This is something Atrios has been saying for a couple days too, but Krugman and Baker get exactly at the problem with the tax deal. If you just look at the short-term numbers, Ezra is right that it looks like the Republicans got rolled, with the...
In recent weeks, some commenters have instructed me that DADT repeal was a done deal. I never understood this, since Collins's position all along has been consistent: she'll vote for.
Jill's take on the Assange is arrest is definitive. Of course, the priority put on his arrest is almost certainly political. But that doesn't make the charges invalid on their face -- Capone really was guilty of tax evasion -- and certainly have nothing to do...
Many of us cheer for essentially hopeless sports franchises, but it's pretty hard to top being a Royals fan in the "being constantly abused by your front office" sweepstakes. Jeff.
For a variety of reasons, my time has been quite limited the past three months or so. Long story short, the job has been atypically demanding (above average teaching load,.
Words, words, words: South Korea will swiftly and strongly respond with force until North Korea surrenders if the communist state launches another assault, the South's new defence minister said. Kim Kwan-Jin issued the warning on Saturday, during his inauguration speech after President Lee Myung-Bak officially appointed...
This week's Over the Horizon column is about inter-service rivalry: Because different services perform different missions, not all contribute equally to certain grand strategic tasks: The Royal Navy's contribution to.
Thirty years ago tonight John Lennon was murdered by a mentally ill fan. By a simple twist of fate the story was broken by sportscaster Howard Cosell during a ABC.
Nobody possibly could have predicted that getting Susan Collins's "support" for DADT would involve procedural compromises that would allow the explicit repeal opponents in her conference to kill the bill. Certainly, we haven't seen this before.
I confess that it's Week Ten in the UC system, and as such, I'm swamped with the duties that make me a responsible teacher. But as a cancer survivor myself, I.
George Will has introduced the latest effort to claim that, by definition, only liberal judges can be enagaged in judicial activism. This latest gloss on the more accurate "judgifying I.