I meant to comment on this a couple of days ago, before I went away on a brief vacation, but I didn't have time. So even though the news is a few days old now, I really want to commend President Obama for changing how...
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This really isn't surprising, which isn't to say that some of the specific arguments aren't disappointing. Two points: 1)you don't have to be very dovish to think that the Iraq.
The contrarian truth is that under Plotz Slate has become an excellent magazine; the occasional Jonah Weiner atrocity notwithstanding, the overall quality of writing is very high. Several regulars are.
Of course, it takes Pat Caddell to take arguments an argument that Unity '12! Americans Elect represents a real grassroots third party movement to new heights of farce: Meanwhile the tea party movement is functioning as a quasi-third party already, having already demonstrated an unprecedented...
I'm looking for striking recent examples of upper class whining about how it's hard out there for people living on not that much more than 200K a year, and who.
In isolation, I agree with Matt and Kevin that the failure to give a lot of coverage to Ron Paul is perfectly defensible. Not only is he clearly a fringe.
Student loan debt in the US is approaching one trillion dollars (up from$180 billion a decade ago). Most of this debt is government-guaranteed and non-dischargeable -- a combination which has very predictable effects for debtors and tax payers (they get shafted), and equally predictable effects...
I think this comment from David Mizner -- whose excellent novel you should check out -- gets to the heart of the issue: This argument — could President Obama have.
Jeffery Hirsch savages Joe Nocera's worthless column from yesterday, where Nocera says that Democrats cost the nation jobs because the NLRB is forcing Boeing to stop retaliating against its unions.
In an utterly unsurprising move, the AFL-CIO has started its own Super PAC. It intends to compete with the big corporate Super PACs, trying to use its considerable lobbying power to push for workers' rights. I only mention this because of my ambivalence about AFL-CIO...
R.I.P.
I find myself in an unusual position of arguing that someone is underestimating presidential power. Armando asserts that I argue that we shouldn't care who is president. So, working backward.