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 week. I would like to add one important point. All comparisons taking the form "x...
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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.
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. While I can't help but think they've been laying on the Vietnam service a bit...
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.
Conservatives like to complain that the media insists on covering on the bad news in Iraq (like car bombs blowing up dozens of people) while ignoring the good news (a.
Paperwight makes a good point in the discussion of Dave's Ann Coulter post. It makes perfect sense for Coulter to recycle stale anecdotes from Reagan-era Michael Medved columns, because this will still seem fresh to a constituency still seething with resentment over the Reconstruction Amendments. One often hears from reactionaries that...
One of the most amusing pathologies of wingnut cranks is their unyielding conviction that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in 2004, despite the facts that 1)she repeatedly said.
Probably not, unfortunately. Ann Coulter has been given a seat at the table in national media circles for some time now, in person and in print. From where I sit,.
Rob's absolutely right, Bill Clinton is a brilliant speaker, in terms of rhetoric, content and delivery. The best thing about the speech was the brilliant conceit of taking the actions and policies of the Bush administration seriously as if they were the product of some sort...
Bill Clinton is the finest political communicator anyone alive has ever seen. He makes Reagan look like a stammering idiot. Even the Fox News crew was in awe. If you.
"D-Fence!" "D-Fence!" "Extended warranty? I can't lose!" "Ayn Rand's philosophical genius is eclipsed only by Ann Coulter!" This last category, which Moe Sislak ("that's right--he's a surgeon!") didn't reach, is.