Russ McBee

The Anonymous Liberal said this about Jonah Goldberg: For reasons I cannot explain, big publications keep hiring Jonah Goldberg to write columns that make everyone dumber for having read them. That pretty much sums it up.

This year is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Cold War, and today marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift. In recognition of that anniversary, Spiegel has published an interview with Helmut Schmidt, who was chancellor of West Germany from 1974-1982. It's a fascinating interview, touching on everything from the ...

Jann Wenner interviews Barack Obama in this week's issue of ''Rolling Stone.'' After Obama enumerated the contents of his iPod, he said this (via Blah3): When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that Democrats have ''cowered'' in the past, Mr. Obama replied, ''Yeah, I don't do ...

In this interview with Amy Goodman, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) promises to filibuster the horrid FISA amnesty bill when it reaches the Senate. First, he outlines the most potent objections to the bill: Sen. Russ Feingold: Well, this is a great blow to the rights of the American people. And much of the publicity has been about a very ...

Via Doug McCaughan: That pretty much says it all.

This is hilarious: A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center. Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more ...

Thirty-one members of the US House of Representatives seem to think the establishment of an American theocracy is a more urgent matter than any of the economic, military, or environmental problems we face. Those 31, including Tennessee's own resident wingnut Marsha Blackburn, have co-sponsored HR 598; the bill's stated purpose is: Supporting ...

The Republican Party seems to be ensnared in a slow-motion downward spiral of late. Party unity on Capitol Hill has all but evaporated, the rank and file are disassociating themselves from the White House like rats from a sinking ship, and the prospects of an anti-GOP electoral slaughter in November grow ever brighter. I love it. Yesterday, both ...

By a lopsided vote of 349-62, the House of Representatives voted today to impose a moratorium on seven regulations promulgated by the Bush White House which would have eliminated $13 billion in Medicaid funding for health care for the poor. Every House Democrat and two-thirds of House Republicans voted to stop the enactment of the regulations, ...

In a comment here, the inimitable Betty Bean said: Is it too late to draft Gore? My sentiments exactly.