Obviously, Krugman versus Paul Ryan isn't a fair fight, but this is nonetheless quite satisfying.
Month: August 2010
Kagan confirmed. I hope she will prove to be a successful appointment.
My favorite nugget in this particular chart is the inspiring tale of the veritable K Street Horatio Alger, Thomas Scully.
Rand Paul lacks both accreditation and a bachelor's degree? Rand Paul, the Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Kentucky, holds a medical degree from Duke University but never received a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, contrary to several media reports in recent months. Baylor officials confirmed...
Like I say, every country has its neocons: In his first interview since his capture after the fall of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's former top deputy Tariq Aziz tells the Guardian.
This is almost surreal. The company that's trying to put forward a Ukranian Antonov aircraft as the new USAF tanker is protesting a decision to reject its bid on account.
Yglesias: Which is simply to say that legal details aside (I’m not a lawyer, but you can play one on TV by reading the decision) this seems like a clear victory for moral justice and nobody has any reason to have mixed feelings about it....
I have an article up at Right Web on conservatives and civilian control of the military: The reaction of right-wing elites to the cashiering of McChrystal represents a genuine improvement.
Shorter Gerard Bradley: "It's outrageous that Thugood Marshall didn't recuse himself from school desegregation cases, and that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor didn't recuse themselves from gender equality.
Asked: So, how are the crazy-cons going to react to the court decision striking down Proposition 8 in California? I ask because we've been hearing that the new right-wing crazies don't care about "values" issues the way the old right-wing crazies did; we've been hearing...
Meet the radical far-left judicial activist who issued the Prop 8 ruling: In other words, this “liberal San Francisco judge” was recommended by Ed Meese, appointed by Ronald Reagan, and.
Shorter Verbatim Assrocket: "Conservatives have long said that the day would come when liberal judges declare the Constitution unconstitutional." Or, to put it in a way with some relation to.