Best wishes to Brian Beutler for a speedy recovery.
John F. Kennedy, statement on the death of Ernest Hemingway, 2 July 1961:Few Americans have had a greater impact on the emotions and attitudes of the American people than Ernest.
Jeffrey Rosen continues to claim that liberals "dodged a bullet" when Roberts and Alito were appointed. I continue to find this as unpersuasive as it was a year ago. Some.
Pathetic. (See also.) Wealthy people with excellent financial prospects and little debt get favorable treatement from banks? Fetch me the smelling salts!
To add to a point made by a couple of commenters, there's nothing remotely new about Democrats giving money to religious groups for secular purposes.
Wow, it's almost as if projecting performance among various demographic groups in a general election based on results from a primary election is completely illogical! The next thing you know,.
On the question bean raised below, I pretty much agree with the Great Sky-Blue Satan. As long as 1)religious organizations adhere to civil rights, civil service, and other government regulations when performing secular functions, 2)the money is for a truly secular and important public purpose, 3)religious...
Obama wants to expand the role of faith-based organizations in American public life.Maybe there is a lot of good to be said about this -- particularly in poor, religious communities.
I'll probably have more to say about this post later, but one thing I would say is that I don't see why you would need a constitutional amendment to change.
Obama opposes a rollback of same-sex marriage rights in California; McCain supports it.
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Obama's "patriotism problem" is that he isn't a complacent reactionary like me. Exactly the kind of logic that led to the National Review's "patriotic" defense of apartheid..
In addition to his politically convenient mind reading, there's also the fact that Novak is just making stuff up. Obama, of course, said (unwisely) that people were clinging to guns,.