In the wake of the pathetic demise of his pet AmericansUnityElect0812 project, Matt Miller responds to what he calls the False Equivalency police: The reason I’ve wanted an independent candidacy has nothing to do with faulting Democrats and Republicans equally. It has to do with changing...
Teach the controversy! What would constitute a valid Democratic party analogy for the willingness of prominent GOP politicians (the Secretary of State of Arizona is a fairly high up elective.
The D.C. Circuit has upheld the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act, in a case likely to be taken by the Supreme Court (but hopefully not now.) On the.
The stupidity of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, example 23,000,000.
Propublica's timeline on Obama and civil liberties is very useful. A few notes: More than once, I've seen claims that "one can argue" that Obama has been even worse than.
If this is the stuff that the heirs of Breitbart's hack empire want to frontload, I'm going to be especially entertained by the B material. Meanwhile, not to be outdone.
On Joe Ricketts: The New York Times won the morning on Thursday with an A1 story on a new anti-Obama super-PAC, Character Matters, that's planning on spending $10 million on an ad campaign linking President Obama—a "metrosexual, black Abraham Lincoln"—to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Character Matters...
Donna Summer, R.I.P.
Given the times we live in, it's worth recognizing those who believed that gay rights was the next phase of the rights struggle when many did not. Such as Huey.
Kaustuv Basu discusses an effort at Stanford to reduce the time it takes students to receive a Ph.D. in German Studies to 4 years. Spearheaded by former MLA President Russell Berman, a member of the department, the initiative seeks to shorten the time it takes for...
I have a follow-up to Jamelle's piece talking about the various other ways Romney will be horrible. In particular, we'd be looking at a Supreme Court where Antonin Scalia would.
Per Intrade, which is probably the most reliable measure of that question at this point. And of course if Romney is elected president there's a good chance both houses of.