Ann Friedman makes the critical point regarding the McCain campaign's announcement that Bristol Palin "made the decision on her own to keep the baby":I mean, John McCain and Sarah Palin don't believe women have a right to choose. It's absolutely absurd for the campaign to emphasize...
Monika Bauerlein is, of course, correct that it would be grossly sexist to bring up Palin's youngest child or his disability with any implication that this makes her running for.
Back in the spring of 2001, the grad students at the University of Washington went on strike to gain recognition of union affiliation. Watkins, Lemieux and I walked the line.
Glenn Greenwald is doing yeoman's work regarding the use of state terror to quash the possibility of dissent at the RNC. Now admittedly to this point it's what might be called "soft terror:" no one is actually being shot, for instance. Instead, people are having their...
Just in case there hasn't been too much coverage of Sarah Palin here, I thought I'd let everyone know that the word on Alaskan Street is that representatives from the.
Try to make it sound plausible...The owner of an internet site critical of the Russian authorities in the volatile region of Ingushetia has been shot dead in police custody. Magomed.
Ari and Eric have have dug up some fun details about Sarah Palin's first few months as mayor of Wasilla. Elected to bestow "change" upon the town, Palin instead went on a rampage, demanding -- a la Jimmy Carter -- that her stable of city managers...
I'm currently reading Nixonland, Rick Perlstein's brilliant cultural history of the United States through the lens of the rise and fall and rise again of Richard Nixon (I don't know.
Heading out to Great American this afternoon to watch the 60-76 Reds play for pride against the 59-76 Giants. Woo. Hoo. Some links for your pleasure:Loomis recalls Earl Butz, a.
If we don't stop the revaunchist Washington Husky football team in Eugene tonight, the result will be eighty-five times worse than Munich.
Caveat emptor, President Kokoity.The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will.
I appreciate Jerome Armstrong's schtick (everything is good for the Republicans, bad for the Dems) but seriously, the idea that Palin is a "gamechanger" in a good way for McCain.