Romney washes that gay right out of his foreign policy team: In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says: I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s...
The bass player in the Flying Burrito Brothers has passed. While everyone thinks of the Burrito Brothers as Gram Parsons' band, Ethridge co-wrote several of their most well-known songs, including.
Also, this: Until Republicans repudiate Bush's politicizing national security, can they please shut up about Obama running on the fact that he killed Osama bin Laden.
These words -- "significant reforms aimed at treating drug addiction as a chronic disease instead of a 'moral' failure," inter alia -- sure sound nice. The problem is that the policy consequences flowing from these words have been nonexistent. As far as drug policy is...
Charles Lane -- fresh from writing an article about our allegedly foolproof death penalty system that never used the words "Cameron Todd Willingham" -- wishes we could stop all the.
Your must-read for May 1 is Jacob Remes' essay on the history of May Day and its meanings for the present. An excerpt: Yet in the United States, with some.
I don't have too much to add to Greg Sargent's take on the "Jimmy Carter would have given the order" Romney claim, but just to summarize: 1. The mission that killed bin Laden was risky in operational terms, in international political terms, and probably in domestic...
Reading the profile of Robert Caro Erik discussed earlier, I was immediately struck by this: Caro can tell you exactly how Moses heedlessly rammed the Cross Bronx Expressway through a.
Jon Chait's dissection of Paul Ryan is essential reading. Before getting to the heart of the article, there's another point I'd like to emphasize. You remember James Stewart -- using.
On April 30, 1894, Coxey's Army, a rag-tag group of unemployed Americans, marched into Washington, D.C., demanding federal jobs for the unemployed. Articulating ideas that would be accepted by New Dealers forty years later, Coxey's Army scared the nation's political and capitalist elites, who feared hordes...
Using control of the agenda to force the opposition into unpopular votes doesn't have much of an impact on elections at the presidential level (although a little more at the.
Great stuff. Except for the part about Cobb entering the stands to beat a man who had lost his fingers in a printing press.