Speaking of Halperin, my very favorite part of Boehlert's Lapdogs is the extended takedown of The Note, which is excerpted here. It was a time, while the presiding administration was lying its way into a disastrous war, in which trivial non-scandals involving people vaguely...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Ye Gods, has Samuelson been running the con of conflating the two key New Deal/Great Society programs for the purpose of undermining both for a long time.
The Orioles do take substantial additional cash payments to find the most creative ways to give away every one of the 95 or so games they play against the Yankees.
It's that time of year again... (more…)
The National Review employed more overt racists than just John Derbyshire. I haven't been this surprised since Jon Huntsman failed to capture the Republican nomination. In fairness, it's hard to.
I have a piece up at the Prospect responding to Orin Kerr's assessment of the various ways on which a decision striking down the ACA could be viewed as "judicial.
Well, what has been true de facto since Rick Perry remarkably proved himself too dumb for Republican debates is now pretty much de jure. Although it certainly says something about how bad Mittens is that even people who were not really running campaigns could create...
Lori Montgomery. Montgomery's "report" is a classic of the shape-of-the-earth-views-differ genre. A worthless "study" by a Republican touted as if it was comparable to an official CBO report? Check! No.
Chris Christie, brave truth-teller: The report by the Government Accountability Office, to be released this week, found that while Mr. Christie said that state transportation officials had revised cost estimates.
This report on what specific acts of fraud led to Lenny Dykrsta's arrest is a good read. It's kind of amazing that it took this long. As was already clear in this story from 2009, Dykstra wasn't exactly a subtle con artist, using such techniques...
Oddly enough, Americans Elect's drive to take the politics out of politics isn't working. I think the problems started when they inexplicably declined to reacquire the domain name for Hot.
Shorter Jeff Goldstein: "if the Republican Party were not dominated by politically correct censors, all conservatives could straightforwardly argue that white supremacy is simply the truth, like the regrettably martyred.