So the ObamAdmin’s response to the WikiLeaks papers: “We are in this region of the world because of what happened on 9/11,” Mr. Gibbs said. “Ensuring that there is not a safe haven in Afghanistan by which attacks against this country and countries around the world can be planned. That’s why we’re there, and that’s [...]

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I hate opinion pieces like these. Peter Beinart advances the useless notion that President Obama’s address to the West Point Academy wasn’t stirring enough: Obama is clearly trying to ensure that the Afghan war no longer be run on a blank check. That’s why he famously brought OMB Director Peter Orszag to be photographed at [...]

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Anyone remember Lynn Forester de Rothschild? Think reeeeeaaaaalllllly hard back to the closing days of the 2008 election; and you may recall an upper class white woman with strong ties to the investment class making a big regretful noise that, contrary to decades of loyalty to her Democratic Party, she could not in good conscience [...]

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Click it to read it! This should have appeared on Tuesday as part of my promise two or three months ago to resume twice weekly posting in January. But that promise was made before a) I got a stomach virus, b) my oven caught fire, c) I got a head cold and d) I lost [...]

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This woman was paid real U.S. currency to write these words: By staying in Hawaii, the president has sent the message that the situation really isn’t all that serious, that things can proceed just fine until he’s back. And isn’t it that kind of reasoning that emboldens our never-vacationing enemies into thinking Christmas Day is [...]

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In journalism there is perhaps no end to shitty beats. But the anonymous drone for Associated Press who wrote this story must have really pissed someone off. Let the headline suffice to convey the self-loathing and dismay the assignment must have instilled. Obama dog Bo has own Christmas stocking The article notes that it took [...]

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Frank Rich gets to the heart of magical thinking that guides American foreign policy: Americans want our country to be secure. Most want Obama to succeed. And so we hope that we won’t get bogged down in Afghanistan while our adversaries regroup elsewhere, that the casualties and costs can be contained, that the small, primitive [...]

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This cartoon will change your mind. Whatever you think now, you will stop thinking after reading this cartoon. In fact, you will stop thinking, period. Your brain will shut down. Soon all other biological processes will cease to function and you will begin to decompose. Before reading this cartoon, call your attorney to update your [...]

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Uh, I done did it uh-gin. I tweeted and facebooked, but I forgot to blog the posting of yesterday’s In Contempt cartoon. I’m feeling a little over-extended these days – which is amazing, since I haven’t had a work shift in 3 weeks. Lots of child care, housekeeping, volunteering at school, and wotnot – trying [...]

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The U.S. foreign policy crowd, from Sandy Berger to John Bolton, worries that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will come unglued over Afghanistan, so reports David Paul Kuhn. The irony, says Kuhn, is that earlier in the decade Afghanistan was seen as a new frontier for NATO. The member states came to the defense [...]

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