I think Paul Krugman tried to warn us about this. Yikes. The dollar could slide still further, in spite of hitting an all-time low against the euro last week in the wake of George W. Bush's re-election, currency traders have said. The dollar sell-off has resumed...
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Several colleagues have expressed skepticism at my post-election claim that were Bush to appoint a Justice from within to fill the CJ vacancy that will almost certainly be left before.
Matt Yglesias asks a good question: My friends in the choice movement keep assuring me that the pro-choice position is overwhelmingly popular, and that it's overwhelmingly important that the Senate Democrats.
From Kos, we learn that the trend here in Washington of the Democrats picking up seats in the state houses is happening around the country. It's happy news, to be sure, but I can't say I have any brilliant ideas as to why this is occurring....
The Poor Man is--for good reason--one of my favorite blogs, so I was hoping that this post was just a Swiftian joke, but apparently it's not. Lindsay Beyerstein does a good job.
Many have pointed to this Paul Freedman article at Slate, which makes the case that anti-gay initiatives may not have had the electoral impact many of us assumed. He's got some.
Matthew Yglesias is right to suggest that the modern Christian Right, despite some intimations to the contrary, does have some notion of social justice, and it's not all bad. Certainly the following rhetorical questions Who's working to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa? Who's trying...
Kevin Drum has a great post mocking the silly contention that the Democrats are doomed because they can't win in the south, while one never hears that the Republicans are doomed.
Jesse Taylor, as you probably know, is under conservative fire for his indisputably correct observation that mobilizing homophobia was a decisive factor in the presidential elections because of the way the electoral.
The more I think about it, the more I think this is my movie of the year so far (although I still haven't seen Vera Drake), and I'm not sure if I don't agree with Rob that it may be the best movie I've seen about...
This map is making the rounds. I can certainly see the appeal. More seriously, but in a similar spirit, I've seen a few people not in comment threads elsewhere, as well.
In his press conference today, Bush came out in favor of the line item veto. Leaving aside the fact that giving him further tools to veto pork when he doesn't.