Ezra presents an optimistic perspective about whether McCain's "dishonor before death" campaign will damage his reputation, at least if he loses. I'm not as sure.In the long-term, I'm inclined to agree that (especially if Obama's presidency is generally regarded as successful) McCain's disgraceful campaign will be...
Adam Liptak has a useful roundup, noting that the Court does not have any "blockbusters" comparable to last year's Second Amendment, death penalty, and war powers decisions. There are, however,.
Bill Kristol continues to push Sarah Palin, and hints at his own responsibility for the pick. It's columns like this that make me wonder whether there'll be a reckoning in.
This is interesting; I got the impression on Thursday night that Palin had intentionally mispronounced nuclear, presumably as some sort of anti-elitist message to the base. Before the first time she said the word, she seemed to pause, as if for effect. Did anyone else get...
With his beloved Rangers having opened their season in Prague, this seems like as good a time as any to note that world's most dangerous professor Michael Berube has returned.
To no non-wingnut's surprise, Yoosta-Bee has-been David Zucker's latest film Michael Moore is teh Fat Heh Indeed! has been a commercial and critical fiasco. So if you're the kind of.
From the political candidate who -- for nearly six weeks now -- hasn't had a public thought that wasn't handed to her on an index card, there's this:“The pundits today on TV—one of them was saying, check out the vice president’s schedule, check out where she’s...
I don't have much invested in the outcome of the NL playoffs, though I suppose if pressed I'd have to root for the Phillies. And while the Phils appear to.
Oh, this takes some of the sting out of the drubbing that USC applied to my beloved Ducks:It wasn't a collapse. "Collapse" is too nice of a word. A collapse.
Since Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers is supposed to be the subject of the greatest media whitewash since the Clintons killed Vince Foster, I suppose it's only fair to ask why John McCain has received multiple tongue baths from a Watergate co-conspirator and Nazi fetishist.How...
Just in case you had some strange compulsion to read the thing, Benen identifies the important part of the Times' lengthy attempt to indulge winger guilt-by-distant-association games with Obama and.
I'm stunned that the voters of Michigan are open-minded enough to give their votes to the man who, just nine months ago, conspired to have them brutally disenfranchised.