Roger Ailes recently pointed out an embarrassingly stupid op-ed piece by Wan Julliams, in which he complained about how the vacuous lip service with no changes in policy whatsoever offered by George Bush hasn't won him more votes. Anyway, he moved things up another notch...
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Brad DeLong has a nice post comparing Ehrenreich in 2000 and 2004. I'm always amused to be reminded some classic Naderite tropes, such as the fact that a conservative justice.
One Steven Zeitchick takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to write what might be the stupidest defense of Fox News ever: Yet to call these films propaganda is also.
The NLRB decided today, in a 3-2, straight party-line vote, to claim that since graduate students are students, they are therefore not employees, even if they perform labor services in exchange for money. I somehow suspect that the university would not accept this logic if I...
This interview, which will be much blogged about--although I can't see anyone topping Jesse Taylor, so I won't try. But, really, it's worth the free ad. Perhaps better, though, is.
In the cloture vote today, only 3 Dems crossed: Zig-zag Zell and Nelson, definitive "nominal Democrats," and Robert Byrd. With Byrd, I'm not sure if it's some obscure constitutional principle or.
In the process of tepidly defending the indefensible, Rich Lowry gets something (mostly) right: Andrew Sullivan has been playing increasingly tendentious word games with the labels he applies to supporters and opponents of the FMA. Yesterday's version was particularly amusing. He said that the FMA may widen...
The Poor Man provides a handy advance summary of my forthcoming oral defense.
William F. Buckley Jr. in the New York Times Magazine: NYT:It's not fair to blame the press. Some of your most inflammatory comments have been made in your essays and columns. In.
To be the millionth blogger to post about the DeLong/Ehrenreich dispute, I agree with David that DeLong's criticism was in general overwrought. While I do think that some elements of the Nader faction of the left see politics primarily as a vehicle of narcisstic self-expression,...
Former GOP Grand Wiz...er, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is very concerned about John Edwards. Well, of the 100 people in the Senate Lott is certainly one of them, so let's hear.
In responses to Dave's query, the incomparable Bob Somerby on Brent Bozell's "magic elipse." By the way, I'm sure you're all excited to know that LBBIII has "written" a "book." I dunno, Brent,.