Jim Webb gives us a familiar story: Webb voted for the law, but also for more than a dozen GOP-offered amendments to it. “If you were going to do something of this magnitude, you have to do it with some clarity, with a clear set...
Author: Scott Lemieux
That only about a quarter of the public can name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is not surprising. One implication of this, given the speculation that will surround.
Janice Rogers Brown, appointed by George W. Bush to the august D.C. Circuit., argues that the courts should start throwing out economic regulations she doesn't like. Based...well, not on any.
Shorter Tom Friedman: I shall celebrate my Wanker of the Decade title by writing a column about how we need a third party candidate who represents moderate conservative values already vastly overrepresented in the Beltway for the 8 millionth time.
Hard to argue with this choice. The thing about the definitive "suck on this" moment is how utterly asinine the surrounding analysis is. How, exactly, is terrorism like a stock-market.
I greatly enjoyed Jason Zengerle's interview with Barney Frank, but I'm puzzled that Frank continues to take the Rahm Emanuel line on health care reform: When Obama made the same.
Merits a particularly strong MZS essay.
Virginia Heffernan reads Katie Roiphe so you don't have to: Over a series of bad-faith and gibberish paragraphs, she sets up the reader as a hayseed who is turned on.
The pitches thrown to Cody Ross in the last AB in today's Red Sox/Rays game. 3 were called strikes. If you pay attention to such things you probably could have.
Has actual casualties: But the reality is that a shockingly high number of American moms are dying for preventable reasons. The U.S. Maternal Mortality Ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is shockingly high, well above the average for the developed world,...
There are several indications that an article is not going to be worth your time unless you're a blogger looking for something really dumb to make fun of. The first.
This article about how Obama is such a "bully" that he's willing to criticize political opponents is pretty much all comedy gold, but I especially treasure the bit about how.