"Sarah Palin Hires Political Advisor". You mean she didn't already have one? No way. I've applied for a few jobs over the past five months, and . . . well . . . at least I didn't get turned down for this one, although it's...
Month: February 2011
Depressing, but not surprising: There have been about 350,000 arrests for marijuana possession since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office in 2002, the policy alliance said. Seventy percent of those.
The anti-ACA lawsuit in Florida really does seem part of a larger desire to return to McKinleynomics. The Tea Party: make sure it doesn't happen to your state.
Wisconsin's new GOP governor is threatening to call in the National Guard to enforce his unilateral revocation of state employee contract rights.
From Jay McInerney's review of Kenneth Slawenski's new Salinger biography: For this reader, the great achievement of Slawenski’s biography is its evocation of the horror of Salinger’s wartime experience. Despite.
And so, huh. Wow. ...suggestion seems to be that the military will take power. Interesting. In the long run, I think it matters A LOT that this went down with.
Marc Lynch shares Charli's judgment about the Mubarak speech: It's hard to exaggerate how bad Hosni Mubarak's speech today was for Egypt. In the extended runup to his remarks, every sign indicated that he planned to announce his resignation: the military's announcement that it had...
PTJ has an interesting idea: I did a little digging and thus far have been completely unable to locate something that I would have thought that someone would have already.
The GOP primary season is shaping up as a reality TV freak show of Springeresque proportions, what with Michele Bachmann about to toss her tinfoil hat in the ring, Donald.
Of course not. Open questions: 1) Did Mubarak gamble that people would be exhausted and react with disappointment instead of anger? 2) Is he hoping the protesters will snap to provide a pretext for a violent crackdown? 3) What was his speechwriter smoking? BBC reports...
Obviously, I agree with Ann and Matt. In particular, I'm not going to go along with the dominant centrist wisdom that pro-choicers should concede up front that abortion is immoral.
Not surprising, of course: The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some.