My kind of obit:And Friedman's one success? In 1942, during world war two, Friedman actually went to work for the US government. While there he helped design the payroll tax that in Britain is known as PAYE, Pay As You Earn, and in the US as...
There are plenty of free lunches in heaven.Congrats to Loomis, who had the foresight to include him on this year's Dead Pool list.At the end of July, I wrote about.
Admittedly, it's probably not quite on the level of David Hager or Leon Kass. But the Bush administration has dug up yet another anti-choice crackpot to serve as Deputy Assistant.
149-86 was the vote. Given what I know, he seems like the better of the two highly suboptimal alternatives.
Shorter New Republic editorial board: "OK, we "regret" our support for the Iraq war, but not in ways that lead us to seriously question the underlying theoretical or empirical assumptions.
I see Carville is continuing his ridiculous crusade against the DNC chair who presided over a Congressional victory nobody could have plausibly foreseen a year ago. The key graf is.
Patterico on Bush sending some of his most unqualified wingnut appointments back to the Senate again: "polls show that Americans like cautious judges who hew closely to the text of the Constitution and relevant statutes." Indeed! So I think we can all agree then that the...
The flicks I've seen in the last couple of weeks...Departed: I didn't like Departed quite as much as Scott, although he's probably right that it's the best American film thus.
. . . instead, I'm hosting the latest installment of the History Carnival at my other property.Drop by and click a few links. It's all good -- except for the.
Don Surber: "[Mitch McConnell] was the guy who not only opposed McCain-Feingold, but took it to court. Unfortunately, the first woman Supreme Court justice ignored the First Amendment and upheld that campaign deform." Those damned women--they screw up everything! Whether John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Stephen...
A Republican-led panel in Missouri has claimed that illegal immigration is caused by...abortion. But I'm not sure why they're stopping there: if they banned birth control, that would really stop.
Shorter Verbatim Grover Norquist: "Bob Sherwood's seat would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn’t whined about being throttled." Yeah, what a tragedy that these moral giants no longer.