Still not a war though. Interesting thoughts from former Pentagon analyst on the politics of drone warfare.
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"Mom, which is worse for the environment, making energy from coal or wood?" Admittedly this question is not as off the wall as many, but hey: (more…)
A conservative sent me a passive-aggressive email concerning University of Iowa professor Ellen Lewin's intemperate response to a passive-aggressive email the College Republicans sent about "Conservative Coming Out Week." Instead.
"The only pattern here is that you have no facts!" Polifact's pathetic failed critique of the perfectly fair Democratic ad about the Republican vote to end Medicare as it currently exists must be the most entertainingly botched would-be fact check since FactChuck admonished the Democrats...
Health care is not a regular consumer good in which normal market incentives apply.
This reminds of this: UPDATE [SL]: Speaking of which, let's not forget this special day.
Gov. Perry would apparently like his fellow Texans to listen to more of The Cure.
I have a new Prospect article up on how Roberts and Alito aren't as bad as Scalia and Thomas...they're worse. To make one more point about the remarkable Stuart Taylor.
I awoke this morning with a notion of ridiculing the marginal voices on the intertubes who'd begun winding themselves into knots over a new German "study" claiming that compact fluorescent.
Gail Collins. More of this, please.
Congratulations to our friends at Feministing for receiving a richly deserved Sidney Hillman Foundation award. Oddly, the foundation used the metric of reading the blog's content rather than the conservative.
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent article about the increasing willingness of state legislatures to restrict access to abortion. The facts are depressing: Since the start of this year, 916 measures.