I've marveled at the silliness of this silly argument before, but Will Wilkinson does a good job of demolishing it.
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A third-party campaign by Gary Johnson would not have any significant impact on the 2012 election. And the reason is pretty straightforward: as Roy says, "real libertarians are as rare.
I have a piece up at AlterNet about proposed legislation that would create a typically vague national security exception to federal privacy laws. Needless to say, at least in the.
Will Hermes Charlie Pierce Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson visit/react The Guardian Pitchfork I endorse Erik's general position on The Band and Music From Big Pink, extraordinary records that remain rich listening experiences after at least two decades of frequent listening. Stage Fright and Northern...
Jim Webb gives us a familiar story: Webb voted for the law, but also for more than a dozen GOP-offered amendments to it. “If you were going to do something.
That only about a quarter of the public can name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is not surprising. One implication of this, given the speculation that will surround.
Janice Rogers Brown, appointed by George W. Bush to the august D.C. Circuit., argues that the courts should start throwing out economic regulations she doesn't like. Based...well, not on any specific constitutional provision, but because the Constitution generally establishes "cowboy capitalism." It's becoming hard for...
Shorter Tom Friedman: I shall celebrate my Wanker of the Decade title by writing a column about how we need a third party candidate who represents moderate conservative values already.
Hard to argue with this choice. The thing about the definitive "suck on this" moment is how utterly asinine the surrounding analysis is. How, exactly, is terrorism like a stock-market.
I greatly enjoyed Jason Zengerle's interview with Barney Frank, but I'm puzzled that Frank continues to take the Rahm Emanuel line on health care reform: When Obama made the same mistake Clinton made. When you try to extend health care to people who don’t have...
Merits a particularly strong MZS essay.
Virginia Heffernan reads Katie Roiphe so you don't have to: Over a series of bad-faith and gibberish paragraphs, she sets up the reader as a hayseed who is turned on.