With Ezra Klein moving to the American Prospect, his weekend crew -- featuring many excellent bloggers and friends of LGM -- have started a blog of their own. Very much worth checking out/bookmarking.
Mike Huckabee favored quarantining people with AIDS...in 1992. But he doesn't favor tax cuts even if they would involve ignoring court orders, so clearly he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist!
Sully makes a good point:Notice also that this isn't the ticking time bomb case that Charles [Krauthammer] has previously invoked to defend torture. There was no imminent threat to hundreds.
There's a lot of sturm und drang about the state of abortion laws in this country -- and rightly so. Several states are trying an end run around Roe by constitutionally enshrining fetal life from the moment of conception; the Supreme Court doesn't think women are...
So Alfonso Cuaron's Great Expectations was on HBO not long ago, and since I'd never seen it I decided I'd give it a try. It looked terrible and got awful.
If you're Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the fact that Franklin Foer still has a job pretty much has you breathing into a paper bag several times an hour. But when he's not.
Henry applies the "you hump it, you own it" principle to yet another of my daughter's toys.
Mr. Kenny Williams:Reacting Wednesday to the blockbuster deal that sent power-hitting third baseman Miguel Cabrera and former All-Star left-hander Dontrelle Willis from the Florida Marlins to the Detroit Tigers —.
I'm not sure -- objectively! -- that Yglesias or Cole fully understand the extent to which -- objectively! -- Mitt Romney's speech was without question the greatest in the history.
The CIA deliberately destroyed tapes of two of its "severe interrogations." The First Rule of the Bush administration: it can always get worse. Marty Lederman correctly calls out Jay Rockefeller, who at the very least has been sitting on this information since 2006, for yet again...
I haven't always agreed with Murray Chass's analysis of labor issues, but he's been doing great stuff about the exclusion of Marvin Miller from the Hall of Fame, this time.
Mitt: We should acknowledge the Creator as did the Founders in ceremony and word. He should remain on our currency, in our pledge, in the teaching of our history, and.