The Homer Simpson school of logic finds another Republican adherent, in this case an apologist for racist vigilante killings of people who aren't even guilty of anything. Apropos to my related point, I submit these metaphorical 2x4 blows on behalf of the exoneration of said...
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I think Yglesias correctly identifies the very most annoying part of zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan's budget. It's not just that he portrays his destroy-the-safety-net-to-fund-upper-class-tax-cuts-and-runaway-defense-spending budget as a measure to preserve.
Doesn't this just make you feel bad for poor Bill Kristol? Looking back at the day's news, I must admit I'm having trouble maintaining my customary good cheer. Watching Mitt.
Say it, Justice Ginsburg. Much more on this travesty imminently. The short version is that Supreme Court has joined the War on Women by combining a "federalist" doctrine that is embarrassing nonsense even by Rehnquist/Roberts Court standards with a denial of Congress's explicit powers to...
Having heard that a certain blogger seems to think that Stanley Fish is a representative figure of the American left [to be clear, it's G*oldst*ein, not Maha, who's making this.
Submitted without further comment. ...for those who have already had their fill of mangos for the day, the cartoon in question portrays various Democratic women as literal bitches being held.
Rick Perlstein suggests not in an excellent essay placing today's wingnuts in context. A choice passage: Over fifteen years of studying the American right professionally — especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s — I have...
I have to suggest a modification to Ed Kilgore's point here. Breitbart isn't exactly the right's equivalent to Alinsky on the left, since both figures are cited pretty much exclusively.
You were thinking that the real problem with Sandra Fluke is that she's a prostitute who won't show us her sex tapes in exchange for allowing her to use birth.
I was going to write a post about the right's odd obsession with Saul Alinsky, a man who has only been tangentially important to the American left since about 1982. I've been to my share of lefty meetings in my life and I can't think...
One of the reasons Slate has improved greatly over the years is that it not longer publishes the inadvertently self-paradoic ramblings of Steven Landsburg. (I particularly enjoyed his argument that.
Puzzled about this new language spoken by Republicans, which involves English words used in a way that produces sentences that make no sense? I'm here to help! In collaboration with.