I think that to the extent that Bachmann's assertions that the Massachusetts health care bill is unconstitutional were a gaffe, it was a Kinsleyean gaffe. That is, I think at bottom the arguments against the constitutionality reflect libertarian principles much more than federalist ones. When...
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I strongly recommend John Sides's post, and for that matter I also strongly recommend On Deaf Ears and the Strategic Presidency, the most essential readings about the presidency this side.
A lawyer's story.
Applause lines: The uninsured should be left to die. Said uninsured parents should have daughters who die unnecessarily of cervical cancer. A Fed Chairman who tries to fulfill his mandate by reducing unemployment is guilty of treason. Boo lines: Muslims are not collectively responsible for...
Good piece on the two-tiered wage system at UAW organized auto plants. Like a lot of labor people, I am really torn by this. On the one hand, it has.
"We must kill the Great Society in order to save it." ...give this to Bai: without Jon Huntsman, where would he be getting the botched Nirvana references that are so.
Is the current Congress the worst ever for environmental issues? Almost certainly, though you could probably say the same thing for many issues. Worst Congress ever? There's a lot of competition. But this one is very competitive for the title.
In 100 plate appearances against lefthanders this year, Adam Dunn is slugging .036.
In the next few months outstanding student educational debt in the US will hit one trillion dollars (it's already bigger than outstanding credit card debt). Apparently, until the federal government.
I'm not sure it's possible to be a poor man's Glenn Reynolds -- on its face, it seems as implausible as the existence of a more derivative, less inspired Lenny Kravitz -- and yet I think Stephen Greene has achieved such status: Imagine instead that...
On the monetary side are even worse than ours. In a bit of black comedy, on the other side of the page, Ross Douthat argues that the Obama administration did.
At the risk of being insufficiently devotional today, I will note that this is totally bizarre. Two aluminum shields were fashioned out metal that was salvaged from remnants of the.