Informed Speculation

I sure hope he’s paid them back: The Clintons’ joint returns show them earning more than $109 million over a period of seven years. The biggest source of income is Bill Clinton’s speeches — source of $51 million. He made another $30 million from books; Hillary made about $10 million from her book. Ye gads…this [...]

…figuratively speaking, of course.  I’m speaking of the first real signs of a possible end to the Democratic race before the convention that I’ve yet seen – a narrowing of the race in Pennsylvania.  While Hillary has to remain the favorite, a new poll has Obama up two, and the RCP average has him down [...]

Way back in February, 2005, when my blog was about three months old, I wrote a slightly-embarrassing-in-retrospect bit of triumphalism crowing about how bloggers had pushed Eason Jordan out of his senior position at CNN when it was revealed that he had accused the American military of, incredibly, targeting journalists(!!). Imagine my surprise when the [...]

For a war supporter, I suppose my silence on the renewed violence in Iraq has been deafening, but not for the reasons you might think.  I’m not afraid to admit that my heart sank at the news that al-Sadr’s truce might be off, and God knows we’ve all had enough killing.  I’ve kept my silence [...]