These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

Yesterday afternoon Roy Edroso put up a post mocking Stanley Kurtz, whom I always confuse with Howard Kurtz, the same way liberals keep confusing Naomi Klein with Naomi Wolf. Kurtz had claimed in a National Review Online Post that President Obama, "still every inch the Alinskyite organizer, ... talks about uniting, even as he deliberately polarizes. He moves incrementally toward radical left

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

Yesterday afternoon Roy Edroso put up a post mocking Stanley Kurtz, whom I always confuse with Howard Kurtz, the same way liberals keep confusing Naomi Klein with Naomi Wolf. Kurtz had claimed in a National Review Online Post that President Obama, "still every inch the Alinskyite organizer, ... talks about uniting, even as he deliberately polarizes. He moves incrementally toward radical left

Laugh, and the World Laughs with You

At alicublog this morning, Roy Edroso came perilously close to criticizing President Obama:The big tax-cut giveaway Obama just announced -- assuming that it accurately portrays the deal with the GOP -- demonstrates one unremarked fact: Republicans don't give a shit about the deficit. No sane person thinks we can even begin to scale that back just with cuts. Yet they just agreed to abandon

Laugh, and the World Laughs with You

At alicublog this morning, Roy Edroso came perilously close to criticizing President Obama:The big tax-cut giveaway Obama just announced -- assuming that it accurately portrays the deal with the GOP -- demonstrates one unremarked fact: Republicans don't give a shit about the deficit. No sane person thinks we can even begin to scale that back just with cuts. Yet they just agreed to abandon