David Roberts has an excellent piece up at Grist decrying the disconnect between environmental funders and grassroots organizations. There is a criticism of funders on the left that is so old and familiar as to have become cliché. It goes like this: The right’s funders have...
Duss take on Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation on the subject of bombing Iran to Freedom:
The Patterson School Spring Crisis Simulation has drawn to a close. The UK School of Journalism set up two sites to support the sim; check them out. This year's sim.
For better or worse, I got out of the boat on this one, and can assure you that Roy ain't lyin'. Dreher does tell a story in which a mother refuses to have anything to do with her son because he comes out, and he really...
A chilling vision of the future.
On June 21, 1948, Life magazine ran a gleeful series of photos ridiculing Harry Truman's famous don't-call-it-a-campaign-trip campaign trip through the West -- a tour that was widely mocked by.
Andrew Revkin is getting defensive over the backlash against his hack job on Peter Gleick leaking the Heartland documents. Revkin has pulled out the big guns to make us stop--the notoriously ethical Megan McArdle!!! [7:37 p.m. | Updated | I've been remiss in not pointing out...
I'd have to say that my very favorite part of this little slice of comedy gold is the fact that Nolte considers a film based on a Mark Halperin book.
Elizabeth Warren for Senate!: MAYBE YOU saw the pictures. Five middle-age men seated at a congressional hearing table to discuss freedom of religion and contraception. And not a single woman.
I can see the fierce opposition to upper-class tax hikes; it would be pretty rough for an individual to get by on just one Cadillac. In other news, Mittens is a huge, huge liar.
Mittens: dead wrong on the auto bailout, and consequently prone to lying about it.
On this date in 1912, the police force of Lawrence, Massachusetts brutally beat a group of children and their mothers as the children attempted to board a train to stay.