Yglesias on Abe Foxman giving a pass to the anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-gay, all-purpose nut whose endorsement John McCain assiduously sought out: "What does Foxman have to say about all this Hageean nuttiness? He thinks it's just fine since Hagee's pro-Israel. Obviously, we're not supposed to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Dahlia Lithwick infers them:1. It’s not sexism if it's women trashing women.2. Writing by women about women need not be held to the same critical or analytical standards as writing.
That explains why there's nothing resembling a vote count in the Texas caucuses. I believe that the operative words are "in" and "ept."
Howard Dean says that delegates will not be seated based on the Michigan and Florida straw polls, but would be willing to sanction delegates based on an actual election agreed to by both campaigns. This is obviously the correct decision. We'll see if the state...
You may recall John Pomfret claiming that the embarrassing Charlotte Allen editorial he published was just "tongue-in-cheek." (Exactly what the column was satirizing Pomfret left obscure.) Alas, Allen herself doesn't.
Kevin Drum, citing 1968, says that Democrat's needn't panic. I don't really buy the historical analogy for a reason that can be summed up in two words: George Wallace. Without.
Katha Pollitt on John Pomfret's Misogyny Clearinghouse:Linda Hirshman ["For Hillary's Campaign, It's Been a Class Struggle," Outlook, March 2] explains that women, including me, who support Sen. Barack Obama are "fickle," "elites" who don't care about low-income women, have possibly been seduced by the wealthy...
It looks increasingly likely: Obama, assuming something like his 10-point lead in the Texas caucuses holds up, will win Texas by the metric that actually matters for determining the nomination.
Ohio finally called for Clinton.It also looks increasingly like she'll narrowly win the vote in the Texas primary -- when was the last time that an updated vote count significantly.
My worth-very-little guess is that the most likely outcome is that (with Clinton winning OH and RI, and Obama carrying VT) Obama wins the delegates in Texas and Clinton squeaks out a popular vote victory there. Should that come to pass, I think most of...
Great. I wonder how many children will get seriously ill because John McCain encouraged their parents not to vaccinate them based on crank pseudo-science?
Armando, like several commenters, isolates this passage in the Jeffrey Rosen op-ed I blogged about yesterday and uses it to reject the entire analysis:Mr. Obama . . . is not.