Good question:If Mickey Kaus wants to use Slate -- a professional, well-regarded political "magazine" -- to parrot the National Enquirer's "story" on John Edwards, shouldn't Slate fire him if this story turns out to be wrong? I mean, if a reporter from Kaus's hated NYT...
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I enjoyed this from the National Review's endorsement of Mitt Romney:Uniting the conservative coalition is not enough to win a presidential election, but it is a prerequisite for building on.
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.
With respect to Mike Huckabee agitating for the release of serial rapist and future murderer Wayne DuMond because of pressure from anti-Clinton conspiracy nuts, a commenter chez Yglesias helpfully points us to a reprint of a 1996 Steve Dunleavy column about the horrible injustices perpetrated...
The guy who filed fictions in the guise of reporting from Lebanon is also the author of the seminal The Complete Idiot鈥檚 Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design. Of course he.
I stand in awe:It is fitting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose the U.S. Naval Academy for the venue of today's so-called Mideast peace conference. The reputation of that extraordinary.
Idaho Republicans try to use public policy not only to trap women in marriages they want out of but to encourage them to stay at home where they belong. Which is indeed in character with their refusal to regulate day care because, of course, quality...
Billionaires for Bush mounts a search for the mythical family farmer affected by the estate tax. If you can find one -- and a pony -- you'll get a free.
Bean et al. have taken care of the most obvious atrocities in this post -- suffice it to say that if manliness means beating up your wife after she declines.
Rudy Giuliani has been endorsed by Pat Robertson, which according to smart conservative commentators is a "big plus." A depressing, if unsurprising, thought. Not only is Robertson an arch-reactionary who thought that with respect to 9/11 that the U.S. had it coming (especially ironic for...
I mentioned during the Althouse/Valenti dustup that justly earned the former a Golden Wingnut Award that comments sections were awash in claims that Clinton was a serial sexual harasser, groper,.
I'm glad that Matt alerted his readers to this classic SDB essay, which helpfully divides humans with vaginas into two categories: "women" (i.e. strippers and women who, hypothetically, will sleep.