The Itinerant Canuck

It's a new year and a new Congress. I'm sporting a new haircut. And I have a new blogspace (courtesy of my new employer ). For my p...

Patrick Leahy is hoping to undo a little of the massive damage done by the previous Congress. Here's hoping he succeeds. But even if a...

It's been an eventful, sleep-deprived 48 hours. On a macro level, I'm a very happy guy. I'm particularly excited about Jim Webb...

Juan Cole's barometer for judging failure in Iraq, a la David Letterman: Top Ten Ways we know We have Lost in Iraq

The A.P. is reporting on a just released F.O.I.A request showing that U.S. war games in 1999 substantially predicted the current outcome in...

Good piece by Michael Hirsh of Newsweek on the historical accident of this presidency - an accident that has cost us so much and will contin...

Can this mid-term election get any queerer? 2006 has officially become The Year of The Gay. (Or, in Wonkette's clever formulation: The...

Bill Maher at his hilarious best, taking down Bill Kristol, PNAC, and the neo-con clan and their disastrous, unfailing wrongness. From Crook...