So listless is the body politic, apparently, that falling asleep during this morning’s Stephanopoulis edition was more of a danger than choking on my outrage. Or at least the right side of that body; the center left is anything but listless, but the SCLM is inured to influence from actual liberals.

Joe Biden was the featured guest, there to do battle against the latest model of Republican attack on Democrats - as Nazi appeasers. George Stephanopoulis offered three samples for Biden to react to, from Cheney, Bush himself, and Condi Rice.

Biden did just fine, with a minimum of his usual “me, myself, and I” tendencies.  Read more 

I’m sure some of our NSA/DoD readers think I’m some kind of left wing wacko who spits on troops and burns flags, but that’s not really true. In that spirit, let’s forget about the war for a second and talk about this. I’m posting the whole thing, but if you go to the site you’ll find that many live links are embedded in the page. Good job, soldiers!

Not that long ago, the idea of the Sierra Club and the Army Corps of Engineers working on the same side of an issue might’ve seemed silly. But these days, the Army sees dependence on foreign oil as a major national security risk. And so the engineers are calling on DC to make a bunch of changes straight out of the environmentalists’ playbook — like mandating better gas mileage and giving out tax credits for green energy. (Although the bit about “open[ing] up Federal lands for oil and natural gas” might not exactly be met with huzzahs at Sierra HQ.)  Read more