And, of course, it's even worse than this. If the Obama administration does succeed in cutting the deficit, this will just be a pretext for even more upper-class tax cuts from the next Republican administration. After all, otherwise we might face history's worst crisis, paying...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The states would end up pulling a bait-and-switch on the significant resources necessary to actually make "welfare reform" work.
It's pathetic enough for the Deeply Principled John McStraightTalk to flip-flop on DATA. But it's especially risible that he's using the favorite new Republican form of evasion, "they're ramming it through!" While it pales in importance next to the bungled coverage in the runup to...
While I can't disagree that Ross Douthat seems to have dedicated his career to proving his thesis about the inadequacy of his education correct, this particular example of reducing serious.
Zev Chafets has padded his fawning, puddle-deep New York Times Magazine profile of Rush Limbaugh into a book, with results that are apparently so bad that World's Nicest Reviewer Janet.
Fresh off his...not entirely convincing defense of libertarianism, Matt Welch tabs uberhack Michael Barone's argument "that [government] spending is not popular this year." The obvious problem with this argument is that public opinion surveys continue to indiciate that all federal government spending of any fiscal...
Christ, Givhan is awful. (See also the point made in limerick form.) ...I had forgotten about this one. [via]
Matt makes a good point here about how the founding hero of modern American conservatism was wrong about the most important issue of his time. It's worth noting as well,.
On the narrow point at issue, I agree with Yglesias and Greenwald that the conflation of sexual identity with someone's "sex life" is silly. I'm reminded of my favorite example of this, opponents of gay and lesbian rights attacking John Kerry for mentioning things about...
I'm pretty sure that this passage, part of a defense of major party candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010 Rand Paul's opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964,.
MoDo. Well, granted, she already has a lifetime achievement award, but...