I have a new post at TAPPED up about the ludicrous fake outrage surrounding the outing of Larry Craig. See also Mona, Glenn, and Pam. Shakes defends outing in limited circumstances....I see that Patterico endorses the Captain's nonsensical point that outing Craig is a "personal...
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For those of you weren't aware of what this new ad is copying, note the original Jesse Helms ad above. Except that the new one seems to be for people.
From the Times' second most e-mailed story of the past several days (behind something on the arcane and mildly distressing subject of "preschool puberty"):Representative Jo Ann Davis, a Virginia Republican.
Diane Nash, as Erik Loomis explains.Sadly, the centrality of women to the civil rights movement has only become faintly visible to most Americans with the deaths of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King in the past year. Even now, however, popular historical memory has little...
Fascinating.In "Steel Drivin’ Man," Scott Reynolds Nelson argues that the John Henry story was no tall tale, and Henry himself no myth. Historians have long speculated that the John Henry.
Very nice post from Ezra Klein:More pernicious, I'm starting to think, is anti-paranoid punditry in American politics, in which scary-but-plausible theories are dismissed simply by calling them conspiratorial. Because we.
Because my television has been broken for two months now, I'm not suprised I missed this from Condoleezza Rice, appearing a few weeks back on 60 Minutes:"You have conceded that lots of mistakes have been made in Iraq. Vice President Cheney says if he had...
An interesting article by Warren Richey about whether the Supremes will "trim" the appalling Military Commissions Act. My guess, as Richey suggests, is that the Court will do pretty much.
Via Matt Weiner, it looks like the fine folks of Kansas are about to tell Phil "He's What's the Matter With Kansas" Kline that his "services" shall no longer be.
Why in the name of all that is holy did Slate hire Anne Applebaum to write a column called Foreigners: Opinions about events beyond our borders? Is she in some way that I'm not aware of qualified for such a column? Her previous entry at...
I think there's a lot of truth to what Matt says here. All I would add is that in the House, where the Democrats have the best shot, the structural.
Bob Owens scrawls his latest post in poo.