Andrew Sullivan pens one of the more level headed walks through the post Cold War era and details where we find ourselves now and where we must go…

The end of the Cold War was an opportunity to create a new one. For some, we now realize, the Cold War was not about democratic values versus [...]

You can find them here.
I’m not going to have time to wade through all of them, but Ambinder has taken a look and shares some of what’s contained within this treasure trove…
** The battle for strategic supremacy and chaos in the campaign
** Mark Penn and the rest of the staff debating gender, politics, Obama’s significance, [...]

I’ve been incorrectly saying “Ossetians” so I’ll use the correct verbiage from here on out. (Looks like both can be used, according to Mikhail Gorbachev)
This little factoid comes from the Times Online, which provides a very good timeline of what has gone down in the past, and sums it up as such…
Russia’s policy is driven [...]

I wonder what Iowans would think about this?
From Chicago Tribune…
PITTSBURGH - Hillary Rodham Clinton loyalists tried Saturday to kill off the caucus system that proved so damaging to her presidential bid, but were beaten back by a Democratic Party leadership firmly under the command of Barack Obama.
Democrats who supported Clinton’s candidacy pushed to amend the [...]

More evidence of what many suspected a Hillary presidency would bring with it: Bill Clinton 2.0.
This extremely revealing little factoid is buried in a story from Politico about the upcoming story from The Atlantic that details hundreds of memos that were leaked to reporter Joshua Green…
The famous 3 a.m. ad, written by Penn and approved [...]

When it rains, it pours…
Edwards had cast himself in his political career as an exemplar of a moral life and a good marriage, and he was a harsh critic of former President Bill Clinton for his Oval Office affair.
“I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of [...]

As the title states, he’s claiming it happened in 2006, so one could argue it wasn’t as sleazy since it wasn’t during the campaign season or while Elizabeth had cancer. Still, why was this woman hired to work on his primary campaign?
In any event, I think it’s curtains for his political career.
In 2006, I made [...]

The Atlantic will tell us how it all went wrong.
From The Trail…
Just when you thought everyone had moved on… former advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a tizzy over an upcoming piece in the Atlantic Monthly that chronicles the inner workings of the now-defunct campaign. Of particular concern are nearly 200 internal memos [...]

“Mr. McCain is the most private person to run for president since Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. He needs to share (or allow others to share) more about him, especially his faith. The McCain and Obama campaigns are mirror opposites. Mr. McCain offers little biography, while Mr. Obama is nothing but.”
- Karl Rove in a [...]

It may work, but I have my doubts since it’s the same “elitist” strategy that Republicans wage year in and year out against Dems.
Here’s his latest ad…

Effective? Maybe. But I have to say that given McCain’s continued campaign throughout the years for “PoliCeleb” status, all of these ads will ultimately ring incredibly hollow. It’s as [...]

Wolf Blizter recently asked Veep contender and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford about the differences between McCain’s economic platform and Bush’s. Result? He couldn’t come up with anything. At that point the chattering class basically 86′d him from the Veep list.
Now Wolf turns his attention to Romney and asks him about McCain’s legislative achievements in [...]

How can we continue to tell folks that this economy works for them when it’s obvious that only folks at the top get the big rewards and none of it ever seems to trickle down?
From Contrarian Profits…
Let us explain how the financial industry worked. A guy borrowed some money from some other guy who borrowed [...]

Disheartening news for the next President…
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US government’s budget deficit is expected to balloon to a record 482 billion dollars in the next fiscal year, largely due to an emergency economic stimulus and a slowing economy, a White House report showed Monday.
The report revealed that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) [...]

Watch…

Now remember, Maliki didn’t just say this once…he said it twice. And then other Iraqi officials said “2010″ specifically. There was no mistranslation. So when McCain says “he won’t,” well, that ship has already sailed. Maliki “has” and McCain not wanting to accept that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
More as it develops…

Apparently it’s not actually torture unless the one doing the interrogation intends to cause severe pain or suffering. And if it “accidentally” happens over the course of months or years, well…you can’t make an omelet…
So how do I know this? Well, the ACLU requested the following memos under the Freedom of Information Act and pieces [...]

Some sage advice for McCain from the columnist who once supported the Iraq war…
While we would like an Iraqi national movement — binding Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis — to coalesce, we don’t want it coalescing in opposition to us. Running against the continued U.S. presence in Iraq will be a very tempting campaign theme [...]

I literally could not believe it when I read it (the article is from February), but here we go…because Obama came from a white mother and a highly educated black father…it follows that he’s more predisposed to be a Communist.
I know, it sounds like the stuff of fiction, but take a read from Lisa Schiffren [...]

My friends, this is why there’s no such thing as a true free market. :-)

Discuss…
(Update: I mistakenly put the image in the wrong tag so it didn’t show up…so I’m sure this post made absolutely NO sense. My apologies. Fixed.)

Actually, our birthday was yesterday since we launched on July 13, 2005. However, I forgot…and as anybody who knows me well, forgetting birthdays in certainly not an uncommon thing for me to do.
So what does 3 years look like?
Well, in that time we’ve had…

3 serious site hacks
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29,860 comments…
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and 2,299,875 page views!

Thanks [...]

Ambinder has the scoop about the announcement…
On Thursday, August 28, Barack Obama plans to accept his nomination at Invesco Field in Denver, rather than at the Pepsi Center.
It’s going to cost the convention committee a lot of money to make the move, but Invesco Field can handle more than 75,000 spectators and will make a [...]