Robert Samuelson gives away the show: Obama's behavior resembles a highly indebted family's taking an expensive round-the-world trip because it claims to have found ways to pay for it. It's self-indulgent and reckless. Chait: "Self-indulgent" -- what an interesting phrase. Let's consider both words, starting...
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This weekend Glenn Reynolds noted that a "plausible" explanation for Barack Obama's unwillingness to give the current Israeli government 100% of what it wants (Obama has drawn the line at.
The LGM Bracket Challenge has become a tale of unimaginable horror, but I think I've figured out how it ends: M. Sandiford is in the lead, and wins with 1320.
Arguments that the requirement to buy insurance or pay a tax in the Affordable Care Act are unconstitutional are not very convincing. But apparently we're going to see some that are much, much worse. Here's learned constitutional scholar Saxby Chambliss trying on another ad hoc...
I largely agree. After buying and watching all five seasons of The Wire last year, I struggled with an internal debate: was it better than Homicide Life on the Street?.
More please: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and.
It always intrigues me to be told that by thinking differently from the herd (a hallmark of progressivism) I must actually be a faux progressive. Recently, for challenging my government’s use of racial classifications on the census form, I have been called a selfish, irresponsible,...
But honestly, because he's proven it's possible to be gainfully employed in academia and functionally illiterate, I can't even manage a few moments of schadenfreude. Remember that post I wrote.
1. Poetic justice. Shorter: states that had tight-fisted approaches to health care in general and medicaid in particular are worried about the burden imposed by the health care reform law. Longer: "But even with more federal help, the challenge for states like Alabama, Arkansas and...
So how many babies can we expect to be conceived at Douchestock?
Ken Anderson testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs earlier this week and argued that the Obama Administration must publicly justify its use of drones in.