Romney truly is running his campaign like American corporations have run the economy--deliver a failing product but pay the high-ranking officials obscene bonuses: Another set of expenditures is likely to draw grumbles from Mr. Romney’s allies given his campaign’s current struggles: The day after accepting...
Author: Erik Loomis
I've mostly sat out the recent rehashing of the Nader Wars here. Like Rob and Scott, I have grown deeply critical of Ralph Nader and his 2000 presidential campaign. But.
I've read numerous articles this year on the potential unreliability of polling since so many people don't have land lines anymore. And given the demographic realities of the voters, I've.
In 1967, Town and Country Magazine named Mittens one of its top 25 most eligible bachelors. Doesn't look as if that weekends at the White House prediction is looking too good though, unless President Obama is so taken with Mittens that he invites him over...
Lance Mannion for the win, with an assist from James Wolcott's tweet wanting the video of Romney giving the speech from Glengarry Glen Ross. I'm sorry, but Romney does not.
The story behind Jimmy Carter's grandson encouraging the taper of the Romney speech to release it is awesome. Basically, Jimmy Carter IV got sick of Romney saying bad things about.
In a comment to Scott's post yesterday, Matt Yglesias said this about evaluation of the Chicago teachers. My point about unions favoring job security for their members per se is that there’s little reason to give special deference to their views about evaluation. If you...
The scab officials did an utterly abysmal job in last weekend's NFL games. But nothing reached the extreme incompetence of last night's Denver-Atlanta game, and that doesn't even count the.
Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very.
Somewhat to my surprise this morning, I discovered that Conservapedia actually has an entry on the Pequot War. For you non-colonialists out there, the Pequot War was a war of extermination waged by the Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut against the Pequots in 1637. Unlike...
Is Michael Bloomberg starring in a new version of 1984 on Broadway? If so, this would be a good poster for the play. What, you mean this is a serious.
In case you ever wanted to see a Richard Nixon political ad that features a random picture of Jerry Garcia, here you go: