I think Joan gets it right. On balance, I think it's quite possible that giving up even this very thin veneer of bipartisanship would produce a better bill on balance, although given the number of conservative Dems it's arguable.
Month: October 2009
Orly Taitz, the enterprising lawyer who has filed various lawsuits alleging that Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be president of the United States, has achieved the perhaps unique legal.
As requested in the comments to my last post and via a couple of emails, here's a general outline of the course I teach on visual rhetoric. (If you find.
We're all liberal fascists now.
I heartily endorse this proposal [slide 4] to redesign American currency, if only because replacing Andrew Jackson with Duke Ellington on the $20 would, in and of itself, justify the.
On some level, taking Ceci Connolly to task for acting as a stenographer for insurance company interests willfully attempting to deceive the public is like criticizing a camel for having.
He only raped one little girl.
I'll be in the air during most if not all of the final round of qualifying for South Africa 2010, so I will miss a few mini dramas: Uruguay v.
Jeffrey Herf has taken to The New Republic in an effort to convince Americans that negotiations will go nowhere unless we threaten Tehran with an extensive bombing campaign. Herf is.
Michael Ledeen, December 5, 2006:Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is lying in a “royal suite” in the spiffy Vanak hospital (that’s its old name, which most Tehranis use) in Tehran. He wanted to leave today but the doctors would not permit it. I guess doctors have the...
I'm not sure if this is really good news or not, for this reason:So Senator Snowe takes the leap, becoming almost certainly the only Republican, at least on this committee,.
Joe Posnanski points out the rather amazing statistical quirk that Washington's NFL franchise won't play a team that will have won a game until the seventh week of the season.