I agree with some of Sawicky's critique of Krugman's Rolling Stone defense of the Obama administration. The point about the kiss up/kick down nature of the criminal prosecutions, in particular, is unanswerable. I don't agree with the Cornel West argument that he pretended to be...
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A distinguished, if long-dead, philosopher has dropped into our comment section to make a very important point: Because multi-party systems are much more democratically responsive? Coalition building is at least.
Embedded in a gag about the Obama presidential library that is, how shall I put this, not funny, Thomas Frank has some penetrating questions: Why, the visitors to his library.
I suspect my position that Oregon v. Smith was correctly decided and RFRA was a mistake will have a lot more takers than it did two years ago. Lest people think I've become a Green Lanternite, I should say that the headline notwithstanding I don't...
The Congressional Science Committee is at present basically the legislative arm of the Chevron octopus: For Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the country with $26.2 billion in annual profits,.
The Thick of It > Veep > House of Cards (UK) > House of Cards (US) >>>>> The West Wing >[infinity] The Newsroom. You're welcome! ...a few explanatory notes: This.
A very important point: A few minutes after he signed the Civil Rights Acton July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Hubert Humphrey, who had led the fight for its passage in the Senate, with a copy of his signing speech. On it, the...
Ron Fournier has discovered that everyone now agrees with him: For months, the White House and its allies mocked critics of Barack Obama's leadership, arguing that no president has "Green.
On my twitter feed, someone alerted me to professional Green Laternite vastleft defending the idea that the ACA was, in fact, the same as the Heritage plan, because all political.
Brad DeLong has some fun with Niall Ferguson's latest round of dishonest arguments in favor of austerity. As a bonus, in the original op-ed Ferguson feels the need to run off a lot of clock before getting to these howlers about the non-existent "debt crisis."...
Today in classics of unintentional deadpan humor, Mr. Robert Costa: Leadership sources tell me the House GOP will soon vote on a continuing resolution that simultaneously funds the federal government.
Chait notes the circular nature of green lantern arguments as media accounts rush to blame the eminently predictable failure of Congress to pass gun control legislation on the White House:.