Interesting story in the NYT about a woman who appears to have made up an elaborate public 9/11 survival story out of whole cloth. As with Glass, there are giveaways about her verisimilitude that are obvious once you know the story:She has told people that she...
Say this for the 2007 Mets: they have the chance to make history. Should they completely spit out the bit, according to Nate Silver's playoff odds they will have pulled.
Scott wrote this morning about Verizon's decision not to allow NARAL Pro-Choice America to use the Verizon network for pro-rights text messaging. The carrier cited its ability to decline to.
Matt highlights this genuinely bizarre passage in a Times article about the labor dispute at GM:Beyond the bookkeeping effect of VEBAs, the health care funds could create a kind of incentive for Detroit companies and the union to modify their behavior.Paying the high borrowing costs caused...
Publius and JMM draw one of the obvious implications from Verizon's bizarre decision to refuse to carry pro-choice text messages because of their "unsavory" nature. This does make me think.
Presidential sock analyst Ann Althouse complains about Jeffrey Toobin's new book...for being too concerned with gossip and trivia and reading too much into anecdotal evidence, rather than more rigorous, serious.
Any of Marc's "political prognosticators and Iowa Democrats" who'd like to do some gambling on the democratic primary should contact me immediately. Name your own odds!Apparently Biden thinks that his "sophisticated message about the Iraq war" is one his major assets here. If he thinks the...
It's amazing to think that just one month ago the Mets seemed to have one of the best bullpens in the league...
Ben Nelson (DINO-Nebraska) signals that he will, of course, defect to Republican position, allowing Hans von Spakovsky to get to the full Senate. Of course, maybe the full Senate will.
I think that Dan Drezner's effort at refuting Rick Perlstein's Khruschev-Ahmadinejad comparison is quite weak. Dan is correct to point out the dangers of historical analogy, but I find the one Perlstein makes pretty solid. Dan's points:1) The USSR was an acknowledged superpower; Iran is not....
MoDo demonstrates that using fake Reagan nostalgia to critique George W. Bush is just as absurd as using fake Truman nostalgia to scold the Democrats. Here she is, in medias.
The great Dahlia Lithwick explains why Democrats should not vote for Hans von Spakovsky, just as he would prefer that they not vote for anything else:Von Spakovsky currently sits on.