Author: Meteor Blades

A word of preface: If you think what Team George has done in Iraq is a good thing, that the occupation there seems to be unfolding as well as can be expected and that objections to what’s going on are unpatriotic, betray...

The tragedy wrought by Katrina provides a chance to do what Mayor Ray Nagin said George Bush told him after the head-bumping died down last week: New Orleans can be remade into “a shining example for the whole...

It would make a great movie. Straightforward plot. Characters bigger than life. Stunning success against difficult odds after initial failure. At the behest of two of the most powerful brothers in U.S. history, the aristocratic...

[From the diaries by susanhu.][Cross-posted at The Next Hurrah] Not so long ago, I found it hard to imagine that we could wind up with a worse U.N. Ambassador than Jeane Kirkpatrick, a neoconservative at a time when few on the...

By Meteor Blades [Cross-posted at The Next Hurrah]. Montana, that spark of Democratic hope, offers a teensy bit of that scarce stuff on the energy regulation front. But, first, an introduction. It’s taken Dick Cheney and...