M.I.A has dropped a new track in response to Lynn Hirschberg’s controversial New York Times article that questions the pop star’s political effectiveness. Hirschberg was dismissive of M.I.A.’s intellectual ability to understand the complexity of the situation in Sri Lanka, among other things. Here are some choice excerpts: Unity holds no allure for Maya — [...]

I think Politico has the wrong angle with regards to this story about the good chunk of cash the Obama campaign took from BP, scourge of the Gulf Coast: While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to [...]

Hello Attackerman readers, and thanks to Spencer for letting me hang out here for a few days. It’s always a pleasure. While Tom Friedman’s reading of the Tea Party Movement is hilariously wrong — a movement of GOP stalwarts isn’t going to embrace anything “green” — it isn’t the worst thing about his column today [...]

Reihan Salam is unhappy with the president’s definition of bipartisanship (via Andrew Sullivan): So when the president claims that the Senate health-care bill he still hopes to salvage includes many Republican ideas, he’s stretching. Republicans wanted interstate competition for insurance policies, allowing New Yorkers to buy South Dakota policies that have fewer expensive mandates. The bill [...]

Maybe I’m being a little too dismissive, but I don’t think it’s necessary to deal with the particulars of Leslie Gelb’s column in today’s Daily Beast, since its main idea patently ridiculous: The negative, even dismissive, talk about the Obama White House has reached a critical point. The president must change key personnel now. Unless [...]

In the wake of last week’s elections and the flurry of “conventional wisdom” (read: warmed-over bullshit) declaring that the Democrats are “in trouble,” the White House is worried about its political prospects and has taken to debating whether or not it will pursue deficit reduction as a political strategy: On the political side, Obama can [...]