Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.
A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice
The social conservatives seems to have won the battle over CPAC.
The media are wildly exaggerating the heckling at a gathering of conservatives.
The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.
By this point in the last presidential cycle, there were already 14 major party candidates who had publicly announced. There are zero today.
Two Ohio congressional districts are taking their talents to South Beach.
Sarah Palin’s reality show as as popular as the critically acclaimed drama everyone’s talking about. And that’s just half the story.
Republicans were largely silent during the Bush Administration as spending went out of control. Will they do that again?
The Washington Independent goes dark in December, failing to find profitability in three years.
She didn’t gain national prominence until late August, and she’s going to most likely lost by a wide margin tonight, but Christine O’Donnell received more coverage from the media than any other candidate running in 2010.
Affluent whites are astounded that Adrian Fenty appears about to lose his bid for re-election as DC’s mayor. But the majority black population is less than thrilled with his tenure.
Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.
FOX reports that the entire combat phase of the Iraq War will cost less than President Obama’s stimulus. That’s not a useful comparison.
The Washington Post Company, which famously accepted Dave Weigel’s resignation from its namesake newspaper last month, has hired him back in essentially the same job for its online magazine Slate.
Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.
Over at The Daily Dish, Dave Weigel hit the nail on the head in his criticism of Andrew Sullivan’s bizarre obsession with a two year-old infant.
There is an al Qaeda link to yesterday’s terrorist attack in Uganda.
Topics include the Kagan hearings, the Dave Weigel brouhaha, and Russian spies.
Magazines routinely run great pieces by highly biased writers. Why can’t newspapers do the same?
Does it matter if the controversial McChrystal comments were “off the record” ? No, it doesn’t.
A roundup of some of the more intelligent commentary on the Big Picture issues in the brouhaha of the day.
Do journalists have any expectation of privacy in their emails?
You know who would be a good replacement for him at the Right Now blog? David Petraeus.
Man running for United States Senate shocked to learn that he has to be careful what he says.
Sharing your unvarnished thoughts on a listserv is just asking for trouble, as Dave Weigel is the latest to discover.
Mitt Romney is the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican nomination. Aside from it being Romney’s “turn,” he’s got very strong organization and fundraising capabilities and has demonstrated the ability to get through a campaign without committing major gaffes.