Tinker Tailor Soldier Blogger
Yeah, I’m fishing with the site. So sue me. I’m also working on a review of Mass Effect 3.
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Rise of the right-wing double-speak machine and the Sandra Fluke affair
Think of this as a brief addition to Tod Kelly’s last piece which reminded me how unbelievably silly the American political scene has become. This whole Sandra Fluke affair – my eyes just glaze over. I can’t...
Is Ron Paul secretly working for the Mitt Romney campaign?
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and the likeliest explanation is usually the most straightforward and least complex. So when rumors started surfacing last month that Newt Gingrich’s Super PAC...
A matter of taste
So, I’ve discovered in my blogging of late that adding pictures to posts can really liven up a blog. It adds value at the margin.
Open Thread (Feb. 28th 2012) Ron Swanson is the man edition
Sound off in the comments. Comments? Complaints? Observations?
The Koch brothers and rightwing fusionism
The billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are often painted by the left as anti-worker elites working in the shadows to undermine labor unions, the middle class, and the New Deal. This is only...
Sub-blog site stats
All sub blogs should have stats working once again. Sorry for the delay. It may take a few hours before they’re tracking. Let me know if you have any questions.
Clarifications on a comment culture
In the handful of years this site has been active, we’ve banned four users and a couple dozen IP addresses. Trolls are persistent and take on many identities. It requires some work to ban...
Follow The League on Twitter or Facebook
I’ve set up a Twitter account that should tweet out every post across the League as they’re published, including all sub-blogs. You can follow it here. Same goes for our Facebook page which you...
What are women for?
I keep trying to better understand James Poulos. I like James a great deal, though we disagree pretty fundamentally on many things. I’ve been fascinated by his discussions of the Pink Police State (a conservative...
A poll for the times
Jack Gillis has a poll on religion, which seems appropriate for the current debate, over at his Newsvine blog. Check it out if you have a minute.
Forbes Update
So, some good news on the commenting front at Forbes. Today marks the first day that the site will allow social logins. That means if you’d like to comment on any Forbes blog including...
Contraception is pretty damn important to a woman’s health
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook So our healthcare system is all screwed up for innumerable reasons like the...
Chicago-style politics means you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight
I’m so tired of buzz-phrases repeated endlessly on cable news so that people who are angry and don’t quite know why can repeat them without really thinking about what they mean. Well that’s not...
In Defense Of Newt Gingrich
Or, well, at least in defense of a moon colony. That’s the ground I stake out in my latest piece in The Atlantic.
Citizens United Vs. The GOP
I have yet another defense of Citizens United up, this time at my new politics-only blog. Please let me know if I’m full of it. And yes, I continue to shamelessly promote that blog...
New Blogs!
I’d like to draw your attention to the latest TWO sub-blogs to go live at The League. Jonathan McLeod is writing “The 49th” – a Canadian politics blog with an eye toward American audiences....
Stop Censorship, Stop ACTA
I have a primer up at Forbes on a little known trade agreement, ACTA, which does all the bad stuff that SOPA threatened to do, only worse. Masked as an anti-counterfeiting treaty, ACTA threatens...
Newt’s Secret Ingredient
Just a reminder to all you fine ladies and gentlemen, I will be covering the 2012 election circus with a reasonable amount of snark over at my new American Times politics blog. I have a...
