Mr. Beck -- I can perfectly understand your goal to be perceived as pissing off liberals -- it's a good living in your position. However, your latest submission must be rejected, because the only people who are, er, pissed off about "Piss Christ" at this...
Author: Scott Lemieux
A couple follow-ups to my post about Lincoln and Obama are in order, given the comments. First, Corey Robin makes a good point: Scott, you refer to “people who think.
Conor Kilpatrick has some angry words for people who think that Barack Obama is precisely comparable to Abraham Lincoln and the PPACA precisely comparable to the 13th Amendment. Granted, I.
Some people may have missed it in comments, but there was a debate about D.C. statehood and the malapportionment of the Senate in the Calhoun thread that is worth its own post. Let's combine a couple of Murc comments: DC absolutely should not be a...
How much more Friedman could this be? Well, it could perhaps use more apocryphal cab driver. But otherwise, none more Friedman: President Obama is assembling his new national security team,.
R.I.P. A great man, who had a real impact on history; we need many more of his like than we have. When he said that MLB players were among the.
Mitch McConnell opposes filibuster reform with a truly, truly frightening scenario: “If a bare majority can now proceed to any bill it chooses, and once on that bill, the majority leader, all by himself, can shut out all amendments that aren’t to his liking, then...
It wasn't labor. But at least the executives believed in shared sacrifice to save the company, right? That overlooks the years of union givebacks and management bad faith. Example: Just.
Well, that went about as badly as you would expect. I'm becoming particularly amused by the "it's a dirty, dirty trick to point out the policies on reproductive and LBGT.
I haven't seen Lincoln and hence won't comment on it directly for now, but I can say that this Kushner quote that Aaron Bady [via Corey Robin] found is...not encouraging: The inability to forgive and to reconcile with the South in a really decent and...
This might be the key paragraph in this useful Times description of the increasing gridlock in the Senate: Critics of the idea, who exist in both parties, say such a.
Grudging congratulations to the Argonauts for winning North America's most important football championship. I am, however, disappointed that we didn't get a Gordon Lightfoot/Carly Rae Jespen duet at halftime...