To echo what Krugman says here, I recently had to get a new Social Security card. This led to an absolutely harrowing experience where I filled in a form online, went to the local federal building, waited for about 90 seconds, handed the form to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Glenn Reynolds wants you to know that when it comes to secession, bothsidesdoit: Since the election, we've seen more interest in secession. Hundreds of thousands Americans in all 50 states.
To follow up a bit on Dr. Black, I agree entirely with Alex's substantive take on Cuomo. I don't agree, though, that the Evan Bayh of New York politics will.
Warren Rudman, R.I.P. Hopefully the New York State museum will be putting together a display on the moderate New England Republican -- it can go right next to the Wooly Mammoth.
I've been meaning to write about the phony narrative that John McCain et al. have tried to turn into a pseudo-scandal to trash Susan Rice. I would hope that everyone.
Item 1 -- Mr. Glenn Harlan Reynolds: That's no secret in the Obama era, of course, as the press's efforts to boost, and then protect, the presidency of Barack Obama.
After a couple commenters brought it up, I was looking forward to reading Bill Simmons's Gary Bettman rant. The problem is that his bottom line is completely wrong. In a lockout so obviously unjustifiable that it's a rare case where both fans and (based on...
Tomasky is pretty much correct that the initial Republican reaction to the defeat will be to couch the same unpopular, pro-plutocratic policies in language that sounds as if they care.
If we end up with the offense to human decency that a Notre Dame/Alabama title game would represent, I will hold Rob and Erik personally responsible. I mean, is getting.
There's a comment in the thread responding to my article about the Petraeus "scandal" and the privacy of electronic communications that perfectly captures the mentality that continues to whittle away at the Fourth Amendment: No, [there] shouldn’t [be an expectation of privacy for government employees]....
Jon Chait has some fun with Nick Gillespie, who asserts that the problem with the Romney campaign is that it didn't take a more libertarian approach (perhaps campaigning on the.
Motivated in part by how blithely some commenters in this thread seemed to accept the various pretexts used to eliminate any expectation of privacy from private electronic communications ("Of course.