Many smart people understand that tarriffs and subsidies are not good policy. They're corporate subsidies, and while they protect some jobs sometimes, there are much better and more efficient ways for governments* to create and promote jobs that don't harm consumers and workers abroad. I've...
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Via Josh Marshall, the Illinois GOP is apparently considering a drastic option to counter the Obama juggernaut in the Senatorial campaign. That's right, you guessed it: Alan Keyes. Pure electoral gold,.
A double bit of bad news--The Beta Band is breaking up, and their farewell tour will be limited to the UK. I should've got my act together and gone to.
In case you were tempted to take the current terror warning at face value as a serious attempt to warn the public of a potential danger.... -Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the...
This NYT profile of conservative vanity candidate Ralph Nader has some useful information. First, I think we can put to rest the rationalization that, against all evidence, Nader would refrain from.
It would be difficult to imagine a movie from a major filmmaker sounding worse that Spike Lee's latest joint, She Hate Me. The centerpiece of the film apparently involves a.
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme Court used them to strike down maximum hours laws in 1905, and for his criticism of John Kerry's...
Michael Berube offers some voluntary editing services to a Cal Thomas column perhaps more egregiously stupid than the one by some tall blond guy that USA Today killed earlier this.
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme.
I didn't watch all or even most of it, just catching most of the major speeches. From where I sit, this was a success--tight, organized, on message, and the speakers were very good. The response to Kerry's speech around the blogs is interesting. Over-the-top enthusiasm...
Well, I think this is going pretty well. He's still not a great orator, but he can be good, and I'd say he's close to the top of his game..
Erik asks in the comments if Rehnquist's nature was known when Nixon appointed him. As it happens, John Dean wrote a good book on the subject. Essentially, Rehnquist was a last-minute.