A useful chart from Plumer. For further context: Romney has said he was unemployed. He's right. He actually does nothing to earn most of his income. He's just in possession of a giant pile of cash. He pays some people to do stuff with that...
Author: Scott Lemieux
"The enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who want them to continue to exist." Anyway, that speech should quiet Bill Kristol down for a while.
This was truly a banner year for terrible movies, with most of the worst directors in Hollywood coming out. Schumacher! Emmerich! Bay! Snyder! Marshall! Several films from Adam Sandler's Straight-to-Video.
Nocera is doing great work: When his coach, Jim Calhoun, broke the news that the N.C.A.A. was still investigating him, Boatright collapsed in Calhoun’s arms. In tears, he called his mother, Tanesha, who began weeping uncontrollably. As I chronicled on Saturday, it was her acceptance of plane tickets...
If this is what he pays in the tax returns designed with public scrutiny in mind, one wonders how low the rate was in previous years.
First you get the beet sugar. Then you get the power Then you get the WOMEN! The GOP is proud of its appalling and extremely unpopular behavior in the Schiavo.
The Supreme Court has unanimously held that GPS tracking of an individual by the state constitutes a "search" in terms of the Fourth Amendment. However, the Court declined to answer the crucial question of with the search was a "reasonable" one under the Fourth Amendment. ...
B- junior high school essay or New York Times column? Alas, the title gives away the answer: Any candidate with that four-part agenda [i.e. who agrees with Tom Friedman about.
Looking at the posts readers had recently clicked on, I stumbled upon this. The Schiavo case is one of the more striking examples of all manner of wingnuts fomenting hysteria.
On Pats/Ravens, I wouldn't make too much of how dominant the Patriots looked in the last round; without first round Broncos MVP Dick LeBeau involved, Tebow turning into a pumpkin was inevitable, and the Broncos defense was overrated. On the other hand, while Flacco is...
I assume Paul will have more. ESPN has a front page article arguing that his "legacy outweighs the scandal." I believe this is the more plausible account: I know that.
For the birthday of Roe v. Wade, allow me to note again that it was a straightforward application (1, 2) of long-entrenched constitutional values, it has already been watered down.