In response to reports that Tim Geithner is trying to scotch Elizabeth Warren's appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (and presumably prefers someone who is sort of willing to overlook the whole "consumer protection" part of the mission), Yglesias and Fernholz point out that...
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I happened to spot this little item at a Soulless Chain Bookstore recently -- apparently disgraced governor George Allen has decided to devote a whole book to making stupid conservative.
Shorter Jay Bybee: "I'm very sorry. I'm sorry that there are some people out there who think that designing specious legal arguments in order to enable executive branch officials to.
This story would seem to confirm the arguments made by Glenn and some other commenters that the authorities in California bear some of the blame for the failure to extradite Polanski. Like some other commenters, I'm inclined to think that the Swiss argument was a...
Katha Pollitt wonders at what point an artist gets his or her "one free child rape" card: Like many people I have fantasies about getting away with a crime, so.
The idea that "Republican elected officials" may not care about deficits and small government but "American conservatives" do is indeed absurd: One piece of pushback I got from some right-of-center.
Digby: Since the Village is essentially a Republican town perhaps they assumed that liberals were all going to be the same dead-enders the Bush cultists were, defending their man until the day he was out of office (and then insisting they never liked him in...
Shorter Karl Rove, more or less:Seven years ago today, Democrats began calling George Bush a warmongering, lying knucklefucker. Unfortunately, I was too busy helping destroy Valerie Plame's career to recommend.
So writes everyone's favorite conservative blogger, seemingly confused as to whether he's a teenager now or in 1955. Not that he's "teenybopper blogging," but when you think that Selena Gomez,.
Tom Friedman: This whole spy story has the feel of one of those senior tennis tournaments — John McEnroe against Jimmy Connors, long after their primes — or maybe a rematch between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in their 60s. You almost want to avert...
Nice to see the Second Circuit rule correctly on the "fleeting expletive" issue the Supreme Court dodged in a sometimes embarrassing opinion by alleged First Amendment absolutist Antonin Scalia.
and, no, this is not about the regrettable Polanski affair. I'm befuddled and bemused by that one. This, on the other hand, makes obvious sense: LGM's favorite ex-Governor of Alaska.