The Mittens plan on health care: repeal the PPACA, make it much harder to obtain private insurance without providing public insurance, gutting Medicaid, ending Medicare. And how could I forget TORT REFORM, the solution to all life’s problems. Well, those contradictions won’t heighten themselves!
Month: May 2012
Kevin Williamson. See also Serwer, Bernstein, and Kilgore. Does this National Review article about how conservatives are the real supporters of civil rights even mention the National Review’s co
Purportedly, these gigantic purple onesies for University of Washington athletes were designed by a UW student. But I am privy to inside knowledge suggesting these were clearly designed by a student o
I’m glad the highly principled Lanny Davis has come to the defense of helpless Cory Booker and against Democrats’ mean attacks on both the mayor of Newark and Mittens’ experience at Bain Capital. It turns out Harold Ford also agrees. So Booker is in the finest company one can imagine!
This is a few weeks old now, but David Greenberg’s assessment of the continued attempt to canonize Dwight Eisenhower is quite good. The histories we write say as much about our own times as abou
Josh Eidelson has a provocative piece at In These Times exploring the possibility of killing the National Labor Relations Act. Quoting several union leaders who note that the labor law enacted in 1935
My take on the lawsuits challenging the contraception requirement is up. The short version is that 1)in a rational universe the idea that religious affiliated institutions performing secular functions with taxpayer money have a constitutional or statutory right to impose their religious views on employees who don’t share them would be considered somewhere between “implausible” […]
The proliferating conservative meme that criticizing legal arguments you disagree with is some kind of unethical intimidation is probably too stupid to require an elaborate rebuttal, although Mark Tus
So if the Pakistani doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden gets 33 years in prison for treason, does this mean the Pakistani government has explicitly tied itself and its national in
As MacGillis says, Obama certainly could lose in November, but weak performances in meaningless primaries in states he has no chance of winning aren’t evidence of anything.
The 1930s: a decade where you could have mainstream cartoons about children going hungry that would resonate with people’s experiences. Good times.
Another day, another post on the 1884 presidential election. I found this county map of 1884 election results pretty interesting because it shows southern “redemption” in progress. Whites