A big controversy erupted back in April when Ted Kennedy called Iraq “George Bush’s Vietnam;” commentators on the right like Instapundit and Jonah Goldberg accused Kennedy of preaching defeatism, while people on the left, like Mark Kleiman and Matt Ygl…

Okay, I don’t actually not like Ted Barlow, but his latest post is not exactly his best work. Short version of his post: Mickey Kaus linked to a story in which the writer talks about how John Kerry brought him…

I generally prefer to blog on a subject like last week’s Kos Kontroversy when I’ve got sufficient uninterrupted blogging time to unpack all its implications, but I haven’t had that kind of time lately and the issue’s getting a bit…

Senator Edward Kennedy says so – and conservatives have decried the comparison, saying that Kennedy doesn’t want American to win in Iraq. Is that criticism justified? I don’t think so – I think that Kennedy was making a very different…

Mark Kleiman catches Glenn Reynolds loudly condemning not what Ted Kennedy actually said, but rather what he’s misportrayed Kennedy as having said. It’s not an admirable thing to do, but I’m not sure why Mark’s so surprised. Glenn’s the one…