Matt Yglesias has some shrewd thoughts picking up on Ann Coulter’s latest remarks to the effect that eventually and ideally all Jews will be ‘perfected’ and thus become Christians. But I have a different question. Is Ann Coulter actually trying to pass herself off as a believing member of the Christian right? A born again even? I buy the crypto-fascist hate-monger schtick. And I always assumed that Coulter was happy to be seen as one of that breed of New York ‘wingers who pass respectfully past the moral bag of goods they don’t live by and just generally kick liberal ass. But hardcore believing Christian on the lifestyle front?
Spencer Ackerman has more on that victims’ suit against Blackwater that I mentioned earlier.
Charlie Rose is going to have Blackwater CEO Erik Prince on tomorrow Monday night.
White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is reorganizing his campaign, deploying key staff from the Chicago headquarters to Feb. 5 primary states while bolstering the ranks of his top leadership.
The move, Obama advisers told the Sun-Times, has been long planned and is not a reaction to the lead chief rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has in national and early state polls.
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Turkey recalls its US Ambassador for ‘consultations’ after Armenian genocide vote in the House.
Rudy Giuliani has just announced a new raft of foreign policy advisors. And I guess the premise of the campaign is now that the Bush administration wasn’t sufficiently riddled by neoconservative whackjobs.
Topping the list: Michael Rubin as Senior Iran and Turkey Advisor and Middle East Advisory Board Member.
I really don’t know how to describe Rubin for those who aren’t familiar with him. He worked at Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans. But that hardly does the matter justice — rather like saying Dick Cheney was a supporter of the Iraq War. On the TPM Scale of Pure Neoconism (TM) Rubin gets well over 99%. Like the most interesting and frightening neos, Michael is that perfect mix of extreme factual knowledge and extreme lack of judgment, prone to wild-eyed theories and fantasies of various sorts but all in the end leading inexorably toward catastrophic policy moves for the United States.
You really might as well put Ahmed Chalabi as your top Mideast or Iran advisor.
Mitt Romney tries to harness the anti-Rudy backlash from religious conservatives.
Salon’s Tim Grieve has a hilarious take-down of today’s David Ignatius column on Barack Obama.
Haven’t read it and don’t know anything about it. But Prince of Darkness Richard Perle: The Kingdom, The Power & The End of Empire in America just arrived in the mail.
Dana Perino riffs on the President’s morning call with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki . . . and on Turkey and the PKK: