Andrew C. McCarthy, sunk appropriately to the bottom of the wingnut welfare barrel at Pajamas Media, is outraged! Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that dozens of lawyers will be reassigned to the Justice Department’s pardon office in anticipation of a surge of applications from...
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Winner-take-all economics, apparently, applies even to mediocre literary fiction if you can attract Hollywood: Literary power couple Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have put their Park Slope limestone on.
A very useful, if enraging, account. One important takeaway: The Obama administration had hoped to prosecute the 9/11 case in a New York criminal court. But it reversed course in.
Hendrik Hertzberg notes that a 10th state has signed on to the National Popular Vote initiative: On Tuesday, the State of New York took a baby step—or maybe a giant leap!—toward making the United States of America something more closely resembling a modern democracy: Governor...
Apologies for the light blogging recently, as I was in my beloved Seattle for the Western Political Science Association conference. I can report that it was a little harder for.
Fundamentally good news: President Obama on Thursday announced the final numbers for the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period. Eight million people have signed up for private insurance plans through.
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The Amy Schumer sketch I linked to earlier today is, alas, applicable to a much wider array of institutions: As she gave her account to the police, several bruises began.
Evidently, Biden's big mouth isn't always a blessing, but on same-sex marriage it did indeed compel Obama to postmaturely do the right thing, and good for him.
This blog didn't develop tens of ardent fans by ignoring its Sacred Traditions, and hence I cannot ignore my responsibilities. (Remember that you can be more right than me twice by joining the Playoff Hockey Challenge.) Let's get to it: Ducks - Stars. The Stars...
For connoisseurs of North America's finer sports, I have created a Playoff Hockey Challenge group. As always, group name is Lawyers, Guns and Money, password zevon, winner will get a.
This response to Michael Kazin's strange argument about LBJ ("why didn't political leaders use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act to attack LBJ over Vietnam?.