Just noticed this quote from The Wealth of Nations in a recent Glennzilla post on Slate’s series of articles by liberal hawks on why they got Iraq so wrong (a series I simply had to finally stop reading, so transparently self-serving were the explanations offered):
In great empires the people who live in the capital, and [...]

McCain increasingly seems to be little more than a pale shadow of who he has pretended to be. The latest, more pre-election scaremongering idiocy calculated to drive - um - less-than-reflective people towards him in the general. Simple observation: those who want to hurt America would love nothing more than to have many, [...]

An exceptional comment on Glenn Greenwald’s exceptional post about Monster-gate and off-the-record comments. Glennzilla’s post is now updated, including with this depressingly accurate precis of where we are on MSM political reporting:
Even after the lead-up to Iraq War, eight years of the Bush administration, the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fiascoes and an [...]