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    I have not always been a fan of Biden for among other things his unreconstructed white guy-isms.  That said, he…
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  • You suggest the larger point that like it or not we have a system that requires coalition building in order…
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  • My people are from Butte, MT, which is a very Democratic pocket because of a union tradition.  There's Missoula as…
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  • It's moments like these that make me glad I'm not a hair fetishist.
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  • You got deadpan down.
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  • You're right placing it there.
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  • I don't think that Obama, Reid, or Pelosi are actually losers.  They don't always win in the way I'd like,…
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  • Wait.  Bin Laden was not nor was he ever--nor have I ever heard anyone, even the most hawkish hawk--suggest that…
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  • But Omar is not the whole Taliban.  Divide and conquer, Jack.
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  • It's worth noting that "police work" led to Bin Laden's death.
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  • I got the impression that the deal was "pay us money and leave us alone."
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  • I have read a number of places that Bin Laden was not at all loved by the Taliban in general.…
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  • Also, I did a lot of study in European History.  Not to suggest your base of knowledge is lacking there,…
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  • To be clear, I have no problem with the Declaration of Independence and think it to have had an overwhelmingly…
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  • I've never seen any evidence that Hurria, to whom you responded, has a simplistic view of world affairs.  He by…
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  • I find it very difficult to project too much into Obama's mind.  I am fairly sure given how he observably…
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  • The Soviet Union did not collapse with the Iron Curtain.  That was two years later.  The economics are fundamental.  In…
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  • I am pleased as Punch that the troops are leaving, and credit the President for this.  That said, it is…
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  • Actually, more to the point was Gorbachev's canning of economic planners without any gradual transition.  Without price controls, prices rose,…
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  • Cesaria Evora died today as well.  She was such a beautiful person and singer. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/story/2011-12-18/cesaria-evora-dies/52048198/1
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