It's been amusing to watch some of the reaction to the Convention over the last week, especially to Barack Obama. Jesse Taylor at Pandagon has the latest attempt to claim Obama for the Republicans. . . It's not that I don't believe there are genuine compassionate conservatives....
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme Court.
Michael Berube offers some voluntary editing services to a Cal Thomas column perhaps more egregiously stupid than the one by some tall blond guy that USA Today killed earlier this.
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme Court used them to strike down maximum hours laws in 1905, and for his criticism of John...
I didn't watch all or even most of it, just catching most of the major speeches. From where I sit, this was a success--tight, organized, on message, and the speakers.
Well, I think this is going pretty well. He's still not a great orator, but he can be good, and I'd say he's close to the top of his game..
Erik asks in the comments if Rehnquist's nature was known when Nixon appointed him. As it happens, John Dean wrote a good book on the subject. Essentially, Rehnquist was a last-minute choice; Nixonites knew about many of the skeletons in his closet, but Senate Democrats didn't have...
Conservatives like to complain that the media insists on covering on the bad news in Iraq (like car bombs blowing up dozens of people) while ignoring the good news (a.
Paperwight makes a good point in the discussion of Dave's Ann Coulter post. It makes perfect sense for Coulter to recycle stale anecdotes from Reagan-era Michael Medved columns, because this will still seem fresh to a.
One of the most amusing pathologies of wingnut cranks is their unyielding conviction that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in 2004, despite the facts that 1)she repeatedly said she wouldn't run, and 2)no constituency within the party who wanted her to run. Then, she...
About Obama, I have little to add to the blogger consensus; at least as it sounded on the radio, it was great. Ever the glutton for punishment, after Reagan's speech I watched.
Island of Balta believes ""In 20 years, we will look back and say that the single greatest failure of this Administration was the fact that it allowed Iran time to.