Author: Scott Lemieux
Sophia Lear notes that Reebok's new campaign for their new "Easy Tone" shoes (if you haven't seen them, I don't know how to describe them -- platform runners?) includes a.
Tracy Lightcap has a good comment in the thread below:I'm not so sure that there are good and bad presidents, just good and bad opportunities.I'm a big fan of Skowronek's.
Both Adam Liptak and Lyle Denniston see, after Tuesday's oral arguments, a strong cross-ideological consensus (excluding John Paul Stevens) that the "honest services" statute often used to prosecute corruption cases.
It used to be that Gail Collins would feign reluctance about having been forced by events to author her 75th consecutive column about some trivial political sex scandal or another..
I've been reading Daniel Walker Howe's superb What Hath God Wrought. Among its many strong points, it's much-more clear-eyed about Andrew Jackson than Sean Wilentz's similar history, and I've been.
QOTD:Matt Yglesias says it's puzzling that Ben Bernanke isn't adopting a more expansionary monetary policy in order to jumpstart the job market. Brad DeLong says, "I am puzzled too." A.
Shorter President Max Baucus: public options are for my mistresses, not for people without decent health insurance. Seems like a good time to return to the archives for this classic..
What's amazing isn't so much that he couldn't get even two dozen people to attend screenings at America's most populous urban centers, but that even 17 people would pay 20.