The dodging and weaving in this thread is classic. As I've said in comments, someone needs to come up for a concise term to describe “coming up with imaginary moral slights so you can avoid addressing the fact that someone’s charges against you were correct.”...
Author: Scott Lemieux
You may scoff, but the state of Wisconsin has saved more than $7 million. The strategy involved was "stop making things up."
Yglesias, on ROTC being permitted back at Harvard now that the military complies with the unviersty's nondiscrimination policies: I’m eagerly awaiting “guess I was wrong” posts from all the conservatives.
Indefensible. I think it's worth noting as well that this isn't the case where there's a clash between civil liberties and compelling political interests -- the number of votes Obama would lose if Manning was treated in a humane, constitutional manner is "none." They just...
Today's installment of "if Aaron Sorkin had made this a plot line in a West Wing script, I would have written a post making fun of him for his didacticism:".
Anna Holmes's article absolutely should be read in its entirety, but the intro really does provide a good window into much of what passes for journamalism in cable news today:.
Shorter Mike Huckabee: There's no surer route to political glory than recycling Dan Quayle routines from the early 90's.
It's not as if we didn't know this. But I guess some people need reminding -- if you're speaking to Newt Gingrich and take anything he says about running for.
Well, this is better, if utterly incoherent. One important takeaway: the fact that bigot faction is already ginning up a referendum should be yet another lesson that opposition to judicial.
Sam Arora is apparently the latest politician who studied how the historical reputation of Orval Faubus evolved and decided he'd like to be remembered similarly.
In comments, DivGuy argues that I'm being too hard on poor Willard. Responding to my point about how Clinton's foolish Iraq War vote probably cost her the nomination: However, if.
Idiotic faux-populist anti-environmental posturing benefits former Koch exec. A real winger double-header! Of course, despoiling the environment is now a moral necessity, so...