Month: January 2008

An economic conservative on Huckabee’s loopy ideas of food independence, among other things.

A useful look at a couple of falsehoods being peddled by anti-Obama forces.

In the midst of campaigning round the clock, Obama has also been quietly doing what he can to help the Bush administration urge calm in Kenya. Joe Klein has the details.

"In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy’s. "Do you remember," Stevenson said, "that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, ‘How well he spoke,’ but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, ‘Let us march.’ " At this hour, Obama is the Democrats’ Demosthenes," – E.J. Dionne, WaPo.

A reader writes:

Re: your apearance tonight on Colbert. I would look forward to reading your article in the Atlantic, but as a Colbert fan, I don’t read. Are you on YouTube or iTunes reading it?

Such lovely, loyal people out there, aren’t they? Money quote:

Memo to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: We think you’re aces. Really. And we love your husband. But we’re running off with Sen. Barack Obama. Hope you understand. It’s all about being part of history. We’ll do lunch after the inauguration.

If you saw Colbert tonight and are interested in the Atlantic essay he picked up, here it is.

Ambers and Richelieu detect some twitching in the corpse.

Channeling Glenn Reynolds:

Stephen Bainbridge says what he really feels about Mitt Romney.