Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for everyone's favorite game--"Which Republican Governor is the Biggest Asshat?" I'm your host, Erik Loomis, and today, we are going to tour the nation visiting our favorite Republican asshat governors. Vote early and often! Behind Door A, we have one...
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Jamelle Bouie: Gerson says that the terms of the debate this fall will be between “Reform Conservatism” and “Obama’s surprisingly unreconstructed liberalism.” Now is not the place to define Obama’s.
Michael Bloomberg, sensible American and our only hope to return from the brink of something: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vetoed a City Council bill that would have raised the minimum.
Here we see example #520 of villagers gnashing their teeth and rending their garments when Democratic voters elect real Democrats over the kind of Republican-lite Democrats political elites think they should vote for. Where is the bipartianship? Won't somebody think about the children? Of course,...
That word, I do not think... The Cameron government is a very, very special. To get well to Herbert Hoover's right after seeing the consequences of austerity the first time.
I kept meaning to blog about the Pineda/Montero trade, but I couldn't decide what I thought about it. Normally, I would trade a good 23-year-old pitcher for a grade A.
Or, at a minimum, the provision requiring state law enforcement officials to determine immigration status, which may be upheld unanimously: Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared inclined to uphold a controversial part of Arizona’s aggressive 2010 immigration law, based on their questions on Wednesday at...
And you thought I was going to write about Leno.... Sarah Goodyear has a nice piece at the Atlantic about the invention of jaywalking. Essentially, cars were seen as murderous.
I was very happy to see President Obama use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Fort Ord National Monument in California, protecting some of the last wild land in.
Pierce: Too much of the book is simply a culture-war text gussied up in a chasuble. Douthat is extremely bothered by people who claim to seek enlightenment from a "God Within," and outside the framework of preferred ecclesiastical constructs. (In this, he risibly cites Deepak...
This is more Scott's beat than mine, but evidently Chuck Klosterman -- the nitwit who couldn't spend 30 minutes or so actually listening to a tUnE-yArDs album ("wow, their lyrics.
Won't someone please think of the children?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! These days, you can’t get a sugar high without experiencing a cultural low. Hello, I’m Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in.