Well, it's hard to imagine Franco Harris being worse than Specter or Sestak. The latter's sole usefulness seems to be that his primary challenge may compel Snarlin' Arlen to be slightly less of a wanker...
Month: May 2009
Joe has the tape; this guy is even more of a buffoon than the last one, and I don't mean that in a good way. While I suspect that complaining.
I am inclined to agree with Christy that Sonia Sotomayor is the most likely Obama nominee, given her compelling personal story and what seems to a moderate liberal record. Stuart.
One of the many interesting things about Obama is that he took such an unusual career path once he left Harvard. I don't know how many other presidents of the Harvard Law Review haven't either clerked, or joined or an elite firm, or become tenure-track...
Digby beat me to it, but it was amusing to Red State touting Jeff Sessions as the ranking minority member on the judiciary committee. Digby got most of the good.
This sounds vaguely biblical...Egyptian authorities have begun slaughtering 300,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu, officials said. BBC reported Saturday that officials said the measure also was aimed at.
That's the practical gist of this Charles Krauthammer column, which begins by invoking the much-mocked "ticking time bomb" scenario, but quickly moves on to this gem:The second exception to the no-torture rule is the extraction of information from a high-value enemy in possession of high-value...
In the three years that readers of LGM have relied upon my Derby prognostication, I don't believe that a single horse I've picked has won, placed, or showed. This, of.
Matt Yglesias points out he doesn't really think that raising sin taxes will reduce health care costs. And he doesn't make that argument in the post in which I attributed.
Shorter Condi Rice: We didn't want to do anything illegal responding to 9/11. Happily, if the President does it, it's not illegal! I also think that Iran is a fair standard for evaluating our country's human rights record.
Mark Penn has uncovered an excuse for blowing huge institutional advantages in the Democratic primary, wondering what would have happened if John Edwards hadn't run. Myself, I think the more.
I have some thoughts up (with a somewhat misleading title) at Comment Is Free.