To his credit, Dennis Kucinich will be voting for health care reform. This had led to some grimly predictable concern trolling from conservatives who have discovered their admiration for Kucinich's integrity just in time to repudiate it. The argument, at least to the extent that...
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My general impulse when seeing stuff like this is to wonder why Pajamas TV hasn't yet "Gone Galt." But, in fairness, their retreat to wanker Shangri-La would deprive the.
Random connections between things: Today, I'm at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy giving a guest lecture on global advocacy networks, in a class on Statecraft taught by my.
This NYT article on various "states' rights (sic)" movements is rather...credulous. For example: “Everything we’ve tried to keep the federal government confined to rational limits has been a failure, an utter, unrelenting failure — so why not try something else?” said Thomas E. Woods Jr.,...
Shorter Anglo proto-Dick Cheney: Look, it would be irresponsible NOT to decapitate these Vikings. Via Unleashing Chiang.
Remember how, exactly three weeks ago today, Andrew Breitbart claimed that he would "take down the institutional left within three weeks"? I wonder how that's going. Before I left for.
Shorter Bobo: Having the Senate run like every pretty much every other democratic legislature in the world would be like genocide. Now, when pro-apartheid southern Senators ran everything and everyone went out for drinks in a nice bipartisan fashion, those were the days! ...see...
Kathy Olmsted has a fine list of standout moments in the clinical history of Richard Nixon's presidency. Though we could toss a dart at the White House transcripts or select.
Y'know, the idea that there are meaningful similarities between the rhetoric used to describe the Chinese nuclear program in the 1960s and the Iranian nuclear program of the last decade.
To join Rob in betraying this site's long-standing trend of disagreement with Will Saletan, allow me to endorse pretty much all of this, in particular the idea that at some point there's not much point to be a legislator if you're not going to pass...
You may be wondering where the "Obama is coming for your salt!" idea comes from. (Other than pure derangement, I mean.) Apparently, it's a product of one of the oldest.
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