly violate the Constitution should be…
Pardon Me!
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 27th, 2008 at 10:07 amIf I were president, I would immediately pardon just about every non-violent drug offender. So, I should probably be happy that Bush has pardoned a…
Once It’s A Civil Rights Issue, We Will Have Already Won
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 26th, 2008 at 10:25 amI agree with Kay that, in some conceptual sense, same-sex marriage really is a civil rights issue. I don’t think its some carve-out for a…
I Don’t Really Care if Auto CEOs Fly in Private Jets
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThere’s been a lot of controversy over the Big 3 automobile companies’ CEOs flying to Washington on private jets and then asking for huge sums…
Why Bill Disqualifies Hillary for Secretary of State
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pmPerhaps I’m being simple minded, but it seems like Bill Clinton’s recent activities running around the world, giving paid speeches to foreign governments and corporations…
