Even more to the point: to me, Richard Cohen is a fog of a man; we don't know all that much about him. I think we should find out what church or synagogue he attends, and then see if there has ever been anything in any of that institution's publications that we can hang on him (and his employer).

In the real world, if it gets unbearable, you part ways with the religious group, finding another congregation or maybe even affiliation. In the meantime, you occasionally roll your eyes.

Posted at January 15, 2008 11:35 AM in response to Dirt

Umm, unless she's a junior now, she's too late for ED. Aren't regular decision aps due this month?

Posted at January 9, 2008 9:07 PM in response to Islamofascist Nonsense

Anyway, glad to have you back--to what you do best--from the land of political screeds.

Posted at January 9, 2008 9:03 PM in response to Islamofascist Nonsense

If experience alone was crucial, we should all push for a Draft Cheney movement. He, more than anyone else in American history, has the experience--and knows how to move the bureaucracy.

What is wrong with this picture?

Judgment counts too.

I'm not saying Obama is ideal; I wish his criticism of the national surveillance state, preemptive war theories and USA as hegemon was more thoroughgoing.

But just as I am, post-Iraq, a lot more willing to listen to Scott Ritter's opinions about proliferation than the neo-cons', I am more willing to support an early war critic than someone who still sees nothing wrong with her own voting record on these issues.

And, while we're at it on experience, how many G-8 meetings has she sat in on, let alone chaired? How many arms-reduction talks? How many Rwanda crisis meetings?

Posted at January 2, 2008 6:49 PM in response to No Time for Amateurs

Anyone (like Reid, Biden, Dodd, Edwards and, yes, Senator Clinton) who voted against the Levin Amendment (see M. J. Rosenberg's piece) has some complicity in the U.S. taking its eye off the ball and instead going off on the Iraq/remaking the Middle East/neo-con wet dream frolic.

Does that put any of them, with a gun in hand, outside a Rawalpindi PPP rally? Of course not.

Mr. Johnson, your commentaries are usually more reasoned--and more reasonable--than this screed.

Posted at December 28, 2007 10:55 AM in response to Hillary, Murdering Bitch

As a public policy person "coaching" the Redskins by electronic means, you're pretty good, Reed--but Dick Nixon was better.

(Lives in Irving, TX)

Posted at October 2, 2007 11:01 AM in response to Deadskins Redux

Wait a minute!! Be nice to somebody from Columbia?? What's with that?

Posted at July 16, 2007 6:05 PM in response to Vacation Open Thread

Don't forget the Congressional cut-off of funds for Clinton/Somalia...

Posted at May 21, 2007 10:54 AM in response to The power of the purse and the future of America's security

OMG! Ganz is gonna undo all of Professor Kingsfield's good work in making One L's "think like a lawyer"--and turn their brains back into mush!

Whatever is the world coming to?

Posted at March 29, 2007 12:57 PM in response to Staying Connected to Our Moral Sources

Well, two union Presidents that I knew personally ended up in Federal penitentiaries, so I know a little about this subject (and I have a wonderfully funny Central States anecdote that I can't put up here (but would share privately)).

All I can say is that when a ranking union official begins hankering to play golf at private country clubs, that is NOT a good sign.

Posted at March 8, 2007 7:36 PM in response to Myth of Union Corruption