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Talking Points Memo

Need a Graphic Designer - We're looking for a New York City-based graphic designer to help put the finishing touches on a project we're working on. (We have a strong preference for ...
2 hours ago
Politico Top Stories

Frank reps Dems at Gridiron dinner - Frank opened with a few reality-show opportunities before taking a serious turn.
3 hours ago
The Moderate Voice

Outlaws and Activists - “Pretty Boy Floyd” by Woodie Guthrie. “When I’m Gone” by Phil Ochs
3 hours ago
Althouse

The $127 million losing streak. - Terrance Watanabe, you old fool. Mr. Watanabe's situation illustrates the often-uneasy relationships casinos have with their biggest clients, also known as...
3 hours ago
AmSpecBlog

'Remember the Rose Bowl We'll Win Then!' - The undefeated Crimson Tide just beat the University of Florida 32-13 to claim the SEC football championship. Gator quarterback Tim Tebow was crying on nat...
5 hours ago
Balloon Juice

Saturday Night Open Thread - Two dogs is more than twice one dog.
6 hours ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Face Of The Day - A four-week-old Amur leopard baby is presented to the public for the first time at an animal park in Hodenhagen, northern Germany on December 4, 2009. Acco...
6 hours ago
The Corner

The Trouble With Harry: A Senate Update -- By: Robert Costa - On a snowy day in Washington, the Senate was in session to vote on amendments to Senate majority leader Harry Reid’s health-care bill. Reid, predictably, r...
6 hours ago
The Spine

"We Have Forged a New Beginning Between America and the Muslim World." From Obama's Mouth to God's Ears. - I know this is the president's ambition. But the thought that he has already forged it is pretension of the highest order. In fact, it can be his ambitio...
7 hours ago
The Plank

Men Do The Silliest Things - Ian Buruma's *New Yorker* piece on the attempts of Dutch liberals to manage Muslim immigration in the Netherlands has one particularly interesting nugget...
7 hours ago
Marc Ambinder

Primary Controversy, Not Yet Solved - The DNC's working group charged with examining and retooling the Democratic presidential nominating process is moving forward with some recommendations, CN...
7 hours ago
Matthew Yglesias

Mass vs. Elite Opinion on U.S. Role - A couple of days and one judicious Spencer Ackerman intervention later, it occurs to me that a clearly and less inflammatory way of making the point I was ...
8 hours ago
Swampland

Baucus's Legal Affairs - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus found himself the center of a scrum of reporters Saturday as the Senate worked through the weekend on health c...
8 hours ago
The American Scene

Pop-Culture Bullet Points - Yeasayer’s “Ambling Alp,” the first track from its forthcoming LP, *Old Blood*, may be the best single I’ve heard all year: If Willy Wonka grew a beard, ...
8 hours ago
The Debatable Land

Prejudice Isn't Daring; It's Boring - So, yes, we all know that Rod Liddle's *shtick* is to try and be as offensive as possible so that he can chuckle at those po-faced ninnies who dare to be...
13 hours ago
Pat Buchanan

Who are 9/11 Truthers? What is the 9/11 Truth Movement? - by Carl Herman – LA County Examiner Van Jones, an advisor to President Obama signed a 9/11 Truth petition. Charlie Sheen challenges President Obama for a...
1 day ago
Taki’s Magazine

Roberts and Social Security - A reader goes after Paul Craig Roberts: I think Paul Craig Roberts needs in education what we call a “time out.” His assertions that Obama is being over ru...
1 day ago
The Long War Journal

Marines fire opening salvo to retake Helmand - [image: Afgh-USMC-Now-Zad-patrol.jpg] Marines and sailors with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, patrol the area outside Now Zad, Afghani...
1 day ago
Ezra Klein

Is Israel a Democracy? - Ending the occupation and discrimination against Arab citizens within its borders will alter our perception of whether Israel began as an imperfect democra...
1 day ago
FP Passport

Friday Photo: The World's Highest Political Body - Nepal may have outdone the Maldives (words I never thought I would type) in the stunt cabinet meeting department: Nepalese politicians take part in a ...
1 day ago
Will Wilkinson

A Little More Mystic Nationalism - Jonah Goldberg has posted further thoughts on patriotism and nationalism. I think we agree that, in the American context, the distinction between nationali...
1 day ago
Environment and Energy

Surprise--Obama Changes Up His Copenhagen Schedule - It’s official: Barack Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate conference on December 18, the final day of scheduled negotiations. Originally slated only ...
1 day ago
Stephen M. Walt

Ha'aretz says U.S. officials face 'pro-Israel' background check - There is an amazing story in *Ha'aretz *today on the "pro-Israel" litmus test that determines who is permitted to serve in the United States government. ...
1 day ago
Megan McArdle

Apologies for the Light Posting - Today has been a festival of interviews, meetings, and other non-bloggy goodness. Due to my underestimating the time-suck, the annual gift guide will be u...
1 day ago
Jeffrey Goldberg

The Secret Muslim Plot Against Charlie Brown - Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington, Tennessee, sat down the other night to watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special, but apparently some Muslim had h...
1 day ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Unless You Plan To Bang - Millionaire, took me back to Outkast this week. There really is no way to definitively argue who's greater than who in art. But with that caveat in mind, I...
1 day ago
Eunomia

This “New Anti-War Right” Is Pro-War And Wrong - Reihan: By its very nature, a counterinsurgency campaign is a limited war, one that relies on winning over the civilian population through the careful use ...
1 day ago
The American Conservative

O = W - “O=W” is a bumper sticker beginning to show up on liberals’ cars. After the President’s speech Tuesday night at West Point, I suspect it will spread rapidl...
1 day ago
Obsidian Wings

Friday Open Thread - by Eric Martin Some day I imagine he will repay me for this. I'm prepared to make that tradeoff.
1 day ago
Glenn Greenwald

Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan is? - *(Updated below w/MSNBC segment* *)* On the vital question of whether Obama is committed to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July, 2011 -- o...
1 day ago
In Medias Res

Friday Morning Videos: "Breakout" (Again) - And since I can't stand to have Swing Out Sister's gloriously colorful video robbed from my archives, here it is again as well.
1 day ago
But, I am a Liberal!

Hitchens at the Intelligence Squared Debate - Part 2 of 18. But I am a Liberal! Words from a realistic liberal
1 day ago
Elizabeth Nolan Brown

My Feminine Perspective - I could say a lot about Helen Rittlemeyer ’s Doublethink piece on women’s Web sites and blogs, but I’m going to focus on her relatively minor criticism of ...
4 days ago
Damon Linker

Against Common Sense - Conservatives would have us believe that they hold a monopoly on common sense. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and many other right-wing rabb...
5 days ago
The Diary of a Secular Conservative

Where Do We Draw The Line? - I was having a conversation with someone the other day and she took a very moderate position when it comes to taxation. “We shouldn’t be taxing people who ...
1 week ago
L'Hôte

El Hombre - by William Carlos Williams It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
2 months ago
some political

On Palestinian Unilateralism - The always-savory bitterlemons is especially interesting this week: four essays that seem, for once, to converge in agreement. The topic at hand is Palesti...
2 months ago
Indistinct Union

Spiritual Lines and Action: A (Appreciative/Critical) Response to Craig Hamilton - Craig Hamilton’s new site Integral Enlightenment is worth a look. To say upfront: I really appreciate what Craig is doing and I wish him all the best. H...
3 months ago
Civitate

The City Summer 2009: Full Edition - The Summer 2009 issue of The City has been posted in full via zmags, and is now available below. We hope you enjoy it. var thumb = new Thumb(189236, "myThu...
3 months ago
Postmodern Conservative

We’ve Moved - To new digs getting newer, here. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly, and thanks for your continued readership.
7 months ago
Ross Douthat

A Goodbye - This has been my last week at *The Atlantic*. The magazine has been my home for seven years, under four editors, permanent and interim: The late Michael Ke...
7 months ago
Publius Endures

Can Judges Be Tyrants? - So, I'm returning to these old digs to promote a unique piece on which I'm the co-author over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The piece is a conversat...
7 months ago
The Left Conservative

In Defense of McCarthyism - It's not online yet, but Dan McCarthy's piece for the first issue of Young American Revolution, is remarkable for a number of reasons. Aside from the fact ...
8 months ago
The Politics of Scrabble

Don’t Take Any Guff From These Swine - In two weeks The Politics of Scrabble will cease to be. The registration is up after one year and given that all of my writing has migrated over to The Lea...
9 months ago
Ladyblog

CPAC Adventures - I’m at the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC, an annual orgy of the right-leaning masses, laden with star-studded speakers and wide-eyed activ...
9 months ago
NeoConstant

A word or two more - Okay. So from a handful of Neo’s former writers I’ve gotten nothing but kind words and encouragement. Thanks to Courtney, Roland, Walker, Edward, etc. for...
9 months ago
The Confabulum

The Ladyblog Lives — Patronize, Please - There’s been some rumors about the fate of C11 now that we’re "officially" over. I can’t speak for the rest of the site, but for now, Ladyblog lives on. Pl...
10 months ago
Upturned Earth

Can I Still Announce My Support for the Journalism Bailout? - No doubt many of you have heard that Culture11 is shutting down, and if you hadn’t yet heard, well now you have. David Kuo and Conor have a pair of posts u...
10 months ago
Crunchy Con

Dhimmitude in Germany - This is a complete outrage: Police in the western German city of Duisburg have admitted they removed flags a student had hung in his apartment in support o...
10 months ago
The New Christians

Mission: Missouri Ministers' School - I've arrived on the shores of the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Missouri, where I'll be addressing a couple hundred Methodist ministers over...
10 months ago

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