Criticism
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- In Response To Those Disturbed By Celebrating on the Death of Bin Laden
- Bloomberg: How To Use Immigration Policy to Save Detroit
- AT&T Is Asking Us To Trust Them
- Capitalism in Practice
- Campbell's Law
- The Sheeple of r/libertarian
- Protesters Bring Missiles to Ground Zero
- The Victimhood Complex of the Right-Wing
- Must-Reads of the Week: The IRA, Journalism, Unsavory Profits, Bipartisanship, and the Tyranny of New York
- Some brief thoughts on Rand Paul
- An Epidemic of Not Watching
- How Lawless and Increasingly Violent is the Arizona-Mexico Border? Not Very.
- 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
- Right Wing Christians Against Net Neutrality Want To Censor Your Internet
- Rooting for a Fiscal Catastrophe (cont.)
- 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
- Connecting the Dots on Epistemic Closure
- 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
- Chait v. Seib: "Seib, like Jeffrey Dahmer, is an imperfect human being."
- Greenwald v. Larison & Douthat
- 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
- How Not To Prove Someone Is Not a Racist
- Wall Street's enormous profits are evidence of a poorly functioning market.
- How To Identify a Member of the Tea Party
- Must-Reads of the Week: Diabolical Republicans, Strategic Patience, Weiner, China, New York City, -20 Questions, & Glenn Beck's Obsession With Woodrow Wilson
- Republicans have an absolutely brilliant strategy on financial reform. Too bad it's evil.
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement.
- Supply-side Theology
- Must-Reads of the Week: Nukes, Inconsistencies, Graphing the Economic Crisis, Half-Hookers, Palin 2012, Mailer's Wife, & Complex Business Models
- Government Is Good!
- TownHall.com Promotes Google Takeover of Bloggerwave Fantasy
- Dammit, Reddit! You know I sorta love you, but sometimes...
- Evaluating Mitt Romney's 2012 Candidacy
- Senator Lindsey Graham: Fiscal Chickenhawk
- Brent Bozell Deliberately Misleads His Readers!
- Which Party Is More Wingnutty?
- 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!
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform (cont.)
- Copyright and the White House Photostream
- Thumbnail Sketches of Democrats and Republicans
- Obama's Self-Interest Lies With the American People's; the Republican Party's Self-Interest Does Not.
- The Unhinged Anger on the Right Leads to An Ill-Advised and Unhedged Bet Against Reform.
- Must-Reads of the Week: China's distortionary exchange rate policy, Mario Savio, David Brooks, Ezra Klein, & Dana Priest's The Mission
- 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
- Does the real Krauthammer believe Obama is trying to destroy America or not?
- 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
- Obama's pragmatic ambitions
- Wieseltier owes Andrew Sullivan an apology. And The New Republic owes its readers a retraction.
- The Hypocrisy of Hoekstra
- How the Media Undermines Civility
- "To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature."
- Let's keep all that talk of a failed first year in office to a minimum.
- Obama: "I do not accept second place for the United States of America"
- Obama: You're Calling Me a 'Bolshevik' for Using Republican Ideas for Democratic Ends
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama (mythical figure), Democratic Talking Points, Health Care Misinformation & Defenses of Reform, & Musical Predictions
- Defending Obama's First Year in Office
- Story-Teller-In-Chief
- Obama versus Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism
- Worrying About Downside Risk
- The Economist's Podcast Entitled "The Democrats lose Massachusetts" Is "an insult to people's intelligence."
- Draw Your Own Conclusions
- The Continued Failure of Right Wing Social Engineering
- John Yoo's Scandalous Affair With George W. Bush!
- What passes for journalism today is faux-outrage presented without any perspective.
- In Praise of Tinkering: Health Care Reform
- Victor Davis Hanson's "Productive Classes"
- "The past should stay in the heart, where it belongs."
- Get It Through Your Heads: No President Can Keep You Safe
- A Failure of Skepticism on Reddit
- The Best Proven Defense Against Terrorism
- Today in Health Care
- Ezra Klein: Health Care Blogger Extraordinare
- Paul Krugman Attempts to Fill Ted Kennedy's Shoes
- Glenn Greenwald and the Politics of Ressentiment
- The Left's Odd Abandoment of Obama: Matt Taibbi
- You don't have to be happy about supporting this bill. But you should support it.
- The Left's Odd Abandoment of Obama: Glenn Greenwald
- Kashkari, 2009's Ideas, Richard Milhouse Obama, Frum!, Chinese-American Trade Imbalance, Obama's Nobel, and Charborg
- Global Warming: A conspiracy perpetuated by the sushi-eating, coastal elites known as polar bears.
- TownHall.com Still Thinks Its Readers Are Idiots...
- The NYT and WaPo bet their reputations on contrasting approaches to climate emails.
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Introduction
- A Unified Theory of Obama
- Dueling Op-Eds
- NBC's Dr. Nancy Defends Doctors in Breast Cancer Debate: "We are on the verge of becoming a scientifically illiterate country"
- That's What You Get For Trusting a WSJ Editorial
- The Emotional Logic of Trying KSM in Federal Court
- Health Care Reform is the most significant effort at cost control in a generation, if not ever.
- Deconstructing the Right Wing Appropriation of the Term "Appeasement"
- Chinese Racism, Andrew Ross Sorkin's Power, Andrew Sullivan's Catholicism, America's Decline (?), and Megan Fox's Savvy Self-Creation
- Fisking Camille Paglia
- Health Care Reform and Its Unintended Consequences
- Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio
- The Political Analysis of Laughter
- The Escalating War Over Judicial Appointments
- Lieberman Ready To "Stick the Knife" In Health Care Reform
- McCaffrey Caught In Another Lie
- The New Obama Paradox
- Why Do Republicans Oppose Net Neutrality?
- Mining Right Wing Critiques for Some Honesty
- Former Bush Attorney General: American Justice System Led to September 11
- The Fallacies of Mukasey
- An Empire or a Just Society?
- Must-Reads of Last Week: Data Warfare, Gay Rights, McCaughey, Summers, and Yankee Tickets
- Reacting to Obama's Nobel Prize
- Maintaining the Fragile Right Wing Coalition
- Must-Reads: Uighurs, Gay in Middle School, Vidal, Larison, the Public Option, and the End of Pax Americana
- Our "Small Freedoms"
- Matthew Continetti on the Health Care Debate: A Nihilist's Defense of the Right Wing Hardline
- Former Bush Speechwriter Takes on the Internet: Its all about "bullying, conspiracy theories and racial prejudice"
- Glenn Greenwald's Civil Libertarian Propaganda
- Stopping Rudy 2012 Before It Starts
- The Mayor's Filthy Salt Habit
- That Annoying "Pox on Both Their Houses" Mentality of the "Independent-Minded" Press
- 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
- Obama’s Dangerous Hypocrisy on Prisoners at Guantánamo and Bagram
- Dana Perino's Misleading Spin Regarding Matt Latimer
- Protests Against Liberals Running the Gov't (cont.)
- Must-Reads of the Week: Krugman v. Ferguson, Ted Kennedy again, Hank Paulson, Sedaris, and Phreaking
- John McCain's Cowardly Politics
- David Bauder Passes On Bernard Goldberg's Dubious Claim
- Mad Men, Catholic NYC, Ezra Klein, Social Security, Jon Stewart, Jared Diamond
- Stop Whining, Congressman Issa
- Military Envy
- Obama and the Technocrats
- In Case You Missed It: Best Reads of the Week on Whining Conservatives, Internet Battles, Peru, The Single Life, and the Unborn
- Is Obama Leading Us To A Technocratic Dystopia?
- Stop ObamaCare Before Obama Murders Your Comatose Wife and Infant Daughter!
- Dreaming can be dangerous
- The Federal Reserve, Henry Gates, Popular Policies, Health Care, Krugman on Cap and Trade, and High Times
- The Intoxicating Effect of Fatigue
- The Associated Press Jumps the Copyright Shark
- On Media Bias and Conventional Wisdom (cont.)
- On Media Bias
- Campbell Brown Does the Best Journalism Ever!
- McNamara, Cuomo, Bearing Witness, Iran's Bomb, Sri Lanken Victories, and Historical Dignity
- An idea for a new health care public service announcement
- Defending American Empire
- My Congressman Pete King Pisses On Michael Jackson; I Repay the Favor
- Noam Chomsky's Useful Fantasy
- It Is a "War"
- A Different Take on the Iranian Situation
- John McCain's Hip-Shooting Onanism
- Conservative Empathy
- Contra Taibbi: Fighting Them Over There So We Don't Need to Fight Them Here
- Cheney Is Preemptively Politicizing The Next Attack
- The intellectual deterioration of the conservative movement
- If you didn't lose your anal virginity to the Department of Homeland Security...
- Fox News uses Nazi propaganda to defend torture, attack Obama
- The Amnesia of the Right
- Profiling Holy Cross Grad Mark Walsh
- Taxing the Wealthy
- Andrew C. McCarthy's Self-Righteous Sophistry
- The Government Role in a Capitalist Economy
- Ruminations on the Egg and the Wall
- The Jack Bauer Archetype
- The Specter of Suburban Contentment
- The Significance of Jack Bauer
- Obama on the Blogs
- Don't Be Idiots: Stop Talking About the Fairness Doctrine
- Former Drug Czar McCaffrey Doesn't Care If Marijuana Is Legalized
- The only thing worse than spam is self-righteous spam.
- Jindal's Soapbox
- Comparing Michael Phelps's and A-Rod's Sins
- The Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege
- Greenwald's Rhetorical Tics
- Why I'm Confident About Obama (Still)
- What's Wrong With the Stimulus Plan
- The Populist Party Blog
- A Tortured Plot Device
- The Existential Clown
- Yes, the Senate Can Refuse to Seat Roland Burris
- Looking Through Iseman's Complaint Against The New York Times
- I think he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences.
- Psychoanalyzing Glenn Greenwald
- A Defense of Indiscretion (cont.)
- Signs We're Back in the 1950s
- Don (George) Will Tilts At Imaginary Liberals
- Drudge Jumps the Shark
- Holding a Grudge Against the Bank of America (Part 1)
- Kinky details enclosed...
- Ted Kennedy's Cancer
- Darkness at Noon
- Where did the real Glenn Greenwald Go?
- The Power of Story: 9/11 and the Averted Attack
- Go Fox Yourself!
- Chris Matthews: Entertaining Bloviation
- Lopate v. Jacoby on Vaccination
- How to Spin the Press
- Oddly appropriate over-the-top praise