When it comes to Sammy the Wurzelbacher, nobody cares. This isn't surprising, since it's not as if he has ever an actual grassroots phenomenon. Rather, starting with the GOP's hapless presidential candidate, he was certain conservatives' idea of what an "authentic heartland phenomenon" should be....
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Shorter Verbatim Dave Schultheiss: "What I’m hoping is that, yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will.
As was widely expected, the Supreme Court today that Pleasant Grove, Utah's unwillingness to display a monument erected by the Summum did not violate the religious group's free speech rights..
Silver:If it sounds like Jindal is targeting his speech to a room full of fourth graders, that's because he is. They might be the next people to actually vote for Republicans again.Of course, what makes it really funny is that Jindal is apparently the GOP's...
The mortgage deduction is indeed bad policy. Alas, it's pretty much an object lesson in path dependence; when you get policies like this wrong it's almost impossible to get rid.
A third-stringer at Andrew Breitbart's new site Stalinist Aesthetics For Dummies starts us off with some boilerplate that reminds us that "politically correct" has become the most useless phrase in.
The New York Yankees.
Readers of this blog will know that I approve of the primary objective of this group of scholars and litigators, which is calling for the kind of judicial term limits.
As someone who observed much of Locke's governorship first-hand, I would say that just as he looks better on paper than in practice as a national candidate, so he wasn't.
I'm not really sure about why there seems to be an endless market for op-eds in which Will Saletan informs us that the answer to political conflict just happens to coincide with Will Saletan's normative positions on all the issues. Although, to be fair, his...
Social Security is, as we all know, a very popular and very successful program. For a variety of reasons, centrist pundits in general and the Washington Post in particular have.
In comments, America's most dangerous professor directs us to this Jacob Weisberg classic, which puts his comments about Hillary's excessively ambitious and calculated iPod and how it spells doom for.