There was no question that an ostensibly liberal pundit was going to come out with loads of praise for the boldness of Paul Ryan's appallingly regressive, transparently fraudulent attack on the Great Society. Whoever had Jacob Weisberg in the pool, collect your winnings! The core...
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I'll have to call this for the former about 30 seconds into the first round.
LGM is proud to announce the 2009 nominees for First Annual Mikey Kaus Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence in Contrarianism:Jonah Weiner: Creed may be the greatest.
If Ben Wittes is indeed serving as an adviser to the Obama transition team, let's hope the President-elect has the good sense not to listen to anything he has to say. That Wittes would invoke Qahtani in support of his proposal for expanded detention authority...
Erik Loomis makes a stalwart defense of Seattle's Alaska Way Viaduct, recently named the Worst Freeway in America:The road sucks in a lot of ways. A big earthquake would remind.
Who else but Stuart Taylor? His argument seems to be that the best remedy for illegal acts of torture is to assure that (apart from some isolated low-level "bad apple".
I guess it's time to go back to this from Ben Wittes:I know what you're thinking: If they confirm Mukasey without answers, the Democrats will once again be caving and letting the administration escape accountability. But the Democrats actually don't have to cave here. They...