First they came for the sexual deviants, and I said nothing….

The Democrats are going to lose big this fall, especially in the House. I don’t think anyone is disputing this. What is worth debating is why we’re going to see such a dramatic reversal of the gains that were won in 2006 and 2008.

While the media proclaims the end of the Iraq war, we leave behind 1/3 of our forces and a devastated country.

Some soldiers balked when ordered to go see “christian rock” band BarlowGirl and so instead they were grounded and they had to stay inside and clean their rooms and it was totally not fair:

Times columnist Tom Friedman watched the movie Invictus and writes that he wishes Iraq’s leaders would emulate Nelson Mandela’s “we have to surprise them,” by displaying religious/ethnic tolerance and magnanimous statesmanship in Iraq, because, I guess, Suck. On. This diplomacy is, uh, not helpful.

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It has often been said that politics is the art of the possible. The heart of this concept is the whip count.

Yesterday morning we saw the sudden swirl of news that Julian Assange had been charged by Swedish authorities with two criminal counts – one for rape, one for molestation. Assange immediately denied all charges and many of us share his belief that such charges look like one trick in a US assault on the site and its founder.

Think the Teabaggers are pushing the GOP towards a more secular, libertarian brand of politics? Then you should look at this post by CNN contributor Erick Erickson, defending Franklin Graham for claiming that Obama was “born a Muslim.” It’s a helpful reminder of just how interwoven the conservative movement still is with fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity.

Why are the reasonably well-off commenters at the Wall Street Journal so hostile?