Jack Balkin has an interesting post about the possibility of 2008 being a watershed election, and I agree with several of his points. Certainly, there was always an obvious contradiction between the Rove/Bush strategy to create a dominant Republican coalition and their base-mobilizing, 50%+1 government strategy,...
So as many folks are probably aware, Kristol launched his Times gig by misattributing a Michael Medved quotation to "the conservative writer Michelle Malkin" -- a phrase that makes, in.
So, Michael Dobbs at the Washington Post, in his capacity as debate fact-checker, made the argument that Barack Obama's claim that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty "fell apart" during the Bush.
It's a somewhat delicious coincidence that the "Iron my Shirt" scandal has broken on the very same day as the Times published Gloria Steinem's op-ed column calling on women to vote for Clinton because she is a woman.That said, I've got to agree with Melinda Henneberger...
Mike Huckabee advocates a return to Dred Scott-era citizenship rules for American-born children of illegal aliens. What's even more pathetic is that he wants to join in crank litigation to.
It's been buried by NH primary news, but it's worth noting that the Supreme Court heard Baze v. Rees yesterday. The case challenges Kentucky's use of a three-drug cocktail to.
Kerry Howley gets it right in responding to John Edwards affecting Manliness in response to Clinton briefly crying:Add to this useful list of the worst jobs in the world: consultant to any candidate with breasts. Show emotion and you’re weak; show strength and you’re a collection...
Heading into tonight's New Hampshire primary with McCain and Obama as the frontrunners, I have to wonder....does anyone else find it funny that McCain keeps calling for change, yet his.
Dana is right, of course, that there was a considerable amount of sexism inherent in characterizations of Clinton's debate performance on Saturday. ("Medusa look," ugh.) This presents Democratic primary voters.
There's a good piece by Tim Golden in today's Times about the detention center at Bagram, where conditions are even more bleak than at Guantanamo; conditions are overcrowded (the population having increased from around 100 to nearly 700 since 2002), detainees have no access to lawyers,...
One does indeed hope that should Clinton go on to lose the primary it would have the salutary effect of permanently discrediting Mark Penn. (Although, alas, always losing competitive campaigns.
The general absurdity and delusion aside (how could anyone ever have expected something different from a cog so deeply enmeshed in the GOP/think tank machine; moreover, should Kristol be celebrating.