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The guns will blaze, answers to follow 27 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
NBC News: Missile strikes against Syria could be launched "as early as Thursday," senior U.S. officials said Tuesday as the White House intensified its push toward an international response to the sus...
The Perfect Sturm und Drang 27 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
Congress remains on (another) vacation, we're about to go to war, its fallout is utterly unknown, the red, white and blue is slated to go fiscally dark at September's end (before which our congressfol...
Kerry's "Too Late" Declaration 27 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
Not that we needed further confirmation of the administration's martial intent, but Secretary Kerry's "too late" declaration, minutes ago, capped it. The tyrant Assad was too late, said Kerry, in admi...
Cruz's magic: meaningful pablum 26 Aug 2013 | 10:39 pm
Ted Cruz, chatting yesterday with Candy Crowley: I'm convinced there's a new paradigm in politics, that actually has Washington very uncomfortable. And it has politicians in both parties very uncomfor...
Even Pentagonese can't muddy that 26 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
If there's any amusing reporting to be found in the horrors of the Syrian crisis, it is to be found at The Hill: "The United States is looking at all options regarding the situation in Syria," [Defens...
Thanks, but don't call us, we'll call you 26 Aug 2013 | 06:36 pm
I didn't see it, but Politico's Reid Epstein did. And here's his characterization of yesterday's telling congressional twaddle on the Sunday shows, as twaddled on "Face the Nation" by House Homeland S...
Needed: A class-based approach 25 Aug 2013 | 06:59 pm
Harold Meyerson (of the Washington Post and American Prospect) has a concise history of the March on Washington's socialist ancestry, which he suggests, without using the term, was a victim of America...
Is Syria Kosovo, and Obama Clinton? 24 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
Trial-balloon statements like this, from a "senior administration official" to the NY Times, are likely just that--full of air--however they nonetheless make one fearful: "It’s a step too far to say w...
GOP base to GOP: We're not conservative enough 23 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
Pew (as in Pepé Le ---) Research presents an eponymous finding: "50% of Republicans under 40 and 55% of those 40 and older favor their leaders moving in a more conservative direction." To the best of ...
From Boehner, some really creative bullshit 23 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
Otherworldly is probably more accurate, but I'll just say welcome to John Boehner's Orwellian world of GOPSpeak, as blithered on a conference call yesterday to his membership: "The president's threat ...
