The 2013 Phil Gramm award for pleasingly inept campaigning goes to...Ms. Liz Cheney: John King and Peter Hamby scoop some news that will devastate every hack who hoped to expense Jackson Hole trips for "political reporting" this year. Liz Cheney, the former Fox News analyst...
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As I've argued at some length, the crucial problem with the argument that the contraception mandate violates RFRA is that holding that the mandate constitutes a "substantial burden" is implausible.
Not a surprise: The Supreme Court on Monday blocked further same-sex marriages in Utah while state officials appeal a decision allowing such unions. The terse order, from the full court,.
In a hot new report, a person who will never again hold elected office was once involved in a scandalous scandal of truly scandalous behavior: Interesting that one of the most vocal and often-quoted supporters of controversial “Duck Dynasty” reality show star Phil Robertson is...
R.I.P. I recently finished Crystal Zevon's oral history of her late husband. The Everlys play a fairly prominent role in the book, as Zevon was their bandleader during the period.
Many of you will have seen Chris Kluwe's account of what happened after he started advocating for same-sex marriage rights: Throughout the months of September, October, and November, Minnesota Vikings.
Blogger Murray Chass wrote two awful blog posts, combining anti-PED hysteria and proud ignorance about the quality of baseball players. Lazy arguments about PEDs, alas, are pretty common. But this kind of silliness is becoming a little less so. Explaining why his next ballot will...
I actually wish Jazayerli hadn't been so prescient. My final comment I will defer to Michael David Smith: Andy Reid is to clock management as Trent Richardson is to running.
COLTS (-1 1/2) over Chiefs A tough one to call -- with Houston coming back but not clearly healthy, it's hard to know how good the Chiefs defense really is. .
It ain't easy defending a column as bad as David Brooks's yesterday. Reihan Salam tries, and his entry is squarely in that odd category of contrarianism, "if we imagine the column being criticized was making a much different argument than it actually was, it would...
I hate to waste more time on this, but Charles makes a point about both Brooks and Marcus that desperately needs to be made: Laws against marijuana certainly have molded.
As promised/threatened yesterday, my longer piece on why it's both wrong and pernicious to argue that the ACA was based on a Republican proposal. A couple additional points: Although I.