Publius/John Blevins at Obsidian Wings has written quite a bit over the years about the issue of net neutrality. For the most part, I’ll admit, the discussion has largely made my eyes glaze over...
Let us all bow down before the legal genius of Orly Taitz and her minions, who have managed to conclude that a scheduling order entered while a motion to dismiss is pending is proof-positive...
After just glancing through the just-released CBO report [pdf] on the Baucus bill, I can only say that more than ever I believe adopting Wyden’s Free Choice Proposal [pdf] is a necessary move –...
Andrew Sullivan writes: “And, yes, Bush, despite being personally compassionate and understanding of gay men and women and hiring them from the very bottom to the very top of his administration (on the condition...
Via Doug Mataconis on Twitter (who seems to have absolutely exploded since I first encountered him 2 years ago), it seems that Sean Hannity has taken to calling himself “fairly libertarian.” Ugh.
The interesting thing about Glenn Beck is that aside from being completely crazy, his substantive views on policy (if someone like Beck can be described as having substantive views on anything) are about as...
The whiff of tokenism notwithstanding, I’m actually glad to see that there are credible black Republicans angling for high-level political office. I’ve long argued that it would be good for black people, and great...
I suppose, for many liberals and supporters of health care reform, this is long overdue. I wasn’t really paying much attention to politics in 1994, myself.
Much as I hate the use of the term “glibertarian,” and its associated line of thinking, I understood that it could have value as a perjorative for a particular type of fair-weather libertarian in many instances. ...
Following up on Joe Carter’s excellent post last week asking whether Modern Conservatism has become a cult, it occured to me that the most obvious means of answering the question in the affirmative is...
The New York Times explains “The Biden Plan”: Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden made it clear that the option Mr. Biden had proposed was not a pure counterterrorism alternative, relying only on drones and...
“The rhetorical feat that the manifesto accomplishes is in making its threats continual, without resolution. The manifesto spoils for a fight and never ceases.” – Prendergast, Catherine. “Fighting Words.” College English 72.1 (2009): 10-28.
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25India sometimes gets something like this. I'd argue that most countries do get a lessser version of…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Don't worry about it. We all said a lot of things back there in that thread. The important thing is…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25The solution for "how to deal with" the other religion is the normal rules apply. If it's an argumen… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Being governed by idiots is the style of the time but America's long tradition of anit-intellectuali… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25The global left criticizes those and Hinduism or even Budhhism for good measure while basically deci…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Unlike that other religion in the Middle East? on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25The money was in the form of R&D grants. “The surveys they received asked several questions incl…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Given the whole "deficit" thing, I think it's easy to make the argument that "not using it at all" i…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25The stuff people have been talking about since, oh, 2020. on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25I am looking at this from the perspective of United States citizens. What good does this do to the p…
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