Month December 2010

Polizeros hiccuped, back to normal now

If you noticed things looked a bit weird here today, it was because the BlogTalkRadio widget I used for our podcast seriously borked the theme. In IE and Chrome, the sidebar was blank and everything that should have been there…

Wikileaks and Assange. Shoot the messenger

The apoplectic reaction by the US political establishment to the latest Wikileaks dossier has been revelatory in its illustration of an empire in decline, via its increasingly desperate attempts to maintain its reach through a combination of overt military aggression,…

Democrats having nervous breakdown

Mark Halperin in Time Is it hyperbolic to say the Democratic Party is in the midst of a nervous breakdown? I have been covering national politics since 1988, and I don’t remember a situation quite like this. The signs…