. . . as Hillary supporters who don’t like the fact that 2 + 2 = 4 threaten to bolt the Democratic Party unless it declares that, for this election year only, 2 + 2 = 5.
. . . as a conservative talk-show host who learned to say “Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser” in the […]

A handful of notes from the blogosphere on last night’s Democratic primaries:
Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings, pointing out that despite her embrace of the phony gas-tax holiday, Hillary lost North Carolina and won Indiana in a squeaker: “Senator Clinton gambled on the stupidity of the voters, and she lost. That is truly worth celebrating.” Hilzoy also […]

Here’s your Quote of the Day from Glenn Greenwald, on news that Democrats Schumer and Feinstein will vote in favor of Michael Mukasey’s AG nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee, bringing an end to a couple of days of theatrical handwringing over the nomination: “When Bush says: ‘9/11-AlQaeda-Terrorism-GiveMeX,’ Democrats always ensure that he gets ‘X.’ […]

Here’s your Quote of the Day, from Rudy Giuliani, speaking in 1994:
Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what […]

And now, Best of the Blogs presents former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, currently seeking the Republican nomination for President of the United States, speaking to the New York Times:
Neither one of these two wars – the one in Afghanstan/Pakistan or the one in Iraq – was nearly at the level of the […]

At the Carpetbagger Report, reader Ed Stephan responds to a post about media stories talking up the “inexperience” of Barack Obama (a post that wonders, as well anyone might, why no one in the media talks much about the relatively greater inexperience of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani) by suggesting that Americans have become […]

Quote of the Day from the Rude Pundit, on how we ought to be spending our summer:
If this was a real democracy, we’d be out in the streets shutting the nation down until Bush resigned, taking Cheney with him. The unions would call for general strikes, as would immigrant rights groups, poverty groups, families of […]

There’s an interesting discussion going on at Lance Mannion’s blog jumping off from a post about just why it is that Beltway insiders keep calling for unity and compromise when it’s clear to most people that such a thing is impossible. The insiders keep begging despite the fact that compromise between Democrats and Repugs looks […]

Anthony Circosta is a decorated Iraq war veteran who wanted to be a police officer when he got home. But he has an assault conviction on his record, so he needed a pardon from the governor of his state, Mitt Romney, to become a cop. The Massachusetts Board of Pardons recommended Circosta get the pardon. […]

Quote of the day from Bill Maher, after Jimmy Carter called Bush the worst president ever:
I mean, who would you rank lower than George W. Bush? Nixon got in trouble for illegally wiretapping Democratic headquarters; Bush is illegally wiretapping the entire country. Nixon opened up relations with the Chinese; Bush let them poison your dog. […]