Via Matt W., the fact that the GOP has "progressed from 2000 where they refused to count Democratic votes, to 2008 where they are now refusing to count their own votes" is indeed very amusing. It's bizarre for a party to just announce a winner in...
So, Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, is out. She's being replaced by longtime Clinton advisor Maggie Williams. The Clinton camp insists that this is no nervous nellie shakeup..
Drezner writes...This process meant that the Democrats ran Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry in November. There's no way that any politico can justify a process that.
Yglesias points out the problems with Ambinder's claim that "Obama cannot win the states where the majority of Democrats reside": i.e. it's a more tendentious way of saying that "Clinton won California," which I don't think entitles her to the nomination in itself. But Ambinder goes...
Niklot, born sometime in the late 11th century, was a chieftain of the Obotrites, a confederacy of Slavic pagan tribes living along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The.
Yes, it's over, but it's still pretty remarkable that McCain is going to get swept tonight by Mike Huckabee. On the other side, the Maine caucus tomorrow should be fascinating;.
Saith Ann Althouse [no link, but you know where to find her]:Really, how bad is it to say "pimped out"? Is it "nappy-headed hos" bad? Did anyone think Shuster was literally calling Chelsea a whore or even making any reference to her womanly virtue? "Pimped out"...
Scott and Matt's rather under-analyzed prediction of a Clinton victory pushed me to make a quick and dirty assessment of my own. Here are the states I expect Obama to.
I have mixed feelings on the suspension of David Shuster:To state the obvious, Shuster's comments were sexist, unless you can point me to some example of Shuster discussing Mitt Romney.
Ugh. Remember when installing an Islamist quasi-state in Iraq was defended as a boon to the interests of Iraqi women (oddly enough, usually by people otherwise hostile to women's rights?) That still depresses and infuriates me too. [via Thers.]
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled today that execution by electrocution is unconstitutional because it is cruel and unusual punishment.The court's logic seems pretty sound to me:“We recognize the temptation to.
It's been nothing short of infuriating to watch Alaska's resistance (sub.) to the possible (though unlikely) listing of polar bears as a "threatened" species. The state has exactly zero polar.