Archives: February 2008

You’d expect it from the editorial page, but not from the WSJ news section.

At 9:56 pm Thursday night, Clinton Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson sent out this statement about Hillary’s concluding, cheer-generating comments at the UT Austin debate: What we saw in the final moments in that debate is why Hillary Clinton is the next President of the United States. Her strength, her life experience, her compassion.

Arab News, a Saudi government media outlet published in English, has an article describing a couple religious scholars supporting the proposition that Islamic law does not in fact prohibit women from driving.

The Wall Street Journal is running an interesting piece on Alexandre Albuquerque, the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Worth a read for anyone interested in just part of what’s at stake in the Law of the Sea ratification debate.

Did I hear Hillary Clinton concede tonight? I think that gesture at the end of the debates, the failure to really go after Barack Obama on a number of fronts, her sitting there with a blank-ish stare for much of the time he got into a high tempo oratory zone indicated to me that she…

Hillary Clinton went out of her way to reference John Edwards a number of times, but it didn’t seem forced. One of her tasks tonight was apparently to position herself as the candidate carrying Edwards’s torch on economic issues. On that, she did a reasonably good job.

(A shorter (very well edited) version of this article appeared on The Guardian‘s “Comment is Free” website.) Damien Corsetti may be the Ron Kovic of our time. Corsetti is one of the featured commentators in Alex Gibney’s powerful, Oscar-nominated film, Taxi to the Dark Side.

Just back from Japan — thanks to Sameer Lalwani and Scott Paul for keeping the wheels rolling while I was in air.

Reuters is reporting an important story on the reinstatement of over a thousand candidates for the March 14th Iranian parliamentary elections who were initially struck from the lists by government committees: Over 2,000 registered candidates out of 7,200 were initially barred by government committees.