Paul Waldman is making sense: So the local government, the one that’s supposed to be in touch with the people, is not only out of touch, it’s making their lives miserable. The events in Ferguson have also shown us a case of inept local government...
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The premise of the Halbig majority is that if close attention to isolated textual clauses produces an outcome that will cause millions of people to lose health care coverage, "with.
Charles C. Johnson. My mind cannot fully grasp the fact that a comically inept (although AWARD WINNING!) blogger safely in California feels compelled to inform you that he's morally superior.
Megan McArdle argues that it would have been better for everyone, including Democrats, had Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination in 2008. Why? Because she would have bailed on comprehensive health care reform. Let's start with the easier, normative question first: I’m actually going to...
This is well-executed: Though Missouri is infamous abroad for its simmering sectarian tensions and brutal regime crackdowns, foreign visitors here are greeted warmly and with hospitality. A lawless expanse of.
I first saw it in non-Twitter form here, but Simon Maloy apparently deserves the credit for inventing the "Moops" analogy to describe the Halbig litigation. And not only was his.
I see the Seattle Times op-ed page is still pushing abject nonsense about the estate tax. [via]
Rick Perry is awful, but the indictment against him is a joke. In the file marked "the real scandal is what's legal," here's an excellent primer on Perry's cronyism.
Thomas Frank has another in his "why doesn't Obama use his unilateral authority to cause the Republican Party to spontaneously combust" series up: President Obama is in the doldrums. He.
Michael Dorf, in his follow-up post on the University of Illinois's violation of academic freedom: As Brian Leiter notes, there is a move afoot to boycott the University of Illinois in response to its un-hiring of Salaita. I dislike academic boycotts generally, and I think...
I'm generally a fan of Tyler Kepner, but yikes this is a really bad argument: Alas, Steinbrenner acknowledged that Rodriguez would be back next season. No surprise there: Teams tend.
You will be unsurprised that Glenn Reynolds has no problem with academics being fired for the political content of their Twitter feeds: A FACULTY CANDIDATE WHO TALKED ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.