I wonder how many hard-line Republicans are going to Google “Operation Chaos” looking for information about Rush Limbaugh’s plan to bolster Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and instead discover that—back in the golden age before we passed that awful, restrictive, un-American FISA law—”Operation Chaos” was the CIA’s clever name for the practice of systematically spying on the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Horse Race Politics'
Musing of the Day
April 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Horse Race Politics · Journalism & the Media · Privacy and Surveillance
Greenwald Talks Strategy
April 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
After a debate watching party here in DC last night, Glenn Greenwald spoke for a bit and took some questions from the mostly-progressive crowd about how Democrats can more effectively counter Republican narratives. The audio quality is not exactly stellar, but I did manage to capture some of the Q&A on my phone:
Greenwald in DC, [...]
Tags: Horse Race Politics · Journalism & the Media · Washington, DC
Hillary on “the Math”
April 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Buffeted by claims that her campaign cannot hope to overcome “the math” that gives Barack Obama an almost certain lead in pledge delegates as the Democratic National Convention draws ever nearer, Hillary Clinton today struck back, citing the controversial work of MIT mathematician Ian Malcolm as grounds for her supporters to hold out hope.
Mr Malcolm [...]
Tags: General Philosophy · Horse Race Politics
Punishment
April 1st, 2008 · 39 Comments
So, uh, yeah: If you’re a girl in your early teens and have no option but to carry to term an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy when you’re in no real position to care for a child, and when the burden of doing so is very likely to derail your future educational plans, the word for this [...]
Tags: Horse Race Politics · Sociology
Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
March 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Glenn Reynolds:
HMM: Rep. Ellison: Clinton Trying To Reap Benefit Of Obama-Muslim Smear. “I think that Barack Obama’ s Democratic opponents will say and do anything to try and win.” Well, yes.
But why does Ellison think calling someone a Muslim is a “smear”? If somebody called me a Muslim, I wouldn’t feel smeared, [...]
Tags: Horse Race Politics · Sociology · Stupid Shit
High Weirdness by Mail
February 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Horse Race Politics
We Own You, Now Shut Up
February 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Horse Race Politics
The GOP Digital Media Strategy
February 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Horse Race Politics
When Your Day Is Done and You Wanna Run
January 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Horse Race Politics
GAH! Never Say That!
January 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: Horse Race Politics