Author: Elias Isquith

Forgive me: another post born from the intellectual wellspring that is Ron Paul’s Iowa boomlet. But this one has little to do with the man himself. Instead, I want to take a closer look...

I think it’s fair to say that, Barack Obama aside, no politician of the current moment has attracted as passionate, enduring, and diverse a following as Ron Paul. The heterogeneity of their constituents is probably...

Here’s how a reader explains to Sully why it is the newsletters don’t impact their support of Paul in 2012: The reason people are ignoring the 30 year old newsletters written by other people...

Responding to the recent decision by House Republicans to agree to a two-month extension of the payroll tax cuts — after an unseemly and unnecessary game of chicken during which, achieving the seeming impossible,...

I think John Nichols is way too excited about the unquestionably momentary and ephemeral Ron Paul boomlet; but this, at least, is probably correct: Ron Paul is not a progressive. He takes stands on...

In response to the video above Charles Johnson writes: Newt apparently hates gays so much he’ll even pass up their votes. For a career politician like Gingrich, that’svery revealing. Johnson is just one of...

If you haven’t read Tod’s rumination on what Christopher Hitchens meant to him and how he will be remembered, I recommend you do so now. As is always the case with Tod’s front-page work,...

By this point you’ve probably already heard the most popular, latest eye-catching bit of agitprop trivia on economic inequality in America. In case you haven’t I’ll share what I think (could be wrong) was...

On the new Medicare proposal from Paul Ryan and Ron Wyden, Digby writes: One might have thought the prudent thing would be to wait and see how the health care reforms work before throwing...

I’m going to be doing so over at www.sulia.com; and I’ve been invited to bring along however many of the blog-folk here (i.e., front-pagers) would like to join. Shoot me an email if you...

Responding to the ad above, Allahpundit writes: The “unlike some people” is merely implied, but this one’s so heavy-handed that he might as well have tacked on a few shots of Newt with his...

I wanted to flag this Guardian report because, as League regulars will remember, it gets to the heart of what became a rather contentious debate ’round here during the London riots: Were the rioters self-consciously political...

There’s been a mild lull in Occupy Wall Street activity as of late — chalk it up to the turkey and the cold, I suppose — and the respite from breaking news has allowed...

I still think Romney’s going to win the nomination, but it’s going to be damn fun watching Gingrich make him work for it. Newt’s major advantage, of course — perhaps his only advantage —...

A weird article from The New York Times purports to reveal a growing consensus among lawmakers, born from the failed Super Committee, in favor of eliminating Medicare as we know it in favor of...

Jonathan Chait’s debut (I think) long-read for New York Magazine is on liberal discontent with President Obama, something Chait has grappled with, argued against, and endeavored to understand throughout the Obama Presidency — or...

One wonders how much the rise of Newtmentum influenced this decision: The answer to one of the great lingering questions about the Republican presidential race has suddenly turned up here along Ingersoll Avenue, where...

While the behavior of the NYPD has been heavy-handed and disproportionate since the Occupy movement’s very start, the violence and lawlessness that characterized the actions of the police yesterday was extraordinary. Thankfully, the countless...

There’s been a lot of talk about democracy hereabouts during the past month or so. And I think that’s a really cool, good thing. It’s the kind of non-topical conversation that can be hard...

Tom Jensen from Public Policy Polling has some new figures about the Occupy movement’s dwindling stature in the public’s eyes: The Occupy Wall Street movement is not wearing well with voters across the country....