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- A Soft Re-Launch of 2parse
- The Sheeple of r/libertarian
- Right Wing Mythology
- Campbell's Law
- The Little Trumpet Player
- Paul Ryan's America
- Capitalism in Practice
- AT&T Is Asking Us To Trust Them
- Bloomberg: How To Use Immigration Policy to Save Detroit
- In Response To Those Disturbed By Celebrating on the Death of Bin Laden
- The Winklevoss Twins of Getting Bin Laden
- Not All Church Signs Are Stupid
2010 189
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-01-01
- A Witness Who Thinks
- Fiercely Honoring Hope Witsell
- David Brooks Is Writing a Damn Good Column These Days
- The Obvious Truths Neglected in Responses to the Christmas Bomber
- A recovering procrastinator of pleasure
- "The past should stay in the heart, where it belongs."
- The Utter Moral Certainty of Right Wing National Security Policy
- Victor Davis Hanson's "Productive Classes"
- Bipartisan in Substance
- In Praise of Tinkering: Health Care Reform
- Ressentiment Redux
- The Future of the Tea Party
- Scalia Seems Confused About Natural Law
- Must-Reads of the Week: Pete King, Manzi's Thesis, Obama's WoT, Literary Sex, and American Jeremiads
- The Rhetorical Phantoms of Their Own Making
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-01-08
- Pinhead of the Week: NJ Dem Frank Lautenberg
- What passes for journalism today is faux-outrage presented without any perspective.
- John Yoo's Scandalous Affair With George W. Bush!
- No post today.
- The Continued Failure of Right Wing Social Engineering
- The Value of Military Innocence
- I'm with #teamconan
- The Future of the Tea Party (cont.)
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-01-15
- The Limits of China's Economic Model
- Why Scott Brown's Election is Good for the Nation and the Democratic Party
- Draw Your Own Conclusions
- Governing Ambition Versus Political Theater
- The Economist's Podcast Entitled "The Democrats lose Massachusetts" Is "an insult to people's intelligence."
- Conan's Revenge: Comedy Bits That Aren't So Much Funny As They Are Crazy Expensive
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-01-22
- The Edwards Morality Tale
- Buck Up, Democrats!
- Misunderstanding Race and the Under-30 Voters
- Worrying About Downside Risk
- Obama versus Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism
- Hard to Believe: The Newest Allegation in the Edwards Scandal
- Story-Teller-In-Chief
- Charlie Crist, Democrat?
- Before You Watch Obama's Speech Tonight...
- Downside Risk and Upside Potential
- An excellent State of the Union
- Defending Obama's First Year in Office
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama (mythical figure), Democratic Talking Points, Health Care Misinformation & Defenses of Reform, & Musical Predictions
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-01-29
- Ezra Klein: Our government's partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run systems.
- Obama: You're Calling Me a 'Bolshevik' for Using Republican Ideas for Democratic Ends
- Americans Want a Second Bush-Cheney Administration?
- Respected Republican Answers the Question: "But how will you save all that money?"
- Not even the Bush administration argued that the Constitution applies only to American citizens
- This lede bugs me...
- Understanding President Obama and the budget deficit
- Explaining Republican Obstructionism: Party First
- How To Oppose Doing What the People Want: Pretend It's Something Else
- Obama: "I do not accept second place for the United States of America"
- Let's keep all that talk of a failed first year in office to a minimum.
- Must-Reads of the Week: Ezra Klein, Sleeper Issue of 2010, Success, Virtual Insanity, Abdulmutallab, Obstruction, and Madden
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-02-05
- "To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature."
- Richard Shelby's Brazen Exposure of Senate Flaws
- Why Bipartisanship Is Impossible: The parties are locked in a zero-sum struggle for control of the government
- Why the Republicans Don't Want to Go to the Obama Health Care Summit They've Been Demanding
- How the Media Undermines Civility
- The Hypocrisy of Hoekstra
- The Disparity Between the President's Foreign and Domestic Powers
- What Obama Is Trying to Accomplish With the Bipartisan Health Care Summit
- Wieseltier owes Andrew Sullivan an apology. And The New Republic owes its readers a retraction.
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-02-12
- The 2parse Winter Recess
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-02-19
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-02-26
- Lamar Alexander Defends Senate from Those Who Say It Needs Reform
- Obama Chooses Policy Over Politics
- The Difference Between Obama's Health Care Reform and the Republican's Health Care Reform
- “Outsiders are what people want right now.”
- Obama's pragmatic ambitions
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-03-05
- Must-Reads During This Week: Perfect Storm for Health Reform, Making Controversy, Cyberwar, Limiting Government, Liz Cheney's Al Qaeda Connection, George Will, and the Coffee Party
- Paul Ryan's Principled Objections to Obama's Health Care Reforms
- Obama's Health Care Reforms are morally decent technocratic improvements
- Preparing "Patriots" For What Is Coming
- Does the real Krauthammer believe Obama is trying to destroy America or not?
- Must-Reads of the Week: A history lesson, Reconciling Chart, Theism, Starbucks, the New Global Middle Class, the Beijing Consensus, and the Traitorous Supreme Court
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-03-12
- Massive March Storms Hits Wantagh, New York
- Must-Reads of the Week: China's distortionary exchange rate policy, Mario Savio, David Brooks, Ezra Klein, & Dana Priest's The Mission
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-03-19
- The Unhinged Anger on the Right Leads to An Ill-Advised and Unhedged Bet Against Reform.
- Obama's Self-Interest Lies With the American People's; the Republican Party's Self-Interest Does Not.
- Worth a Thousand Words
- Thumbnail Sketches of Democrats and Republicans
- We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true.
- Copyright and the White House Photostream
- Liberalism and the Punishments of the Free Market
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform (cont.)
- This Week With Christiane Amanpour
- Must-Reads of the Week: Google/China, Liberal American Exceptionalism, The Failed War on Drugs, Defending the Individual Mandate, Counter Counter-Insurgency, Idiocrats, and Men Did It!
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-03-26
- Israel: Your American Tax Dollars At Work
- Which Party Is More Wingnutty?
- Brent Bozell Deliberately Misleads His Readers!
- Senator Lindsey Graham: Fiscal Chickenhawk
- Evaluating Mitt Romney's 2012 Candidacy
- Tomorrow!
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-04-02
- Surveillance In the Bush Administration
- Dammit, Reddit! You know I sorta love you, but sometimes...
- Evaluating Mitt Romney’s 2012 Candidacy (cont.)
- TownHall.com Promotes Google Takeover of Bloggerwave Fantasy
- The Efficacy of Drone Attacks
- Government Is Good!
- Craziness in My Email
- Must-Reads of the Week: Nukes, Inconsistencies, Graphing the Economic Crisis, Half-Hookers, Palin 2012, Mailer's Wife, & Complex Business Models
- Supply-side Theology
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-04-09
- Nuclear Policy in an Age of Terrorism and Madmen
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement.
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement. (cont.)
- Republicans have an absolutely brilliant strategy on financial reform. Too bad it's evil.
- The Beijing Consensus
- Must-Reads of the Week: Diabolical Republicans, Strategic Patience, Weiner, China, New York City, -20 Questions, & Glenn Beck's Obsession With Woodrow Wilson
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-04-16
- How Financial Innovation Causes Financial Crises
- How To Identify a Member of the Tea Party
- Wall Street's enormous profits are evidence of a poorly functioning market.
- Tracing a single graph across the web
- Wall Street's enormous profits are evidence of a poorly functioning market (cont.)
- Miracles Can Happen!
- How Not To Prove Someone Is Not a Racist
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama's Accomplishments and Diplomatic Brand, Facebook, Epistemic Closure, Financial Reform, Our Long-Term Fiscal Crisis and Problem-Solving Capacity, and Mike Allen
- One of the Coolest Baseball Plays I've Ever Seen.
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-04-23
- Yglesias Award Nominee
- Wingnuts
- Arizona's Illegal Immigrant Problem Is Shrinking Even As The Hysteria Grows
- Greenwald v. Larison & Douthat
- Volker's Paradox
- Why Marco Rubio Is the Future of the Republican Party
- Chait v. Seib: "Seib, like Jeffrey Dahmer, is an imperfect human being."
- Must-Reads of the Week: American Power, Inequality, 1 Billion Heartbeats, Hacking Life, Anthora Cups, Structural Deficit, Financial Doomsedays and Crises, China, the Tea Party's Views on Immigration, and Lady Gaga
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-04-30
- America in the Red
- Connecting the Dots on Epistemic Closure
- The rare off-day
- Why Terrorists Aim For Big Well-Defended Targets
- Why Can't Right-Wingers Recognize Democratic Efforts to Tackle the Deficit?
- Must-Reads of the Week: The Obama 20-somethings, Graham's Cojones, Fannie/Freddie, Naive Conspiracy Theorists, Saban, Obama=Socialism, Political Imitations, Underdogs, Lost!, and Julián Castro
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-05-07
- Rooting for a Fiscal Catastrophe (cont.)
- A Sustainable Afghanistan Policy
- How the Supreme Court Nomination Process Rewards the Type of People Who Defer to Presidential Authority
- Our Nation's Drug Enforcement in a Nutshell
- Right Wing Christians Against Net Neutrality Want To Censor Your Internet
- Must-Reads of the Week: SWAT, Google's News Plans, MTA Motto, Peanuts, Tea Party Feminism, Republican Pravda, Fiscal Hangover, New York's Tyranny, Brooks on the Military, and Facebook Backlash
- A Message from the WSJ
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-05-14
- How Lawless and Increasingly Violent is the Arizona-Mexico Border? Not Very.
- An Epidemic of Not Watching
- Some brief thoughts on Rand Paul
- Must-Reads of the Week: The IRA, Journalism, Unsavory Profits, Bipartisanship, and the Tyranny of New York
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-05-21
- Health Care Reform: A Test of Whether the Country Could Tackle Its Most Vexing, Long-Term, Systematic Problems
- The use of propaganda to re-define the political landscape
- Got too much to do
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-05-28
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-06-04
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-06-11
- The Victimhood Complex of the Right-Wing
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-06-18
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-07-02
- 2parse is not yet done
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-07-09
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-07-16
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-07-23
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-08-06
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-08-13
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-08-20
- Lies and Facts About the "Ground Zero Mosque"
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-08-27
- True Story.
- Protesters Bring Missiles to Ground Zero
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-09-03
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-09-17
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-10-01
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-10-22
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-11-12
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2010-11-19
2009 549
- Happy 2009!
- The Best Minds of a Generation, Naked, and Destroyed by Madness
- Looking Through Iseman's Complaint Against The New York Times
- Talking In Empty Rooms
- Matt Harding Confesses "Elaborate Hoax"
- Yes, the Senate Can Refuse to Seat Roland Burris
- I Secretly Want to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the Head
- The Financial Crisis as a Mood
- The Financial Crisis as a Bawling Baby
- Israel and Hamas
- Israel and Hamas (cont.)
- Eliot Spitzer v. Sarah Connor
- The Dynamics of Moral Outrage, Group Hatred, and Violence
- Reflective Policy-making
- A Double Standard
- A Double Standard (cont.)
- Europe's Impotence
- The Existential Clown
- Immanence
- Defending Caroline Kennedy
- A Tortured Plot Device
- Blogging Break
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism
- A Useful Bullying
- Al Qaeda versus Obama (again)
- Even Worse Than John Roberts
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism (cont.)
- Stirring Up Trouble
- My Thirteen Favorite Updike Quotes
- Someone Who Predicted the Financial Crisis
- Not Taking the War on Terror Seriously
- Why It Should Be A 'War' Against Terrorism
- Galvanized By Sexual Panic
- Fair-Minded Yglesias
- The Populist Party Blog
- Science's A Priori Assumptions
- 41 Tells a Joke
- Torture, Plain and Simple
- Holocaust Survivors for the Legalization of Marijuana
- The Highlights From Davos
- A Question About "E-Mail to the Chief"
- Banksters
- Obama's Grand Bargain
- What's Wrong With the Stimulus Plan
- The Back of Obama's Hand
- The Inherent Character Flaws of Politicians
- Wall Street Exec: "I’d almost rather say I’m a pornographer."
- A Cross Between Venus and Hercules
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe (cont.)
- The Last Thing We Need Is A Liberal Scalia
- The Brave and Wise Politician
- Why I'm Confident About Obama (Still)
- Weekend Update: Obama Screwed Up; So Did Kellogs
- Exercise can cause serious or fatal injuries.
- Greenwald's Rhetorical Tics
- The Obama I Remember
- How could I be truthful with Katie Couric?
- Stephen Colbert Comments on Bill Gates's Mosquito Attack
- Commenting on Paul Krugman
- The Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege
- Obama's Long Game
- Reading the Independent Congressional Research Service Reports on the Stimulus So You Don't Have To
- Afpak & Iran
- Friedman is annoying, but essentially correct
- Post-Cold War Triumphalism
- The War on Drugs Is Making Us Less Safe
- Iran's Strategic Realignment
- Interpeting Obama's Stimulus Strategy
- The History of the Earth in 60 Seconds
- The Proper Use of the Relationship Status on Facebook
- James Glassman's Debatable History
- Stimulus Is What We Need
- George F. Will's Ultimate Putdown
- A Scientific Approach To The Economic Crisis
- What Are Republican Principles Again?
- What Are Republican Principles Again? (cont.)
- The War on Drugs is Making Us Less Safe (cont.)
- An Age of Upheaval? - Instability, Legitimacy, and the Economic Crisis
- The Games Obama Plays
- Andrew Sullivan's Warning Shot
- Comparing Michael Phelps's and A-Rod's Sins
- The Hypocrisy of the Traders' Revolt
- The Mechanics of the Market Versus the Morality of the Market
- The War on Drugs is Making Us Less Safe: Mexico
- The Latitude To Be Human
- Will New York Survive The Financial Crisis?
- Charles Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire, and Somalia
- Dubya's China Legacy
- A Confession of Love To The Paradox That Is America
- The Opportunity of Foreclosure
- Jindal's Soapbox
- Congressman Pete King Wants Club Med Investigated For Human Rights Violations Just Like Guantanamo
- The Larger Narrative
- Mechanical Economics
- Schwarzeneger Demonstrates the Idiocy of Anti-Partisanship
- The Partisan Eruption During Obama's State of the Union
- Preparing For A Summer of Rage
- Bobby Jindal's Soapbox (cont.)
- The only thing worse than spam is self-righteous spam.
- Former Drug Czar McCaffrey Doesn't Care If Marijuana Is Legalized
- Ross Douthat's Snap Judgment
- A Summary of the Civil Libertarian Case for a "War" Against Terrorism
- Jindal 2012 (cont.)
- A Liberal's Flat Tax
- The Story That Tells You Everything You Need To Know About US-Pakistan Relations
- Pakistan: The Nexus
- Piercing the White House Bubble
- We Cannot Pass the Buck
- Signs of the Coming Upheaval
- Clear-eyed Engagement
- Funding Both Sides of Mexico's Drug War
- The 7 Layers of Opposing Obama's Response to the Financial Crisis
- Move Over Joe the Plumber...
- Jon Stewart takes on Santelli and the Stock Market
- Don't Be Idiots: Stop Talking About the Fairness Doctrine
- Jim Cramer Jumps the Shark
- Free markets exist not in spite of the government, but because of government.
- The Battle of the Elites
- Jimmy Fallon Slow Jams the News
- The Unintended Consequences of a War on Drugs
- Clive Crook's "Everything For Nothing"
- Housing in Detroit
- Stimulus and Stability
- Obama on the Blogs
- Culture War: Overclass Edition
- The Rule of Law
- The Battle of the Rich
- AIG Explains Why It Is Too Big To Fail
- The Reagan Revolution
- The Reagan Revolution (cont.)
- The Significance of Jack Bauer
- Colin Gray on China, Terrorism, and Proliferation
- The Specter of Suburban Contentment
- The Primal Politics of Pakistan
- The Pope Is Lying To Us
- The Jack Bauer Archetype
- Former Drug Czars Against the War on Drugs
- Former Drug Czars Against the War on Drugs (cont.)
- Liberty in the Face of Men With Guns
- The Opposite of Counterinsurgency
- The Real Scandal of AIG
- The Iran-Iraq Balance
- The Reagan Revolution (cont.)
- Collective Intelligence and the Military
- Economics, Fairness, & Stability
- Ruminations on the Egg and the Wall
- Sarkozy: Right on nothing, prescient on everything
- "The Disgraced Former Governor" on WNYC
- The Price of Prohibition I: Propping Up The Mexican Cartels
- Gallows Humor from an FT Employee
- Eliot Spitzer's Comeback
- Signs of Hope: Iran
- The Paradox In Organzing For America
- The Only Credible Response to Globalization
- The Dollar As a Negotiated Currency
- Glenn Greenwald uses hyperbole the way other writers use punctuation.
- Stimulus and Stability (cont.)
- Outlasting America in Afghanistan
- The Obama Doctrine
- A man who thinks in grand words made up of few letters.
- The Government Role in a Capitalist Economy
- Joe Campbell: I'm Not a Sexist Because I Disagree With Angie Harmon
- Why It's A Good Sign That Byron Trott Is Leaving Goldman Sachs
- Is This Downturn a Crisis of Confidence or a Fundamental Error?
- The elation of victory is fleeting and the burden of responsibility is enduring
- Financial Markets : Real Economy (Is There a Proper Balance?)
- The Two Novels That Can Change Your Life
- The Master Plan Always Has Flaws
- Richter's Deferential Robin & Conan's Absurdist Batman
- The Soft Underbelly of the Modern State
- Torture is worse than immoral: it’s tactically stupid
- Early Weekend
- Orwellian Tactics
- The Real Obama Enigma
- A Typically Wrong-headed Krauthammer Column
- My Mixed Feelings About Facebook
- The Banality of Both Evil and Good
- Jon Stewart Analyzes What Makes Republicans Cry, "Tyranny!"
- Tweeting Revolution
- List Week! coming 4/20
- 7 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
- Barack Obama Declares the War on Drugs "an utter failure"
- The Not Incredible Adventures of the Down and Out Dollar
- Framing the Torture Debate
- John Boehner on Global Warming: Cow Farts, Carcinogen, and a Pained Expression
- Ten Principles of Liberalism
- 3 interesting short essays
- Cheney Didn't Panic
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: The Chinese-American economic imbalance
- Palin the Performer
- Joe Campbell's Google Profile
- Torture Works...For Some Things...
- When Obama Should Torture Osama
- How to Prevent the Swine Flu
- Right-wingers Obsessed About Obama's "Apology Tour"
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Misjudging Risk
- Obama's 100 Days
- Name, Rank and Serial Number
- The Irony in the Jane Harman Mess
- Homo Blogicus, Pup, Pakistan, Torture, Marijuana, and the Revenge of Geography
- Replacing Souter
- The Value of a Safety Net
- Why Should I Care If a Terrorist Was Tortured?
- Andrew C. McCarthy's Self-Righteous Sophistry
- Taxing the Wealthy
- Pakistan: The Edge of the Abyss
- Profiling Holy Cross Grad Mark Walsh
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: The Government Did It!
- Equality of Result versus Equality of Opportunity
- The Amnesia of the Right
- Understanding Reactionaries
- Must-Reads of the Week
- Simultaneously Horrified and Fascinated
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Animal Spirits
- Fox News uses Nazi propaganda to defend torture, attack Obama
- How Pakistan Is Like AIG
- State Capitalism and Government (In)Efficiency
- Dramatizing the Ticking Time Bomb Scenario
- Justin Timberlake's Great, Great Grandfather
- Ali Soufan Goes to Washington
- Quote of the Day
- The Lessons of Torture in World War II
- If you didn't lose your anal virginity to the Department of Homeland Security...
- The intellectual deterioration of the conservative movement
- Cheney Is Preemptively Politicizing The Next Attack
- Must-Reads This Weekend
- Obama and the Rule of Law
- Facebook Diplomacy
- Contra Taibbi: Fighting Them Over There So We Don't Need to Fight Them Here
- We Are All Guilty
- David Brooks's Special Place in Washington
- Conservative Empathy
- Stephen Walt's Insights
- A Truth Commission
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Greed
- Irony Watch: Cheney on Euphemisms
- A Week Off From Blogging
- Judge Sotomayor
- Conan: "It’s almost like a sight gag that I’m in L.A."
- The Reagan Revolution (continued as Paul Krugman echoes me)
- Twitter Updates for 2009-06-01
- "Nobody’s going to wage a tough political battle to give up power."
- Rewriting the Rules of Capitalism
- Facebook Diplomacy (cont.)
- Twitter Updates for 2009-06-02
- Brink Lindsey v. Paul Krugman
- Variations on a Theme
- The Reagan Revolution (cont.)
- The Cairo Rapprochement
- Leverage and Power
- "We must say openly the things we hold in our hearts."
- Khamenei, Palestinian Classical Music, Waterboarding Pro-Life Terrorists, and the Renegade Boy Guru
- The Reagan Revolution (cont.)
- Closed-Door Hearings
- Judge Sotomayor Defends a Racist Cop
- The Supreme Court Holds Up the Chrysler Sale
- Obama's Grand Bargain (as a necessary response to the deficit problem)
- Iran's Green "Revolution"
- Stay Classy, Sarah Palin: Palin Insinuates David Letterman is a Child Rapist
- The more extreme the Government's abuses are, the more compelling is the need for suppression
- The Limits of the Free Market
- Mirror Neurons, Iran's Fissures, Yglesian Insights, The Deficit Crisis, Rare Minerals
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-06-12
- Biden Says Talks With Iran To Go Forward
- A New Phase in the Culture War: National Security
- Generation Green: Connecting the Pakistani Lawyers Movement to the Iranian Green Revolution
- A few disjointed thoughts on Iran
- Are The Pieces Aligning on Health Care?
- NSA's Secret Pinwale Program Used to Spy on Bill Clinton
- A Generational Bargain (in which we are getting screwed)
- A Counterbalancing Bloc
- How Does the Iranian Conflict End?
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-06-19
- All About Iran: Iran's Social Bargain, Maximal Uncertainty, and Breaking News
- It Will Be a Revolution
- How Obama Uses Civility and Respect as Political Weapons
- The High Point of Web Journalism
- Experimenting With National Security Policy
- John McCain's Hip-Shooting Onanism
- The Incoherence of Ajami
- A Pink Elephant Through the Looking Glass
- A Different Take on the Iranian Situation
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-06-26
- Obama Hasn't Betrayed The Gay Rights Movement (Yet)
- The Obama Doctrine
- A Positive Indicator in Iran?
- The Rule of Law in Honduras
- A "Smart" Girl's Partisanly-Selective Indignation
- Michael Jackson's Gift to the Ayatollah Khamenei
- What the Iranian Green Revoltion Has Accomplished
- Email UPS to Stop Their Sponsorship of Glenn Beck's Advocating Terrorism To "Save" America
- Matt Yglesias's Prejudiced Caricature of Catholicism
- It Is a "War"
- Explaining Obama's "Double Standard" Regarding Iran and Honduras
- The Honeymoon Is Over
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-07-03
- Happy Birthday, America! Our Modern-Day George Wallace (in heels) is giving up the little power she has
- The People’s Rage At A System That Had Failed Them
- Organizing a Grass Roots Movement for Health Care Reform
- Noam Chomsky's Useful Fantasy
- The Collateral Damage in Honduras
- My Congressman Pete King Pisses On Michael Jackson; I Repay the Favor
- The Intellectual History of the Green Wave
- Our Lady of the Law
- The Goal of the Commentariat
- Defending American Empire
- Henry Kissinger on Obama
- Justice Ginsburg Loses a Shoe
- How the Problem of Health Care Undermines the Legitimacy of the Market-State
- An idea for a new health care public service announcement
- McNamara, Cuomo, Bearing Witness, Iran's Bomb, Sri Lanken Victories, and Historical Dignity
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-07-10
- There Is Such A Thing As A Right to Health Care
- Campbell Brown Does the Best Journalism Ever!
- On Media Bias
- Is The Secret Plan Panetta Found Hersh's "Executive Assasination Ring"?
- The Medical Loss Ratio
- Why I Despise Sarah Palin
- On Media Bias and Conventional Wisdom (cont.)
- Iranian Authorities Using Facebook and Twitter for Intelligence Gathering
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Hubris of the Bankers
- Cokie Roberts Thinks the Rule of Law Might Be More Important Than A Pleasant Atmosphere in Washington
- Alberto Gonzales: Sharp Like An Old Crayon
- The Success of Goldman Sachs as a Repudiation of the Free Market
- Tear down our capitalist system and replace it with a free market.
- Sympathizing with AIG, Peace with Islamists, Senator Al Franken, Jay-Z, the Newest Lost Generation, and the Future of Journalism
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-07-17
- The Associated Press Jumps the Copyright Shark
- Health Care Reform To Stimulate the Entrepreneurship
- A Distinctly American Health Care System
- Sick of all this naivete about Obama
- The Lesson of 1993/1994
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Goldman Sachs Did It!
- The Option of Doing Nothing on Health Care
- The Intoxicating Effect of Fatigue
- Our Wall-Street Run Health Care
- The Federal Reserve, Henry Gates, Popular Policies, Health Care, Krugman on Cap and Trade, and High Times
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-07-24
- Apologizing to the Associated Press
- Dreaming can be dangerous
- A Leap of Faith on Health Care
- Health Care Reform: Choice and Security
- Instead of a Fairness Doctine, a Fair Shake
- Stop ObamaCare Before Obama Murders Your Comatose Wife and Infant Daughter!
- The Libertarian-Democratic Alliance Will Survive
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Goldman Sachs Did It! (cont.)
- Bill Maher Explains Why Profits Don't Need To Be Part of Our Health Care System
- Is Obama Leading Us To A Technocratic Dystopia?
- Best Line of the Week
- Glenn Greenwald's Ideological Wind Tunnel
- In Case You Missed It: Best Reads of the Week on Whining Conservatives, Internet Battles, Peru, The Single Life, and the Unborn
- What Do Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Che Guevera Have in Common?
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-07-31
- Bill Maher Takes On The Birthers
- The Superiority of Bloggers
- Obama and the Technocrats
- Krugman Summarizes the Health Care Problem
- Souter's Books
- Lies About Health Care Reform
- Did Kim Jong Il Apologize for Calling Hillary A "Funny Lady"?
- Military Envy
- An ebay for Health Insurance
- Censoring the Truth About the Crusader Prince?
- A Jumble of Health Care Related Points
- Stop Whining, Congressman Issa
- The Perks of Princes
- Theories of the Financial Crisis: Deference to the Financial Sector
- Ezra Klein: I would rather be drinking...
- Zeke Emanuel on the Health Insurance Exchange
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-08-07
- Gog et Magog, Hypomania in the White House, Reuters!, The Most Interesting Man in the World, and the NRLC
- The AARP Pushes Back Against What It Calls Crazy Rumors About Health Care Reform
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform
- Stopping the Democrats from Descending to Sarah Palin's Level
- Mild-Mannered Columnist Steven Pearlstein Gets Mad
- Right-Wing Editorial FAIL!
- Prominent Liberal Blogger: Obama acting exactly as if he does have a secret "death committee"!!!
- An Encroaching Technocracy
- Senator David Vitter Lies Again: Claims Health Reform Creating "Abortion Mandate" That Will Kill "Millions Upon Millions"
- Chuck Norris says "Obamacare" will result in "home intrusion" and socialist "indoctrination" of your children. So it must be true.
- Colbert: "The bill's a thousand pages! There's no way of know what's in it!"
- The Bankruptcy of Deficit Politics
- Ezra Klein's Mood Swings
- 4 Points on Health Care
- The Right-Wing Canard of 'Rationing' and Health Care Reform
- Right wingers, desperate to return to power, turn to the man they demonized, Saul Alinsky
- The Smearing of Ezekiel Emanuel
- The Smearing of Britain's National Health Service
- Mad Men, Catholic NYC, Ezra Klein, Social Security, Jon Stewart, Jared Diamond
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-08-14
- The Maddow-Coburn Debate on Meet the Press; and the Necessity of Violence
- They called Medicare and Social Security "tyranny" too.
- Fact-Checking Taibbi: The Sarah Palin of Journalism?
- Obama's Promise Was To Break the Hold the Idiocrats Have On Our Society
- The Caricature of Rahm Emanuel
- David Bauder Passes On Bernard Goldberg's Dubious Claim
- Health Care Lie #492*: A Government Takeover of 16% of the Economy
- The Selfishness of Reform's Opponents
- Tricking Us Into Real Health Care Reform
- The CIA Hired Blackwater to Help with Covert Killings
- Quote of the Day
- Weekly Must-Reads: Disappearing, the Super-Rich, Harry Potter, the Public Option, Craziness, and Abortion
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-08-21
- Shame on You, Mr. Hentoff
- Governor Rick Perry Lies to Voters As He Prepares for a National Race
- "Fixing" The National Conversation
- John McCain's Cowardly Politics
- Ted Kennedy: "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die..."
- Remembering Ted Kennedy: "He lived his own large life and the ledger of it shows a substantial positive balance."
- TownHall.com Considers Its Readers Gullible Idiots
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-08-28
- Yglesias: "Progressive politics at its best isn’t about bigger government but about attacking privilege and power."
- Health Care Lie #493: Rationing
- Andrew Sullivan: "American evangelicals are much more pro-torture in this respect than many Iranian Muslims"
- Health Care Lie #494: Health Insurance Companies and Their Allies Are Blocking Reform
- Are You A Libertarian If...
- A World Where 24 Is "Believable" and Orwell Is Misquoted
- Fighting Glenn Beck for a Better World
- Defending the Use of Reconciliation on Health Care
- A suggestion for Glenn Beck
- The Lessons of 1993/1994 (cont.)
- Glenn Beck: God Is An Atheist!
- Must-Reads of the Week: Krugman v. Ferguson, Ted Kennedy again, Hank Paulson, Sedaris, and Phreaking
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-09-04
- Blogging break..
- Shadow Government: TownHall.com warns of a scary Obama!
- A Health Care Plan More Impressive Than Perfection: Something That Might Pass
- Senator Grassley Talks Out Of Both Sides of His Mouth On Health Care Reform
- What We Forgot All Too Quickly
- Rep. Joe Wilson Tries To Turn His National Moment Into Fundraising Gold!
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-09-11
- A Week Off
- A Reactionary Politics Leads To Torture
- These Protests Aren't Against Big Government, But About Liberals Running the Government
- Protests Against Liberals Running the Gov't (cont.)
- Dana Perino's Misleading Spin Regarding Matt Latimer
- Obama’s Dangerous Hypocrisy on Prisoners at Guantánamo and Bagram
- The Senate Must Allow A Vote
- The Rift Torture Created Between the CIA and FBI Made America Less Safe
- The Bureaucracy of Al Qaeda
- Must Reads of the Past Two Weeks! (Extended Edition): J Street, NPH, Liberalism, Topless, Colombian Hippos, Grassroots, 1990s Reunion, Insuring Illegals, and the Iranian Time Bomb
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-09-18
- Funding Health Care Through A Millionaires' Tax or One on "Cadillac Plans" - Why Not Both?
- Reevaluating George W. Bush's Legacy
- That Annoying "Pox on Both Their Houses" Mentality of the "Independent-Minded" Press
- The Mayor's Filthy Salt Habit
- Stopping Rudy 2012 Before It Starts
- Big Project At Work
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-09-25
- Glenn Greenwald's Civil Libertarian Propaganda
- Former Bush Speechwriter Takes on the Internet: Its all about "bullying, conspiracy theories and racial prejudice"
- Our Health Care Systems Undermines Entrepreneurship
- Matthew Continetti on the Health Care Debate: A Nihilist's Defense of the Right Wing Hardline
- Our "Small Freedoms"
- Must-Reads: Uighurs, Gay in Middle School, Vidal, Larison, the Public Option, and the End of Pax Americana
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-10-02
- Maintaining the Fragile Right Wing Coalition
- Light Blogging
- The Virtue in Muddling Through in Afghanistan
- Reacting to Obama's Nobel Prize
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-10-09
- Must-Reads of Last Week: Data Warfare, Gay Rights, McCaughey, Summers, and Yankee Tickets
- An Empire or a Just Society?
- A Reorientation
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-10-16
- Hillary Mis-Speaks Again!!!
- The Fallacies of Mukasey
- Former Bush Attorney General: American Justice System Led to September 11
- The most conservative senator is liberal favorite Olympia Snowe
- Mining Right Wing Critiques for Some Honesty
- What Do the Taliban, Hannah Montana, and the Beatles Have in Common?
- Why Do Republicans Oppose Net Neutrality?
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-10-23
- The New Obama Paradox
- Karzai gave in because he knew Obama was serious while Bush had not been
- McCaffrey Caught In Another Lie
- AT&T: An Unlikely Opponent of Government Regulation
- A Vote To Debate Health Care Is A Vote for Democracy
- Lieberman Ready To "Stick the Knife" In Health Care Reform
- The Escalating War Over Judicial Appointments
- Net Neutrality Is What Made the Internet a Libertarian Utopia
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-10-30
- Rothkopfian Aphorisms
- What Would Republican Health Care Reform Look Like?
- The Political Analysis of Laughter
- Limbaugh claims Obama is a radical leftist because he supports programs Republicans proposed a generation ago.
- Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-11-06
- The Constantly Invoked Hitler-Chamberlain-Churchill Fallacy
- Nancy Pelosi's Essential Leadership
- America's Schizophrenic Abortion Politics
- The Curdling of American Politics
- Health Care Reform and Its Unintended Consequences
- Fisking Camille Paglia
- Remembering Those Who Were Killed While the Pundits Glorify the Gunman
- The perfect encapsulation of the liberal attacks on George W. Bush
- Chinese Racism, Andrew Ross Sorkin's Power, Andrew Sullivan's Catholicism, America's Decline (?), and Megan Fox's Savvy Self-Creation
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-11-13
- Deconstructing the Right Wing Appropriation of the Term "Appeasement"
- 2parse.com Presents Exclusive Pictures of Obama Bowing to More Anti-American Groups
- Health Care Reform is the most significant effort at cost control in a generation, if not ever.
- The Emotional Logic of Trying KSM in Federal Court
- That's What You Get For Trusting a WSJ Editorial
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-11-20
- NBC's Dr. Nancy Defends Doctors in Breast Cancer Debate: "We are on the verge of becoming a scientifically illiterate country"
- Dueling Op-Eds
- Playing BrickBreaker While the Financial System Burned
- The Un-American Pledge, Nietzsche (Republican), Islamists, Anti-Statism, Health Care Reform (again), and Abortion Politics
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-11-27
- National Review: "Soak the Rich!"
- And it was said that bloggers shall inherit the earth.
- "Hardly Churchillian."
- The Republican's Generational Warfare
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-12-04
- A Unified Theory of Obama
- Political Number Games
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Introduction
- The NYT and WaPo bet their reputations on contrasting approaches to climate emails.
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Republicans
- TownHall.com Still Thinks Its Readers Are Idiots...
- Global Warming: A conspiracy perpetuated by the sushi-eating, coastal elites known as polar bears.
- Kashkari, 2009's Ideas, Richard Milhouse Obama, Frum!, Chinese-American Trade Imbalance, Obama's Nobel, and Charborg
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-12-11
- No posts today.
- No one asked Chris Brown why he beat Rihanna. Why then do we blame Tiger Woods?
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Democrats
- The Left's Odd Abandoment of Obama: Glenn Greenwald
- Harry Reid's Heroism
- You don't have to be happy about supporting this bill. But you should support it.
- Krauthammer's Newest Big Lie
- The Left's Odd Abandoment of Obama: Matt Taibbi
- Glenn Greenwald and the Politics of Ressentiment
- Paul Krugman Attempts to Fill Ted Kennedy's Shoes
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-12-18
- Obama's Dramatic Showdown Leads to Climate Deal
- Ezra Klein: Health Care Blogger Extraordinare
- Today in Health Care
- Greenwald Jumps the Shark?
- Merry Christmas from 2parse
- Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-12-25
- Rothkopfian Aphorisms (cont.)
- Robert P. George's Perversions of Natural Law
- The Best Proven Defense Against Terrorism
- Geithner on the Political Bind the Obama Administration Faces
- A Failure of Skepticism on Reddit
- Obama's Grass-Roots Machine
- Rooting for a Fiscal Catastrophe
- Christopher Hitchens Speaking Uncomfortable Truths
- Get It Through Your Heads: No President Can Keep You Safe
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- Chris Rock on Hillary: "I think America is ready for a woman president, but does it have to be that woman?"
- Tomorrow's Day 1
- Hillary Clinton - does she think no one is paying attention?
- The definitive guide to the January 3, 2008 Iowa Democratic Party Caucuses
- "Only idiots signed up. Only idiots died."
- Obama and the Progressive Netroots
- I love reddit, but some source-checking would do wonders.
- Obama! Ya gotta believe...
- Just like I imagined it when I was talking to my Kindergarten teacher...
- The Petty Paul (Krugman)
- I Heart John Edwards
- John Edwards defends Obama, rhetorically bitch slaps Clinton
- Against deep odds and great cynicism I will ask you to believe...
- If you get the girl up on her tiptoes, you should kiss her...
- Running out of ballots
- The Morning After
- Real change should be hard
- Bush Democrats for Hillary!
- A Dream Deeply Rooted in the American Dream
- The Laziness and Gullibility of the American People
- The Laziness and Gullibility of the American People, Part II
- Fox News v. Obama
- What bothers me about Hillary
- People Who Play the Game
- Before we came here, we thought of ourselves as good people.
- GOP Cheerleader #1!
- Bill and Hillary: You're no LBJ
- Hillary Clinton lies about Obama
- Erica Jong endorses Hillary
- A summary of the "Hillary hacked NH" story
- David Brooks: Bush Administration Thinks Hillary Will Protect Their Legacy
- Be honest.
- Born of pain
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Withdraw From the Race Today
- Is this man telling you the truth?
- Only If We Become a Great People
- A Ship In Need of Repairs
- Celebrating the glorious moments of human failure
- The Paradox of Barack Obama
- The New York Times Endorses Hillary Clinton
- Unproductive, Distasteful Mudslinging
- Mike Huckabee and AdWords
- And Obama wins big.
- Shades of Grey
- Sooner Than You Think
- My Hillary Story
- Slowly standing up
- Dawn in South Carolina
- An Historical Footnote: Eisenhower's Baptism
- The process of change and changing the process
- The Visionary Minimalist
- The next time...
- A collective failure
- Senator, you always do us right. This time, you did us proud.
- Yes. We. Can.
- Some mythical, white-faced, blank-featured creature of the night
- "Openly opposing torture"
- Time Freezes in Grand Central
- Fair-minded words
- The Case for Barack Obama
- Real change is still hard.
- $5.01 Barack Obama "Money Bomb" Set for February 12th
- Conversations on a train
- Songerize
- The Reactive Executive
- A Sure Losing Strategy
- Like Hope, But Different
- $5.01: The Price of Change
- The Obamas' Student Loans
- 80 NYC Election Districts
- Foreclosures Available
- Just words?
- Conan's Greatest Guest Moments
- One Pakistan Story
- Scooter Libby Justice
- Lawrence Lessig for Congress
- How does Chechyna love thee?
- We don’t do stuff like that very often.
- My opponent gives speeches.
- Delayed Results
- The Rebranding of America: Barack Obama
- The two sides of John McCain
- Ready from Day 1
- The Esoteric Poetry of Science
- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
- Bloomberg calls it 'fraud'
- No comment.
- I Don't Like Waterboarding
- Where Was this Fierce Clinton Then?
- How not to lose
- Imagine Vladmir Putin...
- Why the Press Loves McCain
- Hillary Clinton and the Duck
- Grace, Honor, and Comic Timing...
- Turn the page..
- Farrakhan: The Hope of the Entire World
- Hope Changes Everything
- Obama messed up my "game"
- The Press and Ms. Clinton
- Experience in history
- Gandhi's Virgins (and McCain's lobbyists)
- Playing politics
- Refusing to buy into the Obama hype
- Charisma and the Cult of Personality
- McCain and 'the Bad Guys'
- Idealism in the service of realism
- Trial lawyers and telecom immunity
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Stay in the Race
- Transformational politics
- Renegade and Romantic
- Not a revolution
- A telling comment...
- Random fact of the day...
- The political tide
- Local color
- If you injected Obama with sodium penathol...
- The difference between a presidential candidate and a fool in love...
- The Funniest Analogies (Collected by H.S. English teachers)
- A narrow market share
- Einstein's Religiousity
- The Governors' Meeting
- The Coming Financial Pandemic
- Klansmen for Obama
- The Obamanauts
- How Barack Obama inspired the West Wing Finale
- Pathological idiocy: Mark Steyn
- Trial lawyers want to protect your civil liberties!
- Passive support for al-Qaeda
- How Hillary's Think Tank Went for Obama
- The Jihad Bunny
- "Nonesense on Stilts"
- Soft on crime
- A Card-Carrying Civil Libertarian
- Oddly appropriate over-the-top praise
- Torture, law-breaking, and the American way
- Linda Chavez's unhinged "patriotism"
- Awkwardly phrased spin
- These doomy, gloomy, over-psychologized, terminally ironic, post-humanist, post-postmodern times
- A short history of "Whoops!"
- Public groundswells
- The New York Times Endorsement
- Geldof and Bush
- How to Spin the Press
- Gray's Papaya for Obama!!
- Too many exceptions to the rule
- Quote of the Day
- A thoughtful Catholic
- Hope Wins the Night
- Man, there's a country where they have great tactics to prevent suicide bombings
- A Hypothetical Question of Judgment
- Quote of the Day
- Old guy singing...about Barack Obama
- Introducing a new feature: "Excerpts from my Journals"
- Don't you sell America to me.
- Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. and Trinity United Church of Christ
- Political cartoons
- Clinton and the Mummy
- Eliot Spitzer: Client #9?
- Steve King: Obama will be a savior to Al Qaeda
- Reflections on Writing
- Top McCain aide: Thanks for softening Obama up for us.
- "Cynicism"
- Suspicious activities...
- Mock-forbidden
- The race card and Ferraro
- Fuck Hillary's Big Money Pals
- Wikipedian recognition
- The Prosecution of Governor Siegelman
- Well-crafted lies
- Happy St. Patrick's Day...
- Friday Night Specials
- Brevity
- God Damn the United States
- A More Perfect Union
- An Historical Change of Course
- More peril than we are willing to admit
- Is Joe Lieberman acting as a "stealth Democrat"?
- What it means to be a politician
- The Good Friday Interview
- Lopate v. Jacoby on Vaccination
- Republican Party to Ron Paul Supporters: Get lost!
- Idealizing ourselves while demonizing others
- An emotional calculus
- September 11
- The growing chorus
- Senator McCain and Senator Bradley
- Obamusic
- Rich dumb kids
- A man and a woman
- Uptight squares whose bag is money and world domination
- Duck-and-cover
- The Obama Girl Effect
- Favorite "Swear" Words
- Religion, sexuality, and mystery
- A Guy Can Only Be Called "Annie" So Many Times...
- A harsh judgment
- An apology
- Fighting the Advil menace, one strip search at a time
- Ed Markey's Avatar
- Edwards: Santa Claus & Easter Bunny More Plausible Than Hillary as the Agent of Change
- Andrew Sullivan nails it.
- And Obama wants to be President??????
- The 2008 New York Mets
- Raban's Reflections on Obama
- The Logic of Hillary '08
- Maybe that challenge doesn't look so bad for Mr. Obama after all.
- Imagineering!
- A Three Year Old Endorses Obama
- Yoo are too Clever by a Half
- Chris Matthews: Entertaining Bloviation
- Go Fox Yourself!
- Shin Bet Refuses to Assist in Providing Security to President Carter
- Bitter?
- Mother A Crip, Father A Westside Baller
- On "Bitter"
- Secret Muslims
- There is no Obama in Italy
- Hillary's great favor
- The McLovin' Fund
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Betting on the American People
- 1928
- Following Up "The Paradox of Barack Obama"
- The Shockingly Widespread Sense
- Hillary running to be president...of 9/11
- Hillary: Stay in this Race!
- Nostalgia for the Bush administration
- Pope Endorses Barack Obama in UN Speech
- Waiting on Pennsylvania
- Too Close to Call...
- Not Too Close To Call After All...
- The Price You Pay to Lead
- Al-Zawahri Zawahri speaks
- The Urgency of Our Problems as a Nation
- Middle East Mayhem
- A Creative Restraining Order
- The Recommended Caffeine Intake for a French Enlightenment Philosopher
- Too Much Like a GQ Cover?
- The Power of Story: 9/11 and the Averted Attack
- Killing the United Nations
- Mourning Sharky
- Chaffee on Bush
- Hillary's No "Pansy"
- A Moderate Reputation: Explaining McCain's Changes of Heart
- Why Not to Wear a Tie Around John McCain
- Ambinder: Superdelegates believe in witchcraft?
- Gas Tax Politics
- A difference in philosophy: Obama v. Clinton on gays
- 'DC Madam' Dead in 'Suicide'
- What Obama is doing on May 30th
- A "Granita Pact"
- Back...
- We Now Know Who the Nominee Will Be
- Some quick things...
- Did John Edwards Slip and Reveal Who He Is Going to...
- A great idea for a house
- When Obama wins...
- Gaming the System
- Hillary's Qualifications
- If we hired like we vote...
- Where did the real Glenn Greenwald Go?
- Confronting the architects of war
- John McCain is so old...
- Obama explains Hamas's "endorsement"
- The moment Obama did not create
- Generation Faithful
- The curmudgeonly conservative columnist questions McCain
- The utility of principles
- Headline news
- McCain: Puppies for everyone!
- Darkness at Noon
- Betting on the Laziness of Americans, Part III
- Process Revolutions
- Ted Kennedy's Cancer
- Lieberman's selective indignation
- The Ron Paul Revolution
- Obama-Clinton?
- Obama will stand with the Muslims
- Clinton inciting an "open civil war"
- 7 Reasons Why Hillary Should Not Be the VP
- The two most powerful narratives in American history
- Veepstakes
- Why Men Have Better Friends...
- Noonan on sexism
- Will Ferrell's Fashionable Patriotism
- Dunkin Donuts: The Coffee of Jihadists
- It's all Condi' fault
- Some perspective on how crazy Americans are...
- Evaluating McCain's 'realistic idealism'
- Questions about McCain's Foreign Policy
- Obama-Webb 08
- The Spirit that Animated the American Experiment
- Noah, Grandpa Dragon, and the King of the Beasts
- The Kitchen Sink
- The Last Plausible Woman Candidate
- "Never really interested in judges"
- Bush's Counterterrorism Strategy: Winning Through Losing
- The ultimate feelgood war
- The Liberation of a Murderer
- The Weekly Standard Jumps the Shark
- On To November
- Shameless
- The American Moment
- Obama versus McCain on Iraq
- 8 Reasons Why Hillary Should Not Be VP
- Digg Lies!
- The Message from Hillary
- Kinky details enclosed...
- The Saddest Picture...
- The Spectacular Failure of Hillary Clinton
- Some of the best scenes from The Office
- Bloggers Track Down "Michelle Obama 'Whitey' Tape"
- The Drudge Primary
- Obama is our excuse
- America: Kind of Like Spider-man
- Hayden on Obama: I didn't see him coming.
- Contempt, high-minded, and glamorous
- The Sale of an American Landmark: The Chrysler Building
- A Neo-Empire in the Middle East
- Don't Hold the Democratic Party Hostage!
- Quote of the Day
- Gay Google-ing
- A Sign of the Times
- Cindy McCain's Country Club Patriotism
- Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense
- What to do when your fiance's sister hits on you...
- Patriotism as a Weapon
- If that's what you believe, Mr. McCain, you'll have to draft me.
- Rest in Peace, George Carlin
- Bush to Attack Iran as an October Surprise?
- Ralph Nader, Racist
- Nuptial overindulgence
- A blog vacation
- Re-Introducing 2parse.com and Debating "Fast Eddie Obama"
- A Night With Chuck Hagel
- The Opinionsphere Looks Under the Bus
- Krugman throws a tantrum
- Obama's critics
- A Warning from Secretary Gates: "Our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America" if we strike Iran.
- One of Rush Limbaugh's sentences
- The Last Hillary 2008 Supporters: A Journey Into the Surreal World of the PUMAs
- Quote of the Day
- Iraq insists on withdrawal timetable
- Larry Johnson's Hit Job on Hillary Clinton
- America's Inherent Fragility
- Why I Am Still Supporting Barack Obama After His Vote For Telecom Immunity
- Berlin Loves Obama
- The Military Chooses Obama
- Barack Obama, FISA, and Telecom Immunity
- Why Obama's FISA Vote Shouldn't Disillusion You
- Giuliani Doesn't Get It
- Manhattanhenge
- Why Bush's Blunders are Derailing Plans for Thatcher's Funeral
- My Obama-themed Wallpaper
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Socialism for the Rich
- Obama and McCain: The Younger Years
- Faux outrageous: The New Yorker's Political Cover
- How I Roll...
- A New Pro-Cindy McCain Obama Smear Email
- A Liberal Defends George W. Bush's Legacy
- Jon Stewart Defends the New Yorker
- Obama releases list of approved jokes.
- The Housing Price Roller Coaster
- The 188-Minute Workout
- Osama Outraged at Magazine Cover
- Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plans
- And they were worried about Mitt Romney...
- Setting America Up to Fail
- Omar al-Bashir kills a dove
- A World That Stands As One
- Explaining Away McCain's Foreign Policy Gaffes
- The amusing town of Dildo, Newfoundland
- Quote of the Day
- Obama World Tour Round-up
- Oliver Stone's "W" Trailer
- Kids Make the Darndnest Hand Gestures
- An insight about blogging
- The slippery slope
- Quote of the Day
- Googling to a better life
- Quasi-Defending the Windfall Profits Tax
- Quote of the Day
- The Story of a Sign
- It's Friday!
- Fake It 'til You Make It
- Beware of "Fiscal Conservatives"
- Casting Stones
- A President for Our Dangerous Times
- Stephen Colbert Wants You!
- The Battle Over Whether Net Neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet
- Quote of the Day
- Do you support Bush today more than you did four years ago?
- 'The Fairness Doctrine for the Internet' is a Conservative Strawman
- Jerome Corsi, Author of Obama Nation, Is an Anti-Catholic Bigot
- The PUMAs and Jerome Corsi
- xkcd v. Diebold
- A Timeline of the Russian-Georgian War
- Defying Common Sense Since 2001
- Why I Support Obama
- A Card to Send to Those You Love
- The Cross in the Sand
- Obama Tells You Why You Shouldn't Be Disillusioned Because of His FISA Vote
- Mr. 20%
- Why I Am Still Confident About Obama's Campaign
- A very young Michael Phelps
- Another Third Party Candidate for President
- Barack Obama's New Ad is Unfair
- Holding a Grudge Against the Bank of America (Part 1)
- Choosing a Vice President
- Reconciling With Hillary
- A Page from Nixon's Playbook
- A Hillary or A Gore
- It's Joe Biden
- I hope that you forget about your MySpace...
- Change Before It’s Too Late
- Quote of the Day
- The Qualities Needed To Succeed
- Should. Could. Would.
- Dubya Made Obama Possible
- Obamanomics
- Where's Joe Biden When You Need Him?
- Quote of the Day
- Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
- Quote of the Day
- The Intersection of Rich, Out-of-Touch, and Old
- Conservatives Dodge the Abortion Question
- "A Clear and Present Danger to the Security of the West"
- Dukakis: "I owe the American people an apology."
- Bill
- Mixing Theology and Politics
- McCain Throws an Elbow
- Yet Another Blatant Power Grab By the Obamas
- The POW Card
- That Better Place Around the Bend
- Obama, the Lion King
- Bush-McCain Refuses to Make Tough Foreign Policy Choices
- VPILF Palin
- The Single (Compound) Sentence That Describes Why I Support Obama
- She was born with ovaries! I was born with ovaries!
- The Crimes Behind Cindy McCain's Fortune
- Cats are Deceitful: The Sequel
- Vision versus Compromise
- Unhinged
- The Stages of Rumordom
- Frak!
- Palin's Speech
- How the Media Created Independents
- I Got Almost as Many Votes as Palin When I Was in College
- Chastizing the Media
-
4 More Years! - 11 Reasons to Donate to Barack Obama Tonight
- McCain's Speech
- The Complicated Business of Judging Sarah Palin
- Google Maps Mistake
- Lies About Obama's Tax Plans
- McCain Ad Echoes Smear Emails
- Selling Tom Friedman
- Obama v. McCain on Health Care
- Jesse Ventura vs. The Black Swan
- Will Bin Laden Endorse McCain?
- "We are all Georgians!": Fantasy as Foreign Policy
- A Country Unlike Any Other
- Now Is the Time to Give...
- Inviting America to Attack John McCain's Character
- McCain: Insulting the Voters' Intelligence
- Grandstanding McCain: Despite Fine Words, He Refused to Act on Torture
- The Lesson We Did Not Learn from 9/11
- McCain Bipartisanship vs. Obama Bipartisanship
- Brooks and Krugman on the State of the Campaign
- Obama: Everyone chill the f*** out, I got this.
- The Palin-Clinton Press Conference on Sexism - Live from New York on Saturday Night
- Neoconservatives, gleeful, see Palin as "a blank page"
- McCain: Without Honor
- Thanking the Jawa Report
- A Pro-Obama, Anti-McCain Email
- Did Obama violate the Logan Act?
- A year ago today...
- Breaking Through the Fog: Barack Obama's Plan
- The Difference Between McCain's Bi-Partisanship and Obama's Post-Partisanship
- Calm Down!
- Confronting Another Architect of War
- McCain v. Spain
- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog interviews Ralph Nader
- SNL Skewers McCain
- Bartlet's Advice
- Fun Fact About McCain #1: Panicking in a Crisis
- The Price of Panic
- Fun Fact About McCain #2: Attacking The Character of His Opponents
- Fun Fact About McCain #3: Temper Tantrum in Nicaragua
- Yglesias: Bush pressured Maliki to revise the withdrawl date to bail out McCain
- Urgent Help Needed
- Fun Fact About McCain #4: Smears
- Fun Fact About McCain #5: Bad Blood with Hillary?
- Fun Fact About McCain #6: Deregulation
- Fun Fact About McCain #7: McCain Will Destroy the Internet as We Know It
- Off the Deep End
- David Letterman takes on McCain
- SmearedbytheTruth
- Like a Ricky Gervais sketch
- Fun Fact About John McCain #8: Not About Issues
- Fun Facts About John McCain #9: Phil Gramm
- Fun Fact About John McCain #10: A Third Bush Term
- Fun Fact About John McCain #11: Fiscal Irresponsibility
- "You were wrong."
- Fun Fact About John McCain #12: He Wants to Tax Your Health Care Benefits
- A brighter day will come
- Ideology Above Country
- "A Partisan Speech" by Pelosi
- John McCain: Gambling With Our Futures
- A Wink and a Wagging Finger
- Yesterday's American Heroes, Not Tomorrow's Leaders
- A Prophecy in the Guardian
- David Brooks's Brand Loyalty
- Optimistic v. Pessimistic Views of the Financial Crisis
- Paul Begala on The Colbert Report
- The Poetry of Sarah Palin
- An Obvious Omen
- Lies About Obama #1: A Closet [insert far-left group here]
- The Vice Presidential Debate
- A Warning to John McCain
- Something About Karma
- The Wrong Lessons, The Wrong Leader
- Watch Wal-Mart Grow
- 11 Things I Learned While Trying to Figure Out the Financial Crisis
- A Sarah-gogue
- Quote of the Day
- Old Men Are Dangerous
- Moose for Obama
- You Stole Our Obama Sign
- McCain in a Plane over Spain
- Give McCain a Break
- Palin as President
- The Animal Kingdom Endorses Obama
- Barack Obama Is Not a Socialist!
- WWSPD - What Would Sarah Palin Do?
- Leave It To Beaver Socialism
- Al Qaeda v. Barack Obama
- Mourning McCain
- John McCain, Neoconservative
- Pro-Marriages Forces Against Gay Marriage
- A Megaphone to a Demagogue
- Anti-climax of the Lehman Brothers Credit Default Swap Scare
- A Bitter Interview
- A Chart of the Lehman Mess
- Too Big to Fail
- Deficiencies of Judgment
- OMF - G20
- Drudge's Bold Red Headlines
- Jumping Ship: McCain Team Fights Over Blame
- The Failure of Free Market Ideology
- Palin 2012
- Hoax!
- The Blame Game
- Hitler took on the special interests too
- Quote of the Day
- John McCain's America
- The Art of Character Sketches
- The Collapse of the Republican Consensus
- The World Is Blowing Up. We Can't Be One-Issue Voters Today.
- The Promise Versus the Proposals of Obama
- Unintended Consequences
- The Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity
- Fuming Over Their Own Confusions
- The Legitimacy of the State
- What Al Qaeda Really Fears
- Jindal 2012
- Those Republican Leftists!
- Fascinating Fact of the Day
- Socialism, huh?
- Bad Math
- Alaskans for Obama
- Dreher's Vaticination
- Happy Halloween
- Wanna See Something Really Scary?
- Quote of the Day
- You don't need to boo, you just need to vote...
- Drudge Jumps the Shark
- In the Shadow of September 11 and the War on Terrorism
- A Skeptic's Case For Barack Obama
- A Skinny Kid With a Funny Name
- FDR's and Obama's Prayer
- What's Next?
- Appalachia
- Quotes Summarizing the Past 8 Years
- Lincoln's Memory
- What's Next: The Court
- Jindal 2012 (cont.)
- Krugman's Hope: Franklin Delano Obama
- Which Emanuel Brother Are You?
- Words of Advice from an Illinois Politician
- Obama & Trade
- Self-Referential Social Bookmarking Blogging
- The Surge that Took Down the Red Cross
- The Scowcroft Conspiracy
- Jindal 2012 or 2016 (cont.)
- Your Excuse for Doing Less Than You Could
- Reclaiming America
- Are We Entering Another Great Depression?
- What's Next: Secretaries of State and Defense
- Lieberman
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Secretary of State
- The Downfall of the Conservative Intellectual
- A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
- Adam Reilly Argues Against the Fairness Doctine
- Lincoln's Advice on the Detroit Bailout
- The Worst Excuse
- The Magic of Dish-Washing
- Bipartisan Corruption
- The Anatomy of an Obama Revolution
- Bringing Back the Fairness Doctrine
- Political Catholicism and the Obama Apocalpyse
- The Best Designed Site on the Web
- Subtle Connections and Far-reaching Implications
- Quote of the Day
- Jindal's Health Care Reform
- New Bond Girl to be Named Chesty Evildoer
- The Manufactured Fairness Doctrine Controversy
- Jonah Goldberg is Shocked
- To maintain independence, eat Chipotle at your desk
- Blog down
- Honoring William F. Buckley Jr.
- Health Care's Place in Obamanomics
- Nuclear versus Wind
- Why do we care about international standards?
- How the Media and the Politicians Failed to Understand the Detroit Bailout
- The American People, Properly Informed
- The Public Purpose of Bailouts
- Who's Paying to Promote RFK, Jr. for Senate?
- The Kingdom of Google
- Who’s Paying to Promote RFK, Jr. for Senate? (cont.)
- Jindal 2012 (cont.)
- Drew-bait
- Post-Presidential Adventures
- Santa's Email
- Jon Stewart for Senate
- The Glaring Idiocy of Political Reporters
- A sex symbol for every man who reads without moving his lips
- A Cartoon Rejoinder
- Whiplash Markets
- Fear in the GOP Caucus
- Profane Fun With History
- The Detroit Investment Group
- The Serendipitousness Effect
- Middle-Class Murmers
- The Biggest Decision Obama Will Make
- The Generation That Sucked
- Don (George) Will Tilts At Imaginary Liberals
- Discretionary Spending
- Liberty is Not Another Word for Anti-Antiterrorism
- Army of the Pure
- Like Small Children
- Discretionary Spending (cont.)
- In Defense of Indiscretion
- The Blagojevich Scandal
- Technology Aided Terrorists
- A Status Contest With a Twist
- Does Torture Work?
- Caroline Kennedy
- Carrie Fischer, Cary Grant, and LSD
- Obama Throws a Snowball
- Signs We're Back in the 1950s
- Dripping With Contempt
- A Defense of Indiscretion (cont.)
- Law as a Guide Rather than an Obstacle in National Security
- Only we can throw shoes at our president
- David Gregory: Goofily Hollow
- Beer in Zimbabwe
- Can We Blame the Shoe-Thrower?
- The Judgment of History
- An Ambitious Presidency
- Caroline Kennedy (cont.)
- Caroline Kennedy (cont. again)
- Whoops...
- Illegal Drugs and the War on Terror
- Discretionary Spending (cont.)
- The Proper Proportion of the Finance Sector to the Real Economy
- These Enemies of Civilization
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe From Terrorism
- Opposing Pete King for NY Senate
- Siemens
- Bleeping William Kristol
- The Twin Radical 20th Century American Revolutions
- The Source of Authority
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe From Terrorism (cont.)
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Distractions
- Psychoanalyzing Glenn Greenwald
- I think he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences.
- The State of Your Desk
- A Numerical Summary of the Bush Administration
- Hypocrisy or Unknown Principles
- Irony Watch
- Only in Illinois
- Stuck on the Terrorist Watch List
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- She was promised a Toy Yoda…
- Clever Terrorist, or Forgetful Schmuck?
- What a President Needs…
- Obama Gets Iowa Dem’s Endorsement
- “Senior White House Official” on Obama
- Firefox v. Opera v. Internet Explorer
- That Biden Touch
- “Fired Up. Ready to Go.”
- Ahmadinejad
- How the Clintons Relax
- Rationalizing inhumanity
- The Choice
- Two Methods of Interrogation
- The Candidates
- A true parable
- Pakistani Power Politics
- It's all about strategy
- Columbus Day
- Under the Weather..
- Fight For Kisses.
- The Next JFK?
- Why I Am Confident About Obama - Or a Roundup of Recent Election 2008 News
- Pragmatic, Principled, Obama
- Happy Birthday Lenny Bruce
- George Dubya...in a speedo
- Al Hunt and Barack Obama
- The Screensaver
- The Failure of Al Gore: A Defense of a Good Man
- Worth Reading
- Terrorist Attack on Bhutto
- Giuliani on the Set of Cabaret
- Why can't Democrats take on religious hypocrisy like this
- Cats are deceitful. . .
- A Libertarian Perspective on Clinton
- When the internet is interesting...
- McCain's Health Care Plan
- The Sublime Truthiness of Stephen Colbert
- "We didn't start the fire..."
- "Judgment we can trust. Barack Obama. President."
- The Worst Swearword
- Roundup
- Barack Obama on Iraq
- The Politician's Achilles Heel: Baseball and Presidential Candidates
- Worth Mulling Over
- Socrates on the Train
- "Throwing a few elbows..."
- "Tessie"
- Making everything better: 99 Luftballoons
- "I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's really rooting for..."
- The Cuddle Mattress
- A thoughtful hit piece
- The Evangelical Crackup
- As the race tightens...
- A bit of controversy at my alma mater
- Cheerleader Injuries
- R.I.P. Goulet
- Live-blogging the MSNBC Debate...
- A First Lady I'd Like To ....
- The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared Diamond
- Happy Halloween...
- David Brooks gets it right for once...
- The Beginning of the End of Hillary 2008
- Graphics of Election 2008 Polls
- "Never get busted..."
- "No Panicking in Obama-Land"
- Who knew the Iraqi insurgency was so status-conscious?
- Quote of the Day
- Yet Another Reason Agricultural Subsidies Hurt Us
- Barack Obama Reflecting on the Desire to Be President
- Obama on Iran
- What Rights Should We Give Terrorists?
- "Hillary can handle the men just fine. What's giving her problems is Hillary."
- "September 12 happened one day after September 11..."
- A Baby Jumps...
- Pictures that make you think...
- Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama
- Holy Cross - Fordham
- The View from The Office
- "I cannot allow this country to commit suicide."
- Michael Scott's Unrequited Love
- Quote of the Day
- Absolutely Hilarious, but NSFW
- Saturday Night
- Obama v. Giuliani
- Geraldine Ferraro attempting to defend Hillary
- John Laughland, loon
- Dead Certain
- "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
- The Real Obama
- The meaning of is is
- The Post 9/11 Generation
- The Renaissance and the efficacy of torture
- In Honor of Those Who Serve and Sacrifice
- The girl with the flower in her hair on the subway
- "The fierce urgency of now" and Barack Obama
- Drudge Headline: "WOLF WARNED: NO GANGING UP ON HILLARY IN VEGAS!"
- The Reappearance of Monica Lewinsky
- Islamist Terrorism as "a generational phenomenon"
- Eschewing politics
- Vince Flynn & The Preemptive Surrender of American Values
- And I am Caesar.
- Tom Friedman, Car Salesman
- Did our foreign policy cause 9/11?
- Staving off disaster in Pakistan
- Top 10 Pranks on Dwight from "The Office"
- Awesome.
- The Historical Obama
- Mister 9/11
- Experience : Judgment :: Clinton : Obama (or Paul or Kucinich)
- A Wedding to Remember
- A Defense of Compromise and the American Experiment
- lib•er•tar•ian: Two roads diverged in a wood...
- The Disengagement with Power
- Does winning the Supreme Court galvanize social movements?
- How Kucinich Found Love
- Our Lady of the Law
- Overrated Much?
- The Iraq Thing
- Operation Lucky Bag, Part II
- Some fun stuff
- Obama meeting with Mayor Bloomberg?
- Chris Rock: “You’d be real embarrassed” if Obama Won and You Supported “That White Lady”
- With good judgment, little else matters. Without it, nothing else matters.
- Sex on the City
- Phone Sex
- Tim Meadows explains why pot is bad for you
- Two articles to mull over
- Giuliani: There is something deranged about you...
- Hillary v. Barack, Third Grade Edition
- It is not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me...
- The moment is now...
- Why I write this blog
- The libertarian liberal
- The morons die with our respect.
- Why I cannot support Ron Paul
- Flexibility as a principle
- Huckabee v. Obama
- Wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross
- It Can't Happen Here
- Frank Rich v. Paul Krugman
- The Life and Death of Benazir Bhutto
- Edwards v. Obama: The closing arguments
- To be partisan
- The coverup of Benazir Bhutto's death