A special day for Republican hypocrisy on food stamps. In the Senate, you have our old friend, Louisiana’s David Vitter: Vitter presented the bill as prohibiting “convicted murderers, rapists, and pedophiles” from food stamp benefits. And in general those are the categories – murder, rape, aggravated sexual assault, domestic violence where sexual assault is involved, […]
Month: May 2013
I love classic capitalist propaganda. Take for example, 1956’s “Destination Earth.” A cartoon produced by the American Petroleum Institute, it shows that oil + competition=getting ri
On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt debates Patrick Christy about the efficacy of an Iran strike:
My Catholic friends, I think it is time to go old-school next Lent. In addition to disease, the European settlers also brought Catholicism with them, and successfully converted a large proportion of the indigenous population. And the native Americans and Canadians loved their beaver meat. So in the 17th century, the Bishop of Quebec approached […]
It’s just a coincidence that Robert Stacy McCain’s infatuated with what he’s calling “The Teenage Lesbian Trial of the Century.” There’s nothing prurient about his
Damn Obama and his diabolical “court-packing” plan of getting one judge confirmed to the D.C. Circuit (out of 4 vacancies) in 5 years! And, of course, even that nominee was very much a com
Modern Farmer with a long look at a major problem with the Greek yogurt industry–endless amounts of very gross whey that is quite toxic to riparian ecosystems. New York produced 150 million gallons of acid whey last year from its Greek yogurt industry. Dealing with that stuff is, to say the least, a big problem. […]
The speech was about as good as to be expected from the president of the United States (as opposed to unequivocally good per se.) He addressed the questions I wanted addressed much more comprehensiv
It’s no secret that the United States has an aging and increasingly dangerous infrastructure. An embarrassment compared to Europe or Japan, Americans have decided that it is far more important t
For the most part, after seeing Kinsley’s latest I’m happy to defer to Drezner, Konczal, and Krugman. But I did want to add a couple points. First, I should note that neither Krugman (nor me, in the linked post) “called [Kinsley] a neocon.” The point was just that Kinsley’s invocation of stagflation is comparable to […]
Roy Hogsed’s 1948 version of “Cocaine Blues” Country Music History 101 teaches everyone that Johnny Cash did not write that song, though he did a good version of it. I will save most
Mr. Obama rejected the notion of an expansive war on terrorism and instead articulated a narrower understanding of the mission for the United States. “Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort n