Obviously, Krugman versus Paul Ryan isn’t a fair fight, but this is nonetheless quite satisfying.
Month: August 2010
Kagan confirmed. I hope she will prove to be a successful appointment.
My favorite nugget in this particular chart is the inspiring tale of the veritable K Street Horatio Alger, Thomas Scully.
Rand Paul lacks both accreditation and a bachelor’s degree? Rand Paul, the Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Kentucky, holds a medical degree from Duke University but never received a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, contrary to several media reports in recent months. Baylor officials confirmed this week that Paul was a student there from the […]
Like I say, every country has its neocons: In his first interview since his capture after the fall of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein’s former top deputy Tariq Aziz tells the Guardian that it would be w
This is almost surreal. The company that’s trying to put forward a Ukranian Antonov aircraft as the new USAF tanker is protesting a decision to reject its bid on account of tardiness. Here’
Yglesias: Which is simply to say that legal details aside (I’m not a lawyer, but you can play one on TV by reading the decision) this seems like a clear victory for moral justice and nobody has any reason to have mixed feelings about it. To elaborate a bit on my previous post, I agree […]
I have an article up at Right Web on conservatives and civilian control of the military: The reaction of right-wing elites to the cashiering of McChrystal represents a genuine improvement over the his
Shorter Gerard Bradley: “It’s outrageous that Thugood Marshall didn’t recuse himself from school desegregation cases, and that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor did
Asked: So, how are the crazy-cons going to react to the court decision striking down Proposition 8 in California? I ask because we’ve been hearing that the new right-wing crazies don’t care about “values” issues the way the old right-wing crazies did; we’ve been hearing that the new crowd is even kinda-sorta gay-friendly. [Ha-ha, what […]
Meet the radical far-left judicial activist who issued the Prop 8 ruling: In other words, this “liberal San Francisco judge” was recommended by Ed Meese, appointed by Ronald Reagan, and opposed by
Shorter Verbatim Assrocket: “Conservatives have long said that the day would come when liberal judges declare the Constitution unconstitutional.” Or, to put it in a way with some relation