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  • Iowa's 15 minutes...and only one winner in 30 years!

    Every four years Iowa’s activists crawl out of their collective holes to become the political equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil. While they predict the political forecast, the rest of us are perfectly happy to stay burrowed in for the winter. Now the event has morphed into Caucupalooza. Ken Doll candidate John Edwards has Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Kent on January 4, 2008

  • Oh, Lord. Hitchens is not an atheist after all!

    It's interesting to see the avowed atheist Hitchens appealing to the Deity: ''So, once you subtract the breathless rhetoric about 'surge' and 'momentum' and (oh, Lord) ''electability,''....
    Posted to Fighting Words by PeteRonai on January 3, 2008

  • Iowa Democracy & The Price Is Right

    OK, Hitchens, I'm not going to argue too much with you on your latest assessment of the Iowa Caucuses, except to say that this is a strange and messy country that allows the wildly diverse and nutty 50 states to decide exactly what type of primary to hold in the presidential race. As a former British citizen, I assume you can appreciate ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by beverlydavis on January 2, 2008

  • Hitchens is right on all the little things...

    In his argument against the Iowa caucuses, Christopher Hitchens pokes a lot of little holes into the process, but he leaves the main problem untouched. He bemoans the use of “Tammany tactics,” and lists mini-bribes as an example. But the “mini-bribes” that he mentions, would hardly be considered beneficial to the recipients. A big one is free ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by londonbridges on January 2, 2008

  • Hitchens right on the details, but misses the big problem

    In his recent argument against the Iowa caucuses, Christopher Hitchens pokes a lot of little holes into the process, but he leaves the main problem untouched. He bemoans the use of “Tammany tactics,” and lists mini-bribes as an example. But the “mini-bribes” that he mentions, would hardly be considered beneficial to the recipients. A big one ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by londonbridges on January 2, 2008