Perlstein: Since Rahm Emanuel’s election in the spring of 2011, Chicago’s teachers have been asked to eat shit by a mayor obsessed with displaying to the universe his “toughness” — toughness with the working-class people that make the city tick; toughness with the protesters standing...
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Terry Moran. I'm sure Moran would be thrilled to work for $70K a year for his much less socially useful work... Moran reminds me of the Chicago law professor who.
Naomi Wolf's new book -- by all accounts a disastrous combination of gender essentialism based on generalizing from her own personal preferences, anti-feminism in feminist clothing, evo-psych wankery, and New.
Say what you will, but if not for "progressives" it's hard to imagine that syndicated columnist William F. George could have spent three straight days smoking pot with Jonah Goldberg.
Shorter Verbatim Jerry Meals' Crew Chief Mike Winters: “We looked at a replay. The replay we had, honestly, was not a very good angle and inconclusive. That was just a.
Hopefully everybody stayed safe from the storms.
Mittens has a plan to massively cut upper-class taxes. However, he has a secret mathematically impossible plan to ensure that huge cuts in marginal rates and capital gains taxes won't, in fact, cut upper-class taxes. Scout's honor! Oh, and to reiterate the obvious he'll appoint...
As I waited to the replay on the key call in tonight's Yankees/Orioles game, it was pretty clear how it was going to come out, given that the first base.
As a bookend to Salon inexplicably publishing a ridiculous argument asserting that Mitt Romney is a harmless moderate who if anything is more liberal than Barack Obama, the man who.
Oh, you could spend some time quibbling with the particularly egregious howlers in Matt Stoller's latest bit of Obamney nihilism. For example: And on a policy level, whether you call it Romneycare in Massachusetts, or Obamacare nationally, it’s the same healthcare program. That's right --...
To answer Scott's question, the narrative that would be used to try to counter Clinton was already in place: Even here, Lawrence couldn’t quite make himself say that Clinton had.
The relative inability of the Republican Party to attract women voters sure is mysterious. Related.