Still aren't good. As though all the conditions faced by Democrats heading into November 2014 aren't cause for enough pessimism, including an electorate composition that favors Republicans given reduced turnout in mid-term elections, the marginal gains for Republicans derived from gerrymandering, and the penalty the...
Dave Brockington
The headline charitably assumes that there is any calculation involved here at all. Just yesterday I read a column or post somewhere (I thought it was Krugman, but I could.
Over at Monkey Cage, Andrew Gelman has an excellent piece on how post-publication peer-review works (and doesn't) in the blogosphere. One of the central themes (to me) is how complacency.
I'm surprised I missed this one. The story -- a Montana high school teacher, now 54, pleads guilty this past Monday to raping a 14 year old student at his high school in 2008. The prosecution seeks a 20-year prison sentence. Montana District Judge Todd Baugh,...
Unless you're our Republican asshole of the week, Rep. Scott Desjarlais (TN-4). If it merely seemed like Desjarlais is a nasty piece of work for, you know, sleeping with patients and.
In an article that I'd have thought I wrote if the byline hadn't told me otherwise, Allen Clifton at Forward Progressives is suitably amused by the legal strategy of the.
On Monday, a 41 year-old man, who admitted guilt on "two counts of making extreme pornographic images and one count of sexual activity with a child", was sentenced Monday regarding the latter crime of sexually abusing a 13 year-old girl in London's Snaresbrook Crown Court. There...
The Ashes As it's my role here to spearhead LGM's cornering the "progressive blogosphere market on cricket commentary" (as per our FAQ), my absence is letting the team down. I.
Two articles on North Carolina came to my attention this morning. First, it appears that NC is convulsing with the same sort of protests that ground Wisconsin to a halt.
The story has been floating around the past few days, but it's been confirmed with the release of a report yesterday from the US Census (specifically the Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement). African Americans voted at a higher rate than the (non-Latino) white...
is finally retiring. Ferguson has been rumored to be retiring for over a decade now, and I can still recall the sure bet that it was about ten years ago.
This is relevant to very few people outside of the 1st Congressional District in the state of South Carolina. The district has a PVI of R+11 (I'm surprised that it's.