Listening to people who don't listen to themselves is always fascinating. "And you know, the bottom line. The bottom line is this," LePage said of Trump. "Is he a slimeball? I'd be the first one to say, not a guy ideally I'd want my daughter...
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Considering that the ritual repetition of lies is what made the GOP what it is today, I approve of Gov. Pence's stratatatergery: Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence encouraged activists.
My personal all-time favorite tweet. Glenn Beck endorsing Clinton, AoSHQ endorsing Paul Ryan's Dem opponent -- weird times people. I predict @ErikLoomis endorses Ketchup soon.— Gabriel Rosenberg (@gnrosenberg) October 11,.
I don't know anything about the ins and outs of the 1964 election beyond the fact that Goldwater lost in an enormous landslide, and that the Johnson campaign ran the infamous Daisy ad (one time only IIRC) to drive home Goldwater's purported taste for nuclear...
Above: Kelly Ayotte, International Woman of Integritude, and Erstwhile Supporter-But-Not-Endorser of Donald Trump As Rebecca Traister says, Trump's misogyny is the logical endpoint of longstanding policy goals: Republicans are not.
My discussion of Henry Wallace from the other day received a surprising amount of attention around the intertubes. Andy Seal has a response at the U.S. Intellectual History blog, which.
There are likely consequences of the Trump/Bush tape. And then there's the opposite. That said, it’d be a shame if the tape were used merely to delegitimate Trump. After all, Trump really has nothing to answer for here; we’ve known all along that he...
I have a new piece up at Democracy Journal about the National Labor Relations Board in the partisan era. Roosevelt’s advisers intended for the NLRB to be a non-partisan agency;.
Yesterday the fam and I visited the Sonoran Desert Museum. There my son learned about different kinds of desert animal tracks...and droppings. I took a few pictures of him picking out desert poo. It reminds me of the Republican primary, because here you see a...
Is somebody going to pull the plug on this thing? The email was amazing—it linked Boogie Man Blumenthal, Podesta and the topic of conservative political fevered dreams, Benghazi. This, it.
Finally got to 95%: It would be nice to see the Dem Senate number get north of 70% too...