Week of November 16, 2009

Eye-opener: NYT review of new book on how Teddy Roosevelt totally screwed up foreign policy--and caused WW II.

Robert KC Johnson

A rare shout-out to my favorite former Alaska senator, in Chris Hitchens' dissection of a fawning Palin book.

That the McCain team never seems to have understood just how much Alaska politics differed from that of the Lower 48 is one of many failures in the vetting process that netted Palin.