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Old enmities die hard. Gore Vidal takes a swipe at Newsweek for sullying his reputation in the course of burnishing that of the loathsome William F. Buckley. It’s worth reading, if just for the prose stylings, though it appears to suffer from a lack of editing. I’m old enough to dimly remember the debate to […]

Old friend Steve Fournier concisely sums up the back story to the public humiliation of Eliot Spitzer: Brothers at the bar Charles Schumer, Michael Mukasey, and Eliot Spitzer, three New York lawyers with considerable influence over public policy, crossed paths this week when wiretaps of New York Governor Spitzer arranging for paid sex were made […]

I stand by my position that the Congress has very little business holding hearings on Roger Clemens steroids use, when it is unable to rein in the Bush dictatorship. That being said, I must say that doing so may have given the Democrats a little insight into how they can get the Republicans to complete […]

In a column on Slate (Progressives to Arms), Paul Krugman makes what has become, for him, a familiar argument: Here’s a thought for progressives: Bush isn’t the problem. And the next president should not try to be the anti-Bush. No, I haven’t lost my mind. I’m not saying that we should look kindly on the […]