David Brooks has an argument that the co-winner of yesterday's caucuses is a different type of conservatism. Unlike that upper-class swell Mitt Romney, you see, Santorum offers a frothy agenda directed towards the white working class. He cares about poverty, really! This may seem like...
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Doyle is very good on the Dowdesque classism inherent in the much-discussed Kate Bolick Atlantic cover story.
As the procession of people on book tours and social conservative vanity candidates to match or exceed Romney's popularity shows, the GOP nomination was Rick Perry's to lose. And, boy,.
A candidate who thinks that Griswold v. Connecticut was wrong could win the Iowa Republican primary. Well, maybe I should predict this as if there's significant doubt about the Republican nomination. I'll say Santorum/Paul/Romney [major gap] Perry/Newt. Thaddeus McCotter could still surprise you!
I think a couple commenters have been persuasive that I was too charitable toward Ron Paul, as my closing line implies that he's having a meaningful and positive impact on.
Seriously, can this even be a debate? Gordon Lightfoot's sunglasses, in and of themselves, end the competition. Plus, the title is about political action rather than mush. UPDATE! I also.
Things are breaking especially well for Mittens, but it is indeed just a question of how long the media can pretend there's a race, not whether there is a race. (I also, of course, agree with Ed Kilgore that his inevitability was not inevitable, but...
Since I've seen numerous people make this mistake just in the context of educational choices, for the new year I wanted to emphasize this from Paul's other place: You're wondering.
For some reason, every couple years a media outlet feels compelled to do a lazy puff piece on walking argument against nepotism Adam Bellow. The latest one is definitive because.
Tim Tebow is so great that he can get a team coached by Norv Turner to knock someone out of the playoffs! He Just. Wins. Football Games. To focus against his 20.6 QB rating is to miss the intangible qualities that make him a very,...
Apparently, a twitter storm has broken out about the post I don't want to get into, but Greenwald's latest has a couple things I wanted to respond to on the.
I'm ambivalent about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But you have to admit that it was inspired for Fincher to make the first villain a dead ringer for Mark.