Hold Fast

The Republican candidate for the Illinois 14th Congressional District (Dennis Hastert’s seat) is running this ad against Democrat Bill Foster. This ad mentions “cut[ting] off funding for our troops” and Foster is accused of wanting to “raise the white flag”. It ends: “I’m Jim Olberweis and I approved this message because I’ll never turn my […]

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AJ Rossmiller of AmericaBlog has a great new book out today, Still Broken: A Recruit’s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon. There have been a few posts giving it strong praise so far: Matt Yglesias, Jill at Feministe, and I expect there to be many more as people […]

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BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber targeted U.S.-allied fighters north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 20, Iraqi security officials said.
Police and members of an anti-al-Qaida group opened fire as the attacker sped toward a joint checkpoint. But the bomber managed to detonate his explosives near some stores about 20 […]

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Matt Taibbi, aka the poor man’s Leonard Pierce, has a powerful article in Rolling Stone attacking the anti-war movement’s embrace of Democratic political interests while Congressional Democrats for fail to move to end the war in Iraq. The article includes some undoubtedly controversial descriptions of how one of the leading anti-war coalitions, Americans Against the […]

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Atrios is writing on Iraq but he could well be writing about presidential politics or Bush’s approval ratings or any other number of subjects:
The absurdity of everything continues. It’s just impossible for common sense and facts to penetrate our contemporary discourse anymore.
This is seen in the primary setting in Matt Yglesias’s post on Romney and […]

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