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A July 4th Celebration

5:10:08 PM: It’s been a rock ‘n roll day at our house, compliments of Deep Tracks. Happy 4th to all. Fireworks in DC tonight! 5:12:28 PM: Thinking about our soldiers and the families who support them. Hu-rah. We toast you tonight. 6:29:40 PM: Walkin’ in. Past marshes.. beauty of a waterbird… and bull frogs! What a night.  

Sarah, Don’t Leave

If Palin wants to run in 2012, why not do exactly what she announced today? It’s an enormous gamble - but it could be a shrewd one. - Bill Kristol Frankly, it’s just too depressing to think we won’t have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore. It’s hard to accept when looking forward. Mark Sanford’s heartbroken read more..

Sarah Bails on Governorship

–updates below– Buchanan analyzes; Palin’s statement Sarah Palin is not only not seeking re-election, but she’s stepping down as governor at the end of July, not finishing her first term. This is the latest wacky turn for Sarah Palin whose explosive entrance on to the national scene has been anything but graceful. What’s the back story? “Faith and family are read more..

Syria’s al-Assad Moves Against ‘Honor Killings’

On this Independence Day weekend, we here at TM.com acknowledge the decree of President Bashar al-Assad as a small step forward for women in the Middle East. Syria has scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences handed down to men convicted of killing female relatives they suspect of having illicit sex. Women’s groups had long read more..

Yosemite Bolton Still Spinning Israeli Strike

“We see how coverage has gone down since Michael Jackson died.” - Trita Parsi Before the conversation today with Trita Parsi on Iran, the small group assembled couldn’t resist talking about John Bolton’s op-ed on Iran in the Washington Post today. It starts with a stunning premise, as the headline reveals: Time for an Israeli Strike? read more..

Washington Post Marketing Ploy Implodes

I’ve been watching this unravel since it was announced, waiting for the cancellation of this horrific idea, because otherwise I was going to quit my subscription and never rely on the WP again. Howard Kurtz has Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth’s comments on the matter, but also some of the gory details. The fliers, circulated by read more..

Biden in Iraq

…with Stephanopoulos in tow. From the White House: Vice President Biden in Iraq to Meet with Iraqi Leaders and Visit U.S. Troops Vice President Biden has arrived in Iraq to visit U.S. troops and to meet with Iraqi leaders, including President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Speaker of the Council of Representatives Ayad al-Samarrai. The read more..

Dems Get Hit at Home on Health Care

–updated– Can there be any doubt what these job loss numbers mean? More people will be struggling to keep their health care insurance. However, when you’re getting big money from insurance companies, which includes many Democrats, it seems you’re willing to ignore the needs of million and millions of people. Mary Landrieu is getting hit hard at home. Kay read more..

Let Ahmadinejad ‘Fret and Sweat’

That’s Roger Cohen’s prescription now on Iran, after what we’ve seen the last weeks. The slow arc of moral justice is fine but Iran is gripped by the fierce urgency of now. Obama, the realist on whom idealism is projected, is obliged to make a course correction. I say all this with a heavy heart. Non-communication between read more..

Sarah’s Soap Opera Continues

Illustration by Risko via MSNBC screen capture Sarah “little shop of horrors” Palin continues to be fueled by drama. You can say a lot of things about Gov. Palin, as Todd Purdum’s delicious Palin take down proves. But playing the political victim has certainly gotten Sarah a long way. But with Gov. Sanford’s meaning of “is” read more..

It’s Sestak v. Specter

Rep. Joe Sestak is in: “I am going to get into the race against Arlen Specter … for senator,” said Sestak in his first media interview as part of a three-week tour through all of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties.  

Clinton on Iran in Washington Times

There’s a curious article in the Washington Times that Secretary Clinton was the one who urged Obama to “toughen his language on Iran.” This is interesting on multiple levels, not coincidentally coming after the Politico story describing Clinton’s role through “toils in the shadows… grindstone leadership” at State. Nothing will ever convince me that Secretary read more..

‘WTF’ in Afghanistan Means No More Troops

Bob Woodward writes the must read article of the day from Camp Leatherneck, which has NSA chief James Jones stating what Secretary Gates has said many times before. Obama is capping troops levels in Afghanistan, at least for the short term but maybe indefinitely, where they are today, which is still high, but it does read more..

Dear Jenny, Dump Him

It’s time for an intervention. It’s bipartisanship I can wholeheartedly endorse. It’s also the latest adventure into what the meaning of “is” is, by variation. In a stupefying interview of extreme confessional proportions for a politician trying to save himself, Gov. Mark Sanford reaches down for more stupid. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that he read more..

MN Supreme Court Orders Franken to be Certified Senator

BREAKING…. NORM COLEMAN CONCEDES Norm Coleman has now lost every challenge he’s entered in to trying to wrestle this Senate seat back from the jaws of defeat. The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race. - AP It’s over to Gov. Pawlenty.