From an email sent by Del.  Bob Marshall : In fact, two well-connected friends have told me that Senator Jim Webb is interested in the Secretary of Defense position in the new Administration.  If he were offered the position and he accepted, that would leave Jim Webb’s U.S. Senate seat open....

Shall it be the Congolese goat stew or the Scottish red-legged partridge? The yam leaves in peanut paste with salted fish, or the wild rabbit terrine? We decide to go for a bit of everything. I'm having dinner with the artist Carsten Höller in his latest project, the Double Club. This is a bar,...

Asked what it would mean if Lieberman kept his chairmanship, one Senate Democratic aide said bluntly: “The left has been foiled again. They can rant and rage but they still do not put the fear into folks to actually change their votes. Their influence would be in question.” That’s ...

Glenn Greenwald takes a shot at one of Rob's and my personal bugaboos - the cry from Obama and the DLC/BD Caucus of conservative Dems that there's been too much hyperpartisanship in Washington. Glenn wants to know "What partisanship?" Where is the evidence of the supposed partisan ...

One of the most amusing moments from the last presidential debate before the election was when Obama and McCain discussed Colombia. It was interesting at least to see that Obama would criticise the Colombian regime for not prosecuting the murderers of labour leaders. McCain's eyebrows went fucking w...

I generally don't give a shout out to mean people that do not find me fetching, wise and cute. But today I am going to make an exception. He says he is No More Mr. Nice Guy and calls himself Normaless , but he is really quite an exceptional ass. Like so many of my readers, friends and casual sex par...

JTA’s Eric Fingerhut must’ve had a really slow news day because he chose to write up a previously reported interview Alan Dershowitz gave to that august forum of Jewish media excellence, Shalom TV. There Der Dersh recounted one of his Samsonian fever dreams in which he single-handedly sa...

Powerline called my attention to this site - HowObamaGotElected.com. They found the most educated and informed Obama voters they could find, and asked them 12 questions to see how much they knew about Obama/Biden, and how much they knew about Sarah Palin. 512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4...

Texas Jury Speaks: Shotgun And Alberto Indicted For Abusing American Federal Prisoners Any bets these two criminals earn a pardon from their “head honcho”, President Bush, before it’s all said and done with? A South Texas jury, according to The Associated Press (Source: Houston... ...

You’d think that after two years of being the majority in both houses of Congress and making gains in the recent election, not to mention winning the Presidency, that the Democrats would have grown some balls, but you’d be wrong: Today in a closed-door meeting, Senate Democrats voted 42-...