“You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.” ~ Democratic candidate...
Year: 2010
“Makes No Sense at All” by Husker Du
(cross-posted from my blog) If you look at the breakdown for the House’s vote on health care reform,...
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...
David Rothkopf, in what I (charitably) assume is supposed to be a political self-confession (complete with self-flagellation)...
Mark Hemingway gives the Tea Partiers credit for supporting moderate Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts senate...
In the wake of Pat Robertson’s latest foray into amateur seismology, Joe Carter compiled a helpful list...
A pretty good George Will column on the constitutionality of a health insurance mandate. I’m waiting on...
TPM is live-blogging developments in Haiti.
Opponents of merit pay often argue that performance-based compensation punishes good teachers for factors beyond their control....
Foreign Policy collects a few hilariously anachronistic quotes from media coverage of England’s 60s-era counter-insurgency operations in...
The Russian Communist Party weighs in on the issue of the day.
Indulge me, if you will, in a little self-reflection. I would probably describe myself as a libertarian...
Chuck Norris is much more entertaining as a conspiracy theorist than he was as an actor. Â He...
Here’s the trailer for David Simon’s new show and here’s the trailer (and press release!) for “The...
Goes to The “Unauthorized” Documentary of Matthew Gray Gubler. Â Gubler is best known as Dr. Reid, the...
(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...
Slate dissects Domino’s latest television ad, which rolls out the company’s “new and improved” pizza after airing...
Mother Jones captures the uneasy relationship between youth outreach and movement conservatism:
