To echo Rob, Happy Holidays, and take care of each other!
Author: Scott Lemieux
This largely fawning Times Magazine profile of Robert George nonetheless manages to be quite damning. George's purportedly major intellectual contribution, Fitzpatrick explains, is to apply tautology and bare assertion natural.
I think Nate Silver's decimation of the reconciliation dodge is definitive. Granted, I roughly share his ideological priorities, and as a result I don't think there's a very serious argument.
I'd have to agree that Richard Cohen -- if only for his status as a nominal "liberal" -- merits addition to this list. But I'd remove the merely boring Hoagland instead; while I understand Duncan's point, I'll insist that three years of Kelly is worth...
Treason In Defense Of Slavery Yankee.Although Erick certainly gave it a nice effort....added (by davenoon): And today, TIDOS Yankee withdraws himself from the hindquarters of a pig, dons his John.
One thing to add to the fact that foreign aid is one of the tiny number of specific areas in which cuts to government spending are actually popular is that.
LGM is proud to announce the 2009 nominees for First Annual Mikey Kaus Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence in Contrarianism:Jonah Weiner: Creed may be the greatest American rock band since Limp Bizkit (alas, Nickelback, being Canadian, don't count.) I think you...
Indeed, it's still true. And it's true that even if the votes he casts are much more inevitable than those of Lieberman, Nelson merits a substantial amount of contempt.
Wow. Just, wow. Whatever our disagreements about Taibbi's polemical style, I think we can all agree that if there are any flaws in this classic they result from not going.
Longtime readers will know that I believe that the president's role in passing new domestic initiatives (as opposed to applying existing regulations or putting issues on the agenda) is an essentially subordinate one, and those who think that a ruthless president with partisan control of...
The dilemma facing progressives on health care is simply that the indifference in the face of suffering that the Joe Liebermans of the world have greatly increases their negotiating leverage..
I will concede that at the time the decision was made, we didn't know whether the decision to let Joe Lieberman keep his chairmanship was a good idea or not..