As you might expect, Ross Douthat is unhappy about the backlash against the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Much of his argument consists of assertions of media bias that are difficult to respond to, since he cites no examples (let alone systematic evidence.) As...
If Karl Rove hates something, I would indeed inclined to support it if I didn't already.
Politico, or the Onion? The Republican presidential primary might be ready for another twist. Rick Santorum, the winner of the Iowa caucuses who has finished poorly in the four contests.
My wife claims that because I pay so little attention to lips when watching television—the deaf love nothing more than a tolerant spouse and a volume button—I end up pausing faces in the most awkwardly hilariously positions. Over the course of an evening my ring finger...
On February 6, 1919, the Seattle General Strike began. This event, the most successful general strike in American history, was also arguably the most serious working-class threat to industrial capitalism.
His campaign is still working with white supremacists. But, anyway, this stuff (whether past or present) just represents "character defects," like adultery or something. He's great on civil liberties for.
Niall Ferguson. Defending terrible ends using embarrassingly unserious arguments is Ferguson's specialty, so it's hard to isolate any particularly argument as being especially bad. One can start with his inability to decide whether a war would create a massive spike in oil prices or not (whether...
Oh no, won't someone pleeeeeeeeeeese think of the children? Nobody could ever go broke investing in American fainting couch retailers. The FCC is really going to get upset if someone.
Kindly old Ron Paul has some, ah, thoughts about abortion and something called "honest rape" in which reprehensible moral sentiments and utter incoherence struggle valiantly for the upper hand.
I've been wrong about a lot of things, but Eli Manning was at the top of the list. Today, he (and Manningham) made the plays, and Brady (and Welker, although that really wasn't a very good throw) missed two pivotal opportunities, and that was a difference....
I can't leave any suspense about the pick, since I already placed my low stakes wager on the Giants (money line and +3) the Monday after the championship games before.
Via Outside the Beltway, A story about the resurgence of some of the more baroque aspects of Tea Party activism and local politics in the New York Times today. My.