Wittes, responding to Adam Serwer: In other words, Adam’s fear that “the president can have someone executed on his say-so based on mere suspicion of a crime” does not describe the claimed power properly. The better description would read: “The president has the power to target...
Some lazy blogging on a Tuesday evening... IDF intergrating its submarine crews? Foreign militaries advising the US on the changes necessitated by expected DADT repeal. Biddle on politics and war..
Is it possible to come up with a dumber "Obama would be leading the Democrats to a victory in the midterms if only he had sucked up even more to.
OK, maybe he was right to praise himself -- for the first time we have evidence that Richard Cohen is a very funny man. The segue from "practically, some suburban Jerusalem settlements won't be dismantled'" to "therefore, Israel should be able to build more illegal settlements...
Shorter Ed Gillespie: "I must oppose transparency, because it violates the rights that individuals and especially corporations have under the First Amendment to have nobody disagree with them." Jeez, Ed,.
The standard caveat applies: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. I repeat: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. The wheel will not be reinvented here. I begin the.
Shorter Clive Crook: People would be perfectly happy with Obama, despite the dismal economy, if he were more like David Broder. Certainly, he cannot continue to be such a populist firebrand, always pandering to hippies. Oh, and he should definitely support extremely unpopular upper-class tax cuts;...
Son of a Nobel Laureate Adam Bellow continues to masterfully undermine the thesis of his own book.
Meet New York Republican nominee Carl Paladino, who has some other things besides racist emails on his cv: She was talking about her husband's affair, a subject she was ready,.
School boards have gotten the green light from the Supreme Court to re-segregate, and so why not just abandon any pretense of caring and go back to the same "neighborhood school" polices that maintained segregated schools in the immediate wake of Brown?
Despite seeing the write-up, I have a hard time believing this actually happened. I do like the fact that Coulter has illustrated another twist to the general Republican belief that.
If we had a hipper press corps, someone would just go ahead and ask Christine O'Donnell how all those fucking magnets work.