Pronunciation: /ˈdɛməʊkræt/ 1. An adj. that isn't one used by conservative members of the Republic Party to sound deliberately and defiantly ignorant because that's something to be proud of. Not at all related to these adj. rare examples: 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I....
Month: March 2013
Jesus Christ, what a pathetic operation Tucker Carlson is operating.
Jeb Bush flip-flopping on immigration, now saying he doesn't support a path toward citizenship for undocumented Americans, is a sign that leading Republicans can be serious about winning the 2016.
What if I asked you if a once inexplicably prominent liberal blogger was also on the receiving end of the same blood money as Josh Trevino, who would you guess? If you've been around this thing of ours for a while, your guess was probably...
Shorter A. Scott Berg: As Woodrow Wilson shows, all Obama needs to do is sit down with Republicans and tell them to cut the bullshit. The fact that Wilson failed.
Calling Jeff Sessions a "wonk McCarthyite" is indeed far too charitable; the former term implies that he knows something about anything. I believe this event calls for a link to.
A terrific article by Haley Sweetland Edwards about how the passage of progressive legislation is always the beginning, rather than the end, of policy struggles. Particularly when it comes to the federal judiciary, this is something that too many Democrats have been slow to grasp....
On March 4, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiff in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, deciding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applied.
On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Nate Jones of Unredacted about document classification: It's a pretty interesting diavlog; we also chatted about Able Archer, Zero Dark.
I am apparently now a CNN-worthy expert on the World Baseball Classic.
Got to give it to the Soviets, they did not mess around in showing the consequences of unsafe workplaces. Of course, like American employers blaming workers for accidents, I have.
Greg Mitchell reviews Tom Friedman's column from 10 years ago yesterday in which the Mustache of Wisdom said, "Watching this Iraq story unfold, all I can say is this: If.