And to add to what Krugman says here in defense of using Romney's Bain record against him, it's worth noting that Republicans have come up with a great scam: the Ryan plan to gut Medicare in order to finance upper-class tax cuts is so "cartoonishly...
Month: July 2012
Shorter Bill James: Of course Joe Paterno bears no responsibility for the cover up of Jerry Sandusky's crimes -- he retired retroactively in 1997. I also want to declare Tom.
The remarkable story Paul excerpts below really draws a line under Paul's earlier point about the holier-than-thou sanctimony Paterno showed toward Barry Switzer et al. Switzer's crimes involved playing fast.
In January 2011, Joe Paterno learned prosecutors were investigating his longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky for sexually assaulting young boys. Soon, Mr. Paterno had testified before a grand jury, and the rough outlines of what would become a giant scandal had been published in a...
In the rich conservative tradition of declaring Bryce Harper a conservative hero because he plays hard unlike those black Democrats like Jason Heyward, I bring you the brilliant Conservapedia entry.
The following is a guest post by Colin Snider of Americas South and North. While the US media is understandably focused on its own presidential elections this year, they are.
For whatever reason, the great Bill James has from the beginning of the Sandusky case going public been an apologist for Joe Paterno and his role in covering up the crimes of the serial child rapist who was his former defensive coordinator. Since many of...
Glenn Kessler. See also. Kessler, you may remember, also endorsed the decision of the most useless website in the known universe to make perfectly defensible claims about Paul Ryan's plans.
I was sitting in a Juneau bar last night when Loomis messaged me about this absurdity by Arthur Herman, who currently appears to be packing away the silver cutlery in.
33 years ago Joe Paterno had the poor judgment to remark in front of a reporter at a social gathering that he couldn’t retire from college football, because doing so would leave the game in the hands of coaches like Jackie Sherrill and Barry Switzer....
Fred Hiatt sees fit to give the EMP nutjobs (no less a statesman than Newt!) a platform: I write this now because of my concern for national security and our.
You people and your demands for me to continue this series. When I was at Netroots Nation, I had several people, including Dave Dayen from Firedoglake, come up to me.