The Republican Party of 2012, defined: President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. [Pause. Laughter.] MY promise...is to help you and your family. The smarmy-even-for-Romney delivery and the audience...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Given the discussion Erik's post below is likely to stimulate, I thought I'd go back to our archives for an 2004 post about Eastwood as a director, lost in our.
Mitt Romney needed to distance himself from the Republican Senate candidates who have been explicit about the misogyny opponents of legal abortion are supposed to leave latent, babbling nonsense about.
After Zell Miller's speech at the RNC in 2004, Matt said that "I don't believe I've ever heard a more disgusting speech delivered in the English language." After Paul Ryan's speech tonight, I think that judgment must be considered anachronistic. Admittedly, the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver...
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The end of an error. ...lest I scare more commenters, he's still alive.
This is indeed some serious crazy. The plan to combine a regressive federal sales taxes with making a federal income tax unconstitutional is obviously the definitive one, but I also like this one: Affirmative action for Republican officials inside the District of Columbia. “D.C.’s Republicans...
Ross Douthat tries out the routine so beloved by conservative bloggers the world over: The biggest difficulty [with the Judith Jarvis Thomson argument you might remember from high school forensics],.
Republicans are for it. But their version means that people who aren't affluent just won't be able to get health care, so it's rationing by merit!
If being a Republican today means anything, it means...well, supporting massive upper class tax cuts. But in addition to that, it means not understanding the concept of "consent," at least as it pertains to women. A desire to use the law to punish women for...
Well, I would never say the New Deal is entirely safe, but there's a lot of truth in this analysis. Related thesis: James K. Polk bears substantially more responsibility for.
If it was a freelance assignment, I wonder what it would take to get me to go to arguably the most drearily exurban major center in the United States (now.