At some point last year, Christopher Hitchens took an insurmountable lead in the "idiocy in the name of contrarianism" contest he was having with Gregg Easterbrook. I missed this when it came out, but Easterbrook is trying to mount a comeback. Easterbrook has already tried to...
While I generally (if tentatively) agree with Ezra and the Moose that overturning Roe would be bad for the Republican Party at the national level (although, for reasons I've previously discussed, I think.
Bill, we hardly knew ya. . . William Safire, whose political commentary column has appeared on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times for more than 30 years, is.
(warning: long boring post. read at your own risk) It's time we came up with a nice catchy name for the tireless army of people who'll fight tooth and nail against any suggestion that global warming is a real problem that demands real solutions. Here's my...
Oh, dear. Prominent Chinese American author Iris Chang, whose international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking" resurrected the long-ignored atrocities by the Japanese military on Chinese civilians during World War II, died.
Kos writes: No one person more tarnished his legacy the last four years than Colin Powell. His integrity resigned in the runup to Bush's War. Nice to see the rest.
Via the Washington Post: Agency officials have criticized the four former Capitol Hill staffers Goss brought with him for their inexperience. Goss' first choice for executive director — the agency's third-ranking official — withdrew his name after The Washington Post reported he had left the agency...
I'm not sure if Kenneth Baer is one of the people, specifically, that Atrios is talking about, but his article certainly exemplifies the central issue Atrios and Josh Marshall have identified. Now,.
Ever wonder what it's like to run for the Senate as a Democrat in Oklahoma? According to Brad Carson, there's a downside. For one thing, you get invited to Churches to.
Southern reactionaries have suddenly decided they're not so keen on the Madisonian institutional rules that have historically served their interests so well. Can't they make up their minds about what constitutional order they want? According to Dr. Bill "Kitty Kevorkian" Frist, speaking at the Federalist Society: Dr....
Uggabugga suggests a new seal for the DOJ.
While conceding that Christopher Hitchens's latest unintentionally risible strawman-burning is not one of his finest efforts (myself, I can't tell the difference), Michael Totten defends his central thesis, arguing that "[t]he American.