Matt Ortega, my coblogger at The Right’s Field, has ginned up this great video on Rudy Giuliani’s supposed optimism.

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Matthew Yglesias on Mitt Romney’s trawler-sized net of Islamic bad guys:
To put it bluntly, the trouble here is that the Muslim Brotherhood just isn’t a violent terrorist organization, and certainly doesn’t commit acts of violence against the United States. It’s an extremely traditionalist multinational civil society organization. It’s true that a lot of violent types […]

Renowned Tibetan writter Woeser informs us of truly frightening developments about the Chinese government’s efforts to control the Tibetan populace and create a culture of snitching and fear within Tibet. Here’s the English translation China Digital Times (original post here):
These two SMS messages are almost identical, they both came from the Tibet Public Security Border […]

Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolff has a great look at the balance between Giuliani as star politician who commands the spotlight and Giuliani the crazed nut who’s probably moments away from doing something to completely destroy his presidential campaign.
His reign in New York—cutting his opponents dead while micro-managing or attacking the media as he sped off […]

Jim Himes, challenger to Chris Shays from Cos Cobb, has released the following statement on President Bush’s veto of the Iraq Accountability Act, a bill that would have supported the troops and set a time table for withdrawal from Iraq. From HimesForCongress.com:
“Yesterday, President Bush vetoed the Iraq Accountability Act, which would have set a date […]

The NY Times documents how Rudy Giuliani’s extensive fundraising in Texas through energy industry donors connected to his law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, could actually pose risks for the campaign. Giuliani’s firm has a long history of lobbying against environmental regulations for energy companies working in the coal, oil, gas, and nuclear fields. Many of […]

Last night President Bush vetoed the Iraq war spending bill, which would have sent $124 billion to American troops and help fund other emergency projects (Katrina, homeland security spending) that the previous Republican Congress never got around to funding. There’s a lot I’d write in response that would go far beyond being irreverent and would […]