Over at Seriously, We Shelled Out $30 Million For This? Media, BadTasteInCocktailsPundit suggests that a little terrorism may not be such a bad thing, if the right targets are intimidated: The important part is this: If this abominable, unconstitutional [sic], usurperous [sic], injurious, unsustainable [sic]...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I have some further discussion of my contentions (mostly but not entirely in agreement with Paul's piece) that 1)the bill is properly viewed as constitutional, 2)the Court is very, very.
Henry's give 'em enough rope approach to this remarkable McArdle post is a sound one. As an alternative, I'll try isolating a couple particularly instructive sentences: One cannot help but.
You will be shocked to learn that highly implausible claims that executives who simultaneously knew nothing about the actions that destroyed their companies and have irreplacable expertise would flee en masse if not given as much taxpayer money as they saw fit turn out to...
Black and Cole make a point that can't be made often enough: the pro-choice position is a principled moral position, reflecting important moral values. Women's equality and freedom are real.
Col. Mustard poses what he considers a difficult question: What if Barack Obama were not President, and Democrats did not control Congress. Would liberals be so willing to give the.
Some Republican just claimed that the health care bill would be the most "massively pro-abortion bill since Roe v. Wade." I suspect here that the "stupid or lying" question is, as usual, answered by saying that it's a little from column A... I never thought...
A great progressive moment. And what Yglesias said about Pelosi.
It's pretty impressive that John Boehner's first substantive argument (that you won't be able to keep your health insurance under this plan) is a flagrant, baldfaced lie. I'm also interested.
It's unfortunate that they couldn't get the majority without cutting a deal with these clowns, but the difference (while bad) is also minor, so you do what you have to do. ...and, yes, it didn't even involve much of a concession; the primary one seemed...
Glenn Reynolds: "here are some photos from that antiwar rally today in DC. Note the Soviet-nostalgia T-shirt. But guess which one the press will cast as “extremist?”" Glenn Reynolds, quoting.
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent response to claims (from both predictable and normally more astute quarters) that Obama is likely to pay some kind of political price for attacking the.