Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
An Opening
Publius at Obsidian Wings lays out what could go down at the Democratic debate tonight in light of Barack Obama’s “really, really bad move” on Social Security:
[T]he real opening here is for Edwards. If she were so inclined, Clinton could knock Obama out with a quick, powerful attack from the left — “he’s repeating Bush […]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The Far-Right Christian Perspective on Israel
There is a man named Daniel Gilbert from North Carolina who believes himself to be running for the Republican presidential nomination as a true conservative. He has not previously held elective office and since 2002 he has owned a manufacturer of “electronic musical drums and percussion instruments.” He sends me e-mail. Lots of e-mail.
Today I […]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
There Is No Crisis — Don’t Touch That Rail!
Atrios explains why Barack Obama’s new line on Social Security looks like a snafu:
I imagine some readers who haven’t been hanging around these parts for all that long might have justifiably been puzzled at the reaction to Obama’s decision to try to make dealing with Social Security his signature attack on Clinton….
Beating back George Bush’s […]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Patient Zero
PNAS, if I recall correctly, is not the most respected of the scientific journals, but this new report isolating the origins of HIV’s entry into the U.S. seems compelling:
The AIDS virus invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to […]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Of VIPs and VPs
This is an interesting discussion because it reveals just how little insight certain Republicans have into the thinking of the Democratic presidential candidates. It is the informed conventional wisdom of those who cover the campaigns that neither Clinton nor Obama will be seeking additional demographic diversity on their tickets, and instead will both most likely […]
