In focusing on Clive Crook's ridiculous argument about "states' rights," I must concede that I neglected to mention that the whole column was premised on an even more risible premise -- i.e. that the shutdown was just as bad for Obama as it was for...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The Hindenburg. The Titanic. The Cooch.
Clive Crook, everybody! Or think of states’ rights [sic]. This is a politically divided country, with big divisions running along geographical lines. An arrangement that circumscribes the federal government’s role,.
Mark Judge, America's most ridiculous would-be serious political writer, has a review of the new Jezebel book. It is -- and I hesitate to make a claim of this magnitude -- quite possibly worse than you'd expect. If you're interested in an intelligent take on...
The Tea Partier Maine's electorate elevated to the governor's office in of its more dubious judgments has some things to say that are presumably not intended as factual statements: Maine.
Just as the Roberts Court gave a clinic on how not to properly interpret the civil war amendments, Potter Stewart knew amendments that were designed to actually empower the federal.
I received some understandable pushback for asserting that as far as his political punditry goes the late Christopher Hitchens was "a highbrow Maureen Dowd or Mark Halperin." Thanks to some of Rob's dumpster diving archive restoration, I now think this was unfair...to Dowd. I note...
When an article starts out like this, we can safely say that its chances of making a decent argument are non-existent: If you want to know how unhinged PC has.
Responding to the discussion of experiencing sexual harassment by Hannah Waters and Monica Byrne, Laura Helmuth makes a couple good points: Before this week, the word I often heard people.
Congrats to the Red Sox; having reconstructed last year's debacle into the the best team in the league is just flat-out impressive. When I compare Leyland to Grady Little, I don't of course mean to suggest that yanking Scherzer in the 7th last night was...
I think Ezra and Atrios have this right. To the extent that budget negotiations are viable, there's no reason that tax increases should be the first Democratic priority, even leaving.
Shorter Charles Krauthammer: "Everyone else opposes using a racial slur as a team name for the wrong reasons. Fortunately, I'm here to oppose it for reasons that are completely historically.