Like Jon Cohn, I think that Krugman is dead on today. In particular, capping the mortgage deduction — extremely regressive while doing little to advance any useful public goal — at the lowest politically viable level is a no-brainer, although a gradual implementation to prevent major shocks to the market would presumably be necessary.
Month: June 2008
Via CT, here’s a map of the “the 297 most visible and influential [political] websites and blogs.” Of course any cutoff point would be purely arbitrary anyway, but I still wonder who
Seriously. Congress is well on its way to approving four week of paid parental leave for federal employees upon the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a foster child. But guess what? Bush is
R.I.P.
In a general sense, I agree that sometimes people can get a little sloppy about blaming “the Democrats” for the enactment of policies or nomination confirmations opposed by most Democrats
Hmm, this doesn’t seem promising for the chances of disgraced reactionary media magnate Conrad Black’s appeal succeeding: When Andrew Frey, Lord Black’s lawyer, tried to explain how
Andrew Roberts in The Telegraph brushes the dust bunnies off the weak and overused Truman analogy to explain once again why the Bush administration — which has been a perfectly evident disgrace to anyone not toting around a paper bag and several jars of rubber cement — will someday be viewed as a triumph of […]
Pharmacists refusing to stock or dole out birth control or emergency contraception is, sadly, nothing new. But it’s now gone one step further: According to a Kos contributor, a certain small seg
The box of wine showed up on her doorstep earlier than usual today, and Ann Althouse is already coughing up her soul to Maureen Dowd: But, really, the complaints you hear about Michelle Obama are not
Maureen Dowd. (See also.)
Although perhaps owing to anti-French sentiments after 9/11, we’re down 1580 since 1990. We remain just ahead of “Hecht” and “Dong.” djw’s surname is the most commo
The problem with apparently including cut-and-pasted segments from Sean Hannity transcripts to introduce your Supreme Court dissenting opinions is that your demagoguery may turn out to have a certain