I remain convinced. See also Drum.Let me also add: Sebelius '08! On the question of Joe Biden, I could see a case -- if he hadn't been in favor of the war. As it stands, I think it would be crazy to pick someone almost...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Patterico objects to an LA Times editorial asserting that McCain will appoint justices who share his views that Roe v. Wade is wrong and should be overturned. Patterico argues that.
Matt asks, in re: a ridiculous LA Times editorial claiming that McCain and Obama are pretty much the same if you just ignore their massive policy differences on virtually every.
Mark Penn washes his hands having helped to seal Clinton's fate. (Penn's column is also available in video form.)The thing is that there's actually considerable merit to Penn's argument that money and organizational issues were the key defects of the Clinton campaign; their inability and/or...
I have been criticized in comments for not properly acknowledging the Red Wings' Stanley Cup victory, so consider it acknowledged. As Kaufman says, the series didn't quite become a classic.
Publius has a more optimistic take on last week's civil rights enforcement decisions, in which (unusually in a major case) Alito and Roberts broke with Thomas and Scalia and (with.
Via Ezra, Michael Pollan has a good example of the problems that Matt discusses here. Evidently, it would be good if subsidies to wealthy agricultural conglomerates could just be eliminated (or severely curtailed.) But the structure of American institutions and policy path dependencies make simply...
It may not be literally true that Larry Johnson is the biggest clown in the internets, but close enough. Or at least I believed that until he was vindicated by.
I'm not surprised to see this. The fact that it was Robert Johnson and Lanny Davis making the public pitch made it pretty clear that Clinton was not interested in.
I'm not one for Kennedy nostalgia, but it was certainly a moment of immense historical importance. I don't think that -- even had RFK won the nomination and beaten Nixon -- that he could have prevented the ultimate pro-GOP realignment that culminated in 1994, but...
Shorter Tom Maguire: All institutionalized racism ended immediately after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, because these changes to formal law both ended racism and erased the ongoing impacts.
It's hard to get much worse than getting swept at home by an Angels team without Guerrero (and not pitching Lackey). But I'm sure McLaren and company can find a.