Oh no, Democrats in Wisconsin are...attacking representative democracy itself! I suppose the "fleebaggers" would like to say that current public opinion polls ought to replace the results of the last election. Is that "what democracy looks like" in your version of American representative democracy? Only a...
Shorter Robert Samuelson: Yep, I'm really going to tie Social Security and Medicare expenses together and pretend that increases in the latter justify cutting the former; why give up your.
I've written a summary of the Patterson School's Spring Crisis Simulation (this year focusing on the Korean Peninsula) over at ID. Check it out.
It appears that former Washington governor Gary Locke will be the new US ambassador to China. This makes so much more sense than Jon Huntsman. See also Thomas Barnett on.
From Sinhababu. ...yet more from Echidne.
SEK is at the Norco DMV in the "appointment only" line after having stood at an unmanned counter with the word "appointment" over it for much longer than he'd like.
Due process 6, Texas-fried Catch-22s 3. The case is yet another reminder that Althouse and Stuart Taylor were right that Alito is no Scalia -- he's much, much worse. ...more.
Shorter Ross Douthat: "I'm optimistic enough to believe that if we deny enough poor women access to crucial medical services, marginally more people will have sex in the manner that I consider appropriate." ...more reactions: Dana Goldstein notes some factual and analytical problems, others bring the...
It's a day old and so probably outdated in some respects, but see this good update from Juan Cole on the civil war in Libya. See also this report that.
If you missed this segment last night, please watch. It is rare to see such in-depth coverage of child poverty: Scott Pelley really puts a human face on this problem.