Well, I suppose it’s close enough that we should wait for the recount. This post isn’t legally binding, so I’ll just go ahead. Both Scott and I have issued strict warnings about shooting your mouth off about what a terrible candidate/campaign Kerry was/ran. These orders still stand–he was a pretty good candidate who ran a […]
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At some point last year, Christopher Hitchens took an insurmountable lead in the “idiocy in the name of contrarianism” contest he was having with Gregg Easterbrook. I missed this when it c
While I generally (if tentatively) agree with Ezra and the Moose that overturning Roe would be bad for the Republican Party at the national level (although, for reasons I’ve previously discus
(warning: long boring post. read at your own risk) It’s time we came up with a nice catchy name for the tireless army of people who’ll fight tooth and nail against any suggestion that global warming is a real problem that demands real solutions. Here’s my humble suggestion: Warriors for an endless summer (WFAES). As […]
I’m not sure if Kenneth Baer is one of the people, specifically, that Atrios is talking about, but his article certainly exemplifies the central issue Atrios and Josh Marshall have identified.
Ever wonder what it’s like to run for the Senate as a Democrat in Oklahoma? According to Brad Carson, there’s a downside. For one thing, you get invited to Churches to address the questio
Southern reactionaries have suddenly decided they’re not so keen on the Madisonian institutional rules that have historically served their interests so well. Can’t they make up their minds about what constitutional order they want? According to Dr. Bill “Kitty Kevorkian” Frist, speaking at the Federalist Society: Dr. Frist told the members of the Federalist Society here […]
Uggabugga suggests a new seal for the DOJ.
While conceding that Christopher Hitchens’s latest unintentionally risible strawman-burning is not one of his finest efforts (myself, I can’t tell the difference), Michael Totten defends
I challenge you to try to make sense of the following out-of context quote: “Every Turks & Caicos Islander knows a Canadian” is a common saying in the Islands. Perhaps the problem is that every Canadian does not know a Turks & Caicos Islander. The apologists for Canadian Empire and their Caribbean sympathizers have set […]
In my inexplicable effort to keep at least one conservative blog on my regular reading list (tacitus has been a bit of a disaster lately) I paid a rare visit to Oxblog. In addition to the giddy, subs
You know how Van Halen started with David Lee Roth, and yet somehow replaced him with a succession of lead singers who were exponentially worse? That pretty much sums up our new Attorney General. You&