The Flame Represents Bad Things You Shouldn’t Touch
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 30th, 2009 at 5:11 pmMy former roommate just sent along this article, about the state of the GOP.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The only bright spot in the nation’s capital…
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The Silver Jews’ Frontman Hates Corporate Lobbying… and Dad?
By Jake Blumgart - Jan 30th, 2009 at 4:34 pmThis is too good.
It turns out that David Berman, front man of the Silver Jews, is the son of the Richard Berman, one of…
Disillusioned Voting
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 30th, 2009 at 3:22 pmLee Sigelman at The Monkey Cage shares his study of whether voters voted for a presidential candidate or against the other candidate in elections since…
Why Didn’t Google Go Back in Time to Protect President Bush’s Feelings?
By L. Russell Allen - Jan 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pmYou remember back in The Dark Ages when George W. Bush was president? You Googled “miserable failure” and President Bush’s White House biography was the…
The Gregg Ploy
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 30th, 2009 at 12:40 pmLike my fellow Granite Stater Tim Fernholz, I relish any opportunity to talk about New Hampshire politics outside the context of the primary. So I’m…
The Double Failure of Boehner And The Right
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 29th, 2009 at 4:13 pmNed has a good post up at his home blog about the the zero “yea” votes by Republicans on the stimulus package. Here’s the thing…
Flipside Conservatism
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pmI’m starting to think conservatives have it backwards. Ta-Nehisi Coates highlighted this article arguing that President Obama is conservative:
Because progressive commentators depict Bush as…
All 1930s Comparisons, All the Time
By Jake Blumgart - Jan 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pmWhile reading Irving Howe’s Socialism and America over the weekend I couldn’t help but notice similarities between our collective reaction to the present economic crisis…
Get Used to This Phrase: “Center-left Nation”
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 26th, 2009 at 10:44 amVia Steve Benen, Gallup found that more Americans are identifying as Democrats these days than at any point since Gallup began asking this question. Including…
Obama Ends Torture, Takes Advantage of Unprecedented Executive Power
By Jamelle Bouie - Jan 26th, 2009 at 9:34 amCommenting on Barack Obama’s first week in the Oval Office, Salon’s Mike Madden noted that “with a few strokes of a pen… President Obama undid…
Obama the Centrist?
By Jake Blumgart - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pmVictor Navasky has some interesting thoughts on the “centrist” label the punditry favor in regards to President Obama’s place on the ideological spectrum.
It strikes…
Rep. Bill Young: I Am Cranky That Some People Have Rights
By Jesse Singal - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pmRep. Bill Young (R-Florida), chiming in on the controversy over President Obama’s executive order that the Guantanamo Bay prison be shuttered within a year:
“Number…
I’ve Got a Theory, It Could Be NAFTA
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 amThere are plenty of reasons to be disappointed by David Paterson’s appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand to succeed Hillary Clinton in the Senate. Gillibrand is more…
2008 Installment of Freshman Thoughts and Values
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 amI only wish I could have taken part in this survey: the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA has published the latest installment in its…
In Defense of the Boo-birds
By Jesse Singal - Jan 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pmI definitely get what Jessica is saying in her argument that folks on the Mall shouldn’t have booed former President Bush (that was the first…
