Ann Althouse has disturbing news -- President Obama believes in the nearly unlimited censorship of artistic works put out by corporations! Lawyers even saw fit at that time to argue that movies shouldn't get free-speech protection at all because "their production, distribution, and exhibition is...
Month: September 2012
Brad Plumer with some real talk about the tax burden, highly useful in light of the latest ruminations of the Gekko/Roark Without Architectural Ability campaign.
[Part I] We pick up our interview with Andy Polsky, whose terrific and timely new book about the American presidency at war, Elusive Victories, is available at fine online booksellers.
In our first installment, we learned that conservatives will just ignore any issue that shines a positive light on Obama. In today's installment, we learn that conservatives will also ignore any issue that shines a light white-hot-like-the-surface-of-the-sun on Romney: Hot Air can be commended...
I have a piece in Salon on Rick Santorum's observation this weekend that "the smart people" aren't going to vote for the GOP.
Someone asked if I'd published the final post in my wrap-up of the mid-season finale and I mentioned that I had—on Saturday evening when 90 percent of our readers aren't.
It stars Mitt Romney! He sure loves all Americans: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are...
Huh: If you're counting the days until your next McDonald's McRib fix, there is some bad news: fans of the cult favorite will need to wait until late December this.
What really fascinates me about the voter fraud myth is how fervently the zealots believe this shit. None of their phantom busloads of fraudulent voters transported in from out of.
Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very much about unions. In a democratic union, the kind of union supposedly liberal commentators say...
Somewhat to my surprise this morning, I discovered that Conservapedia actually has an entry on the Pequot War. For you non-colonialists out there, the Pequot War was a war of.
In his response to my point that people arguing that the CTU wants to make it impossible to fire bad teachers need some evidence that the CTU wants to make.