(cross-posted from my blog) If you look at the breakdown for the House’s vote on health care reform, you’ll see that of the 39 Democrats voting against reform, 24 were Blue Dogs. Nearly each of...
TNR on Playboy and modern America. Roger Ebert: “Making out is its own reward.” Hear, hear!
The trouble with folks like Mark Steyn is that all their clamor about Europe being swept away in a tide of hostile immigrants obscures the very real problem of assimilating new arrivals. Steyn, for...
David Rothkopf, in what I (charitably) assume is supposed to be a political self-confession (complete with self-flagellation) on Haiti: In all its benighted history, perhaps Haiti’s greatest moment of hope since its independence came...
Mark Hemingway gives the Tea Partiers credit for supporting moderate Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts senate election.
In the wake of Pat Robertson’s latest foray into amateur seismology, Joe Carter compiled a helpful list of the good reverend’s most egregious public statements. Read it and wince.
A pretty good George Will column on the constitutionality of a health insurance mandate. I’m waiting on our resident legal expert to weigh in with a more informed opinion.
Opponents of merit pay often argue that performance-based compensation punishes good teachers for factors beyond their control. A new article from The Atlantic suggests that administrators and teachers are getting markedly better at measuring...
Foreign Policy collects a few hilariously anachronistic quotes from media coverage of England’s 60s-era counter-insurgency operations in Yemen:
Indulge me, if you will, in a little self-reflection. I would probably describe myself as a libertarian conservative. I’m pretty sympathetic to the ideas of limited, decentralized government, free markets, and a decent respect...
Chuck Norris is much more entertaining as a conspiracy theorist than he was as an actor. He takes teh crazy to whole new levels.
Here’s the trailer for David Simon’s new show and here’s the trailer (and press release!) for “The Avon Barksdale Story.”
Goes to The “Unauthorized” Documentary of Matthew Gray Gubler. Gubler is best known as Dr. Reid, the nerdy super-genius profiler on Criminal Minds. Who knew he had such brilliant comic timing? These series of...
(cross-posted from my blog) Writing in praise of Halperin and Heilemann’s Game Change, Marc Ambinder predicts that political scientists won’t find much to love in the book’s depiction of politics: Political scientists aren’t going to like this book, because it...
Slate dissects Domino’s latest television ad, which rolls out the company’s “new and improved” pizza after airing some especially brutal customer criticism.
Mother Jones captures the uneasy relationship between youth outreach and movement conservatism:
An interesting article on 19th century conservative reformism from David Frum.
It is impossible to understand politics in the United States over the last 12 months without some in-depth discussion of the impact of the Tea Party movement. Over the course of the last several...
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