The Washington Independent

Posts Tagged Left

The Rest is Silence

By | 02.09.09 | 9:35 am

I’d like to know what Kyle Smith thinks of Will Ferrell’s one-man play about former President George W. Bush. Instead, the New York Post’s writer spends eight of 11 paragraphs moaning about a joke in which Bush/Ferrell’s “moment of silence for the troops” is interrupted by a fake phone More…

Do We Really Have To Call Steve Kappes A Torturer?

By | 01.06.09 | 11:50 am

First Read reported that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) choice for CIA director is current deputy director Steve Kappes. Kappes, unlike Leon Panetta, is a consummate intelligence professional. He played a key role in the nuclear disarmament of Libya, speaks Persian and Russian, and was purged by Porter Goss More…

Progressives Could Lose a Small Battle to Win the Big War

By | 12.08.08 | 2:17 pm

Atrios, utilizing his trademark, uh, panache, offers a very well-reasoned response to the small but vocal segment of “the Left” who are angry about President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet choices so far: