Somebody said something accurate at Judy Miller Media! That is why I almost fell off my chair when I read the very liberal [that should be eventheliberal — ed.] Jacob Weisberg, editor of the Slate group, respond with a thoughtful article titled “Good Plan!” and that states in the heading sub-title that Ryan’s budget proposal […]
Month: April 2011
…has nothing to do with Ryan’s Contract On Non-Plutocratic America. But don’t kid yourself, he’s a bold, honest truth-teller positively dripping with seriousity!
Demand Progress.org, which is doing extremely important work on IT and civil liberties, has just sent me an email requesting me to join progressive Americans in “jamming the White House phone li
Wisconsin — land of union thugs and activist foie gras-consuming judges — has claimed another victim of liberal orthodoxy From the WSJ: Brian Deschane – the 27-year-old son of a prominent lobbyist – was demoted on Tuesday following a public uproar over his appointment to a cushy job earning $81,500 per year working in Gov. […]
My WPR column this week is on American Exceptionalism: Does the United States have a special responsibility to manage international affairs? This question has come to inform much of the debate about t
I just did a quick Nexis search, and discovered that the query “(Paul Ryan) and serious” produced 314 hits in the last 48 hours. Browsing through a couple of dozen of them I discovered tha
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 of the defense is some inherently reactionary question-begging: But they’ve […]
This is no good: Toyota said Monday it is inevitable the company will be forced to shut down all of its North American factories — including its largest, in Georgetown — because of parts shortages
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Tax documents show unwed mother Bristol Palin earned more than $262,000 for her role helping raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention in 2009. The most recent data for
Understanding Society.
I prefer NCAA hoops to the NBA, but I still don’t understand Chait’s argument here at all: I’ve never been clear on exactly what Yglesias is proposing. Is he saying that only athlete
I generally agree with Mark Tushnet that Robert Jackson is overrated. But I also agree that he did have a talent for good lines, and this bit from his famous-if-overrated Steel Seizures concurrence wa