Month: January 2005
In honor of MLK day, David Ehrenstein has a great post on John F. Kennedy's (The "F" stands for "It's never the right time") attempts to strenuously avoid any political risk.
There are two major potential drawbacks to litigation as a strategy. One--that it is particularly likely to generate a backlash--I recently discussed. The other is captured by Matthew Yglesias's "fat.
It's not every day that major bloggers are discussing the subject of my dissertation research, so I suppose I'll dive in to the discussion between Nathan Newman and Kevin Drum. This is.
Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan are largely untroubled by the fact that we've been carrying out covert operations in Iran in order to figure out the best targets for.
The fallacy Scott identifies in the post immediately below needs a pithy, clever name or acronym (I'm bad at this sort of thing--suggestions?), and the community of liberals needs to.
Matthew Yglesias points us to a Michael Lind article about how the Dems would win if they pandered more to middle-class suburbanites, and identifies a major problem pretty much endemic to.
Sadly, No! points us to a typically tragi-comic exchange in which our president, once again, demonstrates his inability to remember the various twists and turns in language manipulation, this time.
I suspected that the NY media would go further than Yglesias's throwaway comment after the terrific Jets/Steelers game (congrats to frequent commenter gmack!) yesterday in turning Jet kicker Doug Brien into.