May 09, 2006
'Cats and Dogs, Living Together' - 10:48 AMMass Hysteria! Via Drudge (who gets it from the Financial Times) Rupert Murdoch is going to be hosting a political fundraiser for... Hillary Clinton. Every time I read that, I boggle like it's the first time. From the Financial Times:...
April 30, 2006
'Stephen Colbert Rocks the House' - 06:33 PMWooow. Stephen Colbert, standing not three feet from the President and First Lady, set off a few tactical nukes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend. Here's the full transcript, half of the video (UPDATE: full video here, and...
April 13, 2006
'Fast Tracking' - 10:19 AMVia Kevin Drum, Max Boot has a modest proposal for the immigration conflagration: Lost in the uproar has been an idea so meritorious that it should win universal assent: Create a fast track toward citizenship for those willing to serve...
April 07, 2006
'An Insurgent Campaign?' - 02:19 PMHey, it's worked before. In the Washington Monthly, Amy Sullivan does her best to blow up the conventional view of Democrats as headless chickens: When reporters do write about Democratic victories, they often omit the protagonists from the story completely,...
April 06, 2006
'Cartoon Violence' - 11:58 PMThis is quickly going to teach me not to bring my laptop to campus events. I attended another discussion panel event today, one that I actually helped organize. The topic was the "Mohammed cartoons" published in the Jyllands-Posten in Denmark,...
March 20, 2006
'The Circle of Mistrust' - 07:16 AMBruce Bartlett talks to Andrew Sullivan: I have never understood why so many people — both inside and outside the administration — continue to give Bush so much loyalty. I can only conclude that it is borne more from fear...
February 28, 2006
'The Sublime Ports' - 09:53 PMFolks, I'm having a major shipment of schadenfreude delivered as we speak. Fortunately, it's NOT FROM ISRAEL! The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports...
February 27, 2006
'The Call is Coming From Inside the House!' - 03:02 PMToday Josh Marshall first reminds us what reasonable people used to be able to think: Under every administration there are examples of individuals or tax exempt groups (associated with the opposing party) getting audited by the IRS. It always, or...
November 04, 2005
'Opposite Day' - 08:17 AMOkay, am I the only one surprised by this: The Post alone fronts the Senate passing $35 billion in domestic cuts over the next five years; the bill also says the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge can be opened for drilling....
October 14, 2005
'Impending Doom' - 01:57 PM(Note: I am not back.) As the days march on, I'm getting closer and closer to being proved horribly wrong. But for some reason, I have a hard time getting too choked up about it: Focus of CIA Leak Probe...
August 31, 2005
'Racism: Alive and Kicking' - 09:22 AMAnd giving myself the lie not two posts later, here's something from Atrios that I just couldn't not pass along (he got it from Daily Kos). No more comment, just go read....
August 26, 2005
'The Last Five Years in a Nutshell' - 06:57 AMBush: George W. Bush, the US president, has said no decisions have been made on troop levels in 2006. “I think they were rumours. I think they're speculation,” he said at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, this month after meeting...
August 25, 2005
'First They Came For the Gays' - 11:48 PMMake no mistake, the radical right-wing is after your rights, not just those of homos and brown-skinned foreigners. Don't believe for a second they won't turn on you. Hey, it's happened before....
August 24, 2005
'Hold Everything!' - 10:29 PMApparently, I was wrong about Pat Robertson. I believed the liberal media's lies and distortions (and video) about what he said. He apologizes for the whole misunderstanding and set's the record straight today: "I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our...
'Jesus Would Cap His Mother*ing Ass!' - 06:55 AM
Liberals, and specifically New York liberals, have often been asked whether we learned anything from 9/11. I'll tell you what I learned on 9/11: Religious extremists are the the mortal enemies of a free society. All religious extremists. The war...
August 08, 2005
'Wild Speculation' - 06:57 AMI have a hunch that all this talk about John Roberts' records from his days with Bush I isn't going to lead anywhere. For one, I think this Administration just likes playing this little game of keep-away with the press....
July 26, 2005
'Labor Splits' - 07:18 AMI don't know a whole lot about the recent labor difficulties, but this seems promising: The last labor split, 70 years ago, led to a frenetic era of competitive organizing. When the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of...
July 11, 2005
'Liberals and Labor' - 06:45 PMI've been trying (here and there) to keep up with the new House of Labor blog started over at TPMCafe. I have a hunch that posts like this are really on to something: I've been writing a blog for over...
July 01, 2005
'Grab a Helmet' - 04:15 PMIt's about to get ugly. This was originally an update to the post below, but I figured it was important enough to warrant its own spot on the main page. Sandra Day O'Connor has resigned her post as Supreme Court...
June 14, 2005
'Math is Hardnosed' - 12:35 PMPejman Yousefzadeh writes on RedState.org: The New York Times has a truly bizarre editorial on The Deal involving judicial filibusters. One bizarre portion is the following: Last month, 14 senators injected some sanity into the situation by signing on to...
June 09, 2005
'A Little Letdown' - 10:42 PMWell, the Senate confirmed William Pryor today. That's the third of the three nominees the filibuster deal allowed to the Senate floor for a full vote. It was always understood that, with the Republican majority in the Senate, any Bush...