Author: Scott Lemieux
To be clear: Fred Hiatt will never stop trying to kill it, and Democrats shouldn't be scared of facing the issue.
Ezra is, of course, completely right about the filibuster. While there may be individual exceptions in the long sweep of history, legislative gridlock is far more beneficial to reactionary than.
Lindsay Beyerstein argues that, contrary to the most obvious inference, that reproductive freedom advocates weren't asleep at the switch when the House adopted the Stupak amendment, and that it's likely.
Mr. Brian Cowen is the Prime Minister of IrelandI might be able to forgive saying something dumb in the immediate aftermath of an important game in which an official blew.
A great catch by Cole, who notes that a new CNN special should remind us that one of the chief witnesses in the extremely thin and frequently illogical witchhunt against.
I assume that the fact that the latest ad hoc conservative arguments that following the rule of law is a luxury the United States just can't afford are illogical isn't.
Somerby notes the unfortunate parallels: Undying love of conventional wisdom: Many sports pundits have seemed genuinely angry about the fact that Belichick did something unconventional. (Trent Dilfer, come on down!.
It's hard to even know where to begin with what is -- despite some hemming and hawing about "both sides" being at fault that always seems to end up with.