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- Not All Church Signs Are Stupid
- In Response To Those Disturbed By Celebrating on the Death of Bin Laden
- Bloomberg: How To Use Immigration Policy to Save Detroit
- Capitalism in Practice
- Paul Ryan's America
- Right Wing Mythology
- The Sheeple of r/libertarian
- Protesters Bring Missiles to Ground Zero
- Lies and Facts About the "Ground Zero Mosque"
- The Victimhood Complex of the Right-Wing
- The use of propaganda to re-define the political landscape
- Health Care Reform: A Test of Whether the Country Could Tackle Its Most Vexing, Long-Term, Systematic Problems
- Must-Reads of the Week: The IRA, Journalism, Unsavory Profits, Bipartisanship, and the Tyranny of New York
- Some brief thoughts on Rand Paul
- 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
- Our Nation's Drug Enforcement in a Nutshell
- How the Supreme Court Nomination Process Rewards the Type of People Who Defer to Presidential Authority
- 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
- Why Can't Right-Wingers Recognize Democratic Efforts to Tackle the Deficit?
- Why Terrorists Aim For Big Well-Defended Targets
- Connecting the Dots on Epistemic Closure
- America in the Red
- 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."
- Why Marco Rubio Is the Future of the Republican Party
- Volker's Paradox
- Greenwald v. Larison & Douthat
- Arizona's Illegal Immigrant Problem Is Shrinking Even As The Hysteria Grows
- Wingnuts
- Yglesias Award Nominee
- How Not To Prove Someone Is Not a Racist
- Miracles Can Happen!
- Wall Street's enormous profits are evidence of a poorly functioning market (cont.)
- 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. (cont.)
- 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
- Craziness in My Email
- Government Is Good!
- Evaluating Mitt Romney’s 2012 Candidacy (cont.)
- Dammit, Reddit! You know I sorta love you, but sometimes...
- Surveillance In the Bush Administration
- 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.)
- Liberalism and the Punishments of the Free Market
- Copyright and the White House Photostream
- We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true.
- Thumbnail Sketches of Democrats and Republicans
- Worth a Thousand Words
- 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?
- Obama's Health Care Reforms are morally decent technocratic improvements
- Paul Ryan's Principled Objections to Obama's Health Care Reforms
- 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
- “Outsiders are what people want right now.”
- The Difference Between Obama's Health Care Reform and the Republican's Health Care Reform
- Obama Chooses Policy Over Politics
- Wieseltier owes Andrew Sullivan an apology. And The New Republic owes its readers a retraction.
- What Obama Is Trying to Accomplish With the Bipartisan Health Care Summit
- The Disparity Between the President's Foreign and Domestic Powers
- The Hypocrisy of Hoekstra
- How the Media Undermines Civility
- Why the Republicans Don't Want to Go to the Obama Health Care Summit They've Been Demanding
- Why Bipartisanship Is Impossible: The parties are locked in a zero-sum struggle for control of the government
- Richard Shelby's Brazen Exposure of Senate Flaws
- "To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature."
- Must-Reads of the Week: Ezra Klein, Sleeper Issue of 2010, Success, Virtual Insanity, Abdulmutallab, Obstruction, and Madden
- 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"
- How To Oppose Doing What the People Want: Pretend It's Something Else
- Explaining Republican Obstructionism: Party First
- Understanding President Obama and the budget deficit
- This lede bugs me...
- Not even the Bush administration argued that the Constitution applies only to American citizens
- Respected Republican Answers the Question: "But how will you save all that money?"
- Americans Want a Second Bush-Cheney Administration?
- Obama: You're Calling Me a 'Bolshevik' for Using Republican Ideas for Democratic Ends
- Ezra Klein: Our government's partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run systems.
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama (mythical figure), Democratic Talking Points, Health Care Misinformation & Defenses of Reform, & Musical Predictions
- An excellent State of the Union
- Downside Risk and Upside Potential
- Before You Watch Obama's Speech Tonight...
- Charlie Crist, Democrat?
- Story-Teller-In-Chief
- Hard to Believe: The Newest Allegation in the Edwards Scandal
- Obama versus Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism
- Worrying About Downside Risk
- Misunderstanding Race and the Under-30 Voters
- Buck Up, Democrats!
- The Edwards Morality Tale
- Governing Ambition Versus Political Theater
- Draw Your Own Conclusions
- Why Scott Brown's Election is Good for the Nation and the Democratic Party
- The Future of the Tea Party (cont.)
- 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.
- Pinhead of the Week: NJ Dem Frank Lautenberg
- The Rhetorical Phantoms of Their Own Making
- Scalia Seems Confused About Natural Law
- The Future of the Tea Party
- Ressentiment Redux
- In Praise of Tinkering: Health Care Reform
- Bipartisan in Substance
- The Utter Moral Certainty of Right Wing National Security Policy
- The Obvious Truths Neglected in Responses to the Christmas Bomber
- David Brooks Is Writing a Damn Good Column These Days
- Get It Through Your Heads: No President Can Keep You Safe
- Christopher Hitchens Speaking Uncomfortable Truths
- Rooting for a Fiscal Catastrophe
- Obama's Grass-Roots Machine
- A Failure of Skepticism on Reddit
- Geithner on the Political Bind the Obama Administration Faces
- The Best Proven Defense Against Terrorism
- Robert P. George's Perversions of Natural Law
- Greenwald Jumps the Shark?
- Today in Health Care
- Ezra Klein: Health Care Blogger Extraordinare
- Obama's Dramatic Showdown Leads to Climate Deal
- 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
- Krauthammer's Newest Big Lie
- You don't have to be happy about supporting this bill. But you should support it.
- Harry Reid's Heroism
- The Left's Odd Abandoment of Obama: Glenn Greenwald
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Democrats
- 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...
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Republicans
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Introduction
- Political Number Games
- A Unified Theory of Obama
- The Republican's Generational Warfare
- "Hardly Churchillian."
- And it was said that bloggers shall inherit the earth.
- National Review: "Soak the Rich!"
- The Un-American Pledge, Nietzsche (Republican), Islamists, Anti-Statism, Health Care Reform (again), and Abortion Politics
- 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
- The perfect encapsulation of the liberal attacks on George W. Bush
- Fisking Camille Paglia
- Health Care Reform and Its Unintended Consequences
- The Curdling of American Politics
- America's Schizophrenic Abortion Politics
- Nancy Pelosi's Essential Leadership
- The Constantly Invoked Hitler-Chamberlain-Churchill Fallacy
- Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio
- Limbaugh claims Obama is a radical leftist because he supports programs Republicans proposed a generation ago.
- The Political Analysis of Laughter
- What Would Republican Health Care Reform Look Like?
- Net Neutrality Is What Made the Internet a Libertarian Utopia
- The Escalating War Over Judicial Appointments
- Lieberman Ready To "Stick the Knife" In Health Care Reform
- A Vote To Debate Health Care Is A Vote for Democracy
- McCaffrey Caught In Another Lie
- The New Obama Paradox
- Why Do Republicans Oppose Net Neutrality?
- The most conservative senator is liberal favorite Olympia Snowe
- Former Bush Attorney General: American Justice System Led to September 11
- The Fallacies of Mukasey
- Hillary Mis-Speaks Again!!!
- 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"
- 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
- Reevaluating George W. Bush's Legacy
- Funding Health Care Through A Millionaires' Tax or One on "Cadillac Plans" - Why Not Both?
- 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
- The Rift Torture Created Between the CIA and FBI Made America Less Safe
- The Senate Must Allow A Vote
- 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.)
- These Protests Aren't Against Big Government, But About Liberals Running the Government
- A Reactionary Politics Leads To Torture
- Rep. Joe Wilson Tries To Turn His National Moment Into Fundraising Gold!
- Senator Grassley Talks Out Of Both Sides of His Mouth On Health Care Reform
- A Health Care Plan More Impressive Than Perfection: Something That Might Pass
- Shadow Government: TownHall.com warns of a scary Obama!
- Must-Reads of the Week: Krugman v. Ferguson, Ted Kennedy again, Hank Paulson, Sedaris, and Phreaking
- Glenn Beck: God Is An Atheist!
- The Lessons of 1993/1994 (cont.)
- A suggestion for Glenn Beck
- Fighting Glenn Beck for a Better World
- A World Where 24 Is "Believable" and Orwell Is Misquoted
- Are You A Libertarian If...
- Health Care Lie #494: Health Insurance Companies and Their Allies Are Blocking Reform
- Health Care Lie #493: Rationing
- Yglesias: "Progressive politics at its best isn’t about bigger government but about attacking privilege and power."
- TownHall.com Considers Its Readers Gullible Idiots
- Remembering Ted Kennedy: "He lived his own large life and the ledger of it shows a substantial positive balance."
- John McCain's Cowardly Politics
- "Fixing" The National Conversation
- Governor Rick Perry Lies to Voters As He Prepares for a National Race
- Shame on You, Mr. Hentoff
- Weekly Must-Reads: Disappearing, the Super-Rich, Harry Potter, the Public Option, Craziness, and Abortion
- Quote of the Day
- The CIA Hired Blackwater to Help with Covert Killings
- Tricking Us Into Real Health Care Reform
- Health Care Lie #492*: A Government Takeover of 16% of the Economy
- David Bauder Passes On Bernard Goldberg's Dubious Claim
- The Caricature of Rahm Emanuel
- Obama's Promise Was To Break the Hold the Idiocrats Have On Our Society
- Fact-Checking Taibbi: The Sarah Palin of Journalism?
- The Maddow-Coburn Debate on Meet the Press; and the Necessity of Violence
- Mad Men, Catholic NYC, Ezra Klein, Social Security, Jon Stewart, Jared Diamond
- The Smearing of Ezekiel Emanuel
- Right wingers, desperate to return to power, turn to the man they demonized, Saul Alinsky
- The Right-Wing Canard of 'Rationing' and Health Care Reform
- 4 Points on Health Care
- Ezra Klein's Mood Swings
- The Bankruptcy of Deficit Politics
- Chuck Norris says "Obamacare" will result in "home intrusion" and socialist "indoctrination" of your children. So it must be true.
- Senator David Vitter Lies Again: Claims Health Reform Creating "Abortion Mandate" That Will Kill "Millions Upon Millions"
- An Encroaching Technocracy
- Prominent Liberal Blogger: Obama acting exactly as if he does have a secret "death committee"!!!
- Right-Wing Editorial FAIL!
- Mild-Mannered Columnist Steven Pearlstein Gets Mad
- Stopping the Democrats from Descending to Sarah Palin's Level
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform
- The AARP Pushes Back Against What It Calls Crazy Rumors About Health Care Reform
- Gog et Magog, Hypomania in the White House, Reuters!, The Most Interesting Man in the World, and the NRLC
- Zeke Emanuel on the Health Insurance Exchange
- The Perks of Princes
- Stop Whining, Congressman Issa
- A Jumble of Health Care Related Points
- Censoring the Truth About the Crusader Prince?
- Lies About Health Care Reform
- Obama and the Technocrats
- Bill Maher Takes On The Birthers
- What Do Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Che Guevera Have in Common?
- In Case You Missed It: Best Reads of the Week on Whining Conservatives, Internet Battles, Peru, The Single Life, and the Unborn
- Glenn Greenwald's Ideological Wind Tunnel
- Best Line of the Week
- Is Obama Leading Us To A Technocratic Dystopia?
- Bill Maher Explains Why Profits Don't Need To Be Part of Our Health Care System
- The Libertarian-Democratic Alliance Will Survive
- Stop ObamaCare Before Obama Murders Your Comatose Wife and Infant Daughter!
- Instead of a Fairness Doctine, a Fair Shake
- Health Care Reform: Choice and Security
- A Leap of Faith on Health Care
- The Federal Reserve, Henry Gates, Popular Policies, Health Care, Krugman on Cap and Trade, and High Times
- Our Wall-Street Run Health Care
- The Option of Doing Nothing on Health Care
- The Lesson of 1993/1994
- Sick of all this naivete about Obama
- A Distinctly American Health Care System
- Health Care Reform To Stimulate the Entrepreneurship
- Sympathizing with AIG, Peace with Islamists, Senator Al Franken, Jay-Z, the Newest Lost Generation, and the Future of Journalism
- Tear down our capitalist system and replace it with a free market.
- Alberto Gonzales: Sharp Like An Old Crayon
- Cokie Roberts Thinks the Rule of Law Might Be More Important Than A Pleasant Atmosphere in Washington
- On Media Bias and Conventional Wisdom (cont.)
- Why I Despise Sarah Palin
- On Media Bias
- Campbell Brown Does the Best Journalism Ever!
- McNamara, Cuomo, Bearing Witness, Iran's Bomb, Sri Lanken Victories, and Historical Dignity
- The Intellectual History of the Green Wave
- My Congressman Pete King Pisses On Michael Jackson; I Repay the Favor
- Noam Chomsky's Useful Fantasy
- Organizing a Grass Roots Movement for Health Care Reform
- The People’s Rage At A System That Had Failed Them
- Happy Birthday, America! Our Modern-Day George Wallace (in heels) is giving up the little power she has
- The Honeymoon Is Over
- Explaining Obama's "Double Standard" Regarding Iran and Honduras
- It Is a "War"
- Matt Yglesias's Prejudiced Caricature of Catholicism
- Email UPS to Stop Their Sponsorship of Glenn Beck's Advocating Terrorism To "Save" America
- Michael Jackson's Gift to the Ayatollah Khamenei
- A "Smart" Girl's Partisanly-Selective Indignation
- The Rule of Law in Honduras
- The Obama Doctrine
- Obama Hasn't Betrayed The Gay Rights Movement (Yet)
- A Pink Elephant Through the Looking Glass
- The Incoherence of Ajami
- John McCain's Hip-Shooting Onanism
- Experimenting With National Security Policy
- The High Point of Web Journalism
- How Obama Uses Civility and Respect as Political Weapons
- NSA's Secret Pinwale Program Used to Spy on Bill Clinton
- Are The Pieces Aligning on Health Care?
- Biden Says Talks With Iran To Go Forward
- Mirror Neurons, Iran's Fissures, Yglesian Insights, The Deficit Crisis, Rare Minerals
- The Limits of the Free Market
- Stay Classy, Sarah Palin: Palin Insinuates David Letterman is a Child Rapist
- Obama's Grand Bargain (as a necessary response to the deficit problem)
- The Supreme Court Holds Up the Chrysler Sale
- Judge Sotomayor Defends a Racist Cop
- Closed-Door Hearings
- The Reagan Revolution (cont.)
- Leverage and Power
- The Cairo Rapprochement
- Variations on a Theme
- Brink Lindsey v. Paul Krugman
- Facebook Diplomacy (cont.)
- "Nobody’s going to wage a tough political battle to give up power."
- Judge Sotomayor
- A Week Off From Blogging
- Irony Watch: Cheney on Euphemisms
- A Truth Commission
- Conservative Empathy
- David Brooks's Special Place in Washington
- Facebook Diplomacy
- Obama and the Rule of Law
- Cheney Is Preemptively Politicizing The Next Attack
- If you didn't lose your anal virginity to the Department of Homeland Security...
- Quote of the Day
- How Pakistan Is Like AIG
- Fox News uses Nazi propaganda to defend torture, attack Obama
- Must-Reads of the Week
- Understanding Reactionaries
- The Amnesia of the Right
- Equality of Result versus Equality of Opportunity
- Pakistan: The Edge of the Abyss
- Taxing the Wealthy
- Andrew C. McCarthy's Self-Righteous Sophistry
- Why Should I Care If a Terrorist Was Tortured?
- The Value of a Safety Net
- Replacing Souter
- Homo Blogicus, Pup, Pakistan, Torture, Marijuana, and the Revenge of Geography
- The Irony in the Jane Harman Mess
- Name, Rank and Serial Number
- Right-wingers Obsessed About Obama's "Apology Tour"
- When Obama Should Torture Osama
- Torture Works...For Some Things...
- Palin the Performer
- 3 interesting short essays
- Ten Principles of Liberalism
- Framing the Torture Debate
- 7 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
- Tweeting Revolution
- Jon Stewart Analyzes What Makes Republicans Cry, "Tyranny!"
- A Typically Wrong-headed Krauthammer Column
- The Real Obama Enigma
- Orwellian Tactics
- Torture is worse than immoral: it’s tactically stupid
- The Two Novels That Can Change Your Life
- Financial Markets : Real Economy (Is There a Proper Balance?)
- The elation of victory is fleeting and the burden of responsibility is enduring
- Is This Downturn a Crisis of Confidence or a Fundamental Error?
- Joe Campbell: I'm Not a Sexist Because I Disagree With Angie Harmon
- A man who thinks in grand words made up of few letters.
- The Obama Doctrine
- Stimulus and Stability (cont.)
- The Only Credible Response to Globalization
- The Paradox In Organzing For America
- Signs of Hope: Iran
- Eliot Spitzer's Comeback
- The Price of Prohibition I: Propping Up The Mexican Cartels
- "The Disgraced Former Governor" on WNYC
- Sarkozy: Right on nothing, prescient on everything
- Ruminations on the Egg and the Wall
- The Reagan Revolution (cont.)
- The Real Scandal of AIG
- Former Drug Czars Against the War on Drugs (cont.)
- The Jack Bauer Archetype
- The Primal Politics of Pakistan
- Colin Gray on China, Terrorism, and Proliferation
- The Significance of Jack Bauer
- The Reagan Revolution
- The Battle of the Rich
- Culture War: Overclass Edition
- Stimulus and Stability
- Housing in Detroit
- The Unintended Consequences of a War on Drugs
- Free markets exist not in spite of the government, but because of government.
- Jim Cramer Jumps the Shark
- Don't Be Idiots: Stop Talking About the Fairness Doctrine
- The 7 Layers of Opposing Obama's Response to the Financial Crisis
- Signs of the Coming Upheaval
- Piercing the White House Bubble
- A Liberal's Flat Tax
- A Summary of the Civil Libertarian Case for a "War" Against Terrorism
- Former Drug Czar McCaffrey Doesn't Care If Marijuana Is Legalized
- Bobby Jindal's Soapbox (cont.)
- The Partisan Eruption During Obama's State of the Union
- Schwarzeneger Demonstrates the Idiocy of Anti-Partisanship
- The Larger Narrative
- Jindal's Soapbox
- A Confession of Love To The Paradox That Is America
- The Hypocrisy of the Traders' Revolt
- Andrew Sullivan's Warning Shot
- The Games Obama Plays
- An Age of Upheaval? - Instability, Legitimacy, and the Economic Crisis
- What Are Republican Principles Again? (cont.)
- What Are Republican Principles Again?
- George F. Will's Ultimate Putdown
- Interpeting Obama's Stimulus Strategy
- The War on Drugs Is Making Us Less Safe
- Post-Cold War Triumphalism
- Obama's Long Game
- The Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege
- Commenting on Paul Krugman
- Weekend Update: Obama Screwed Up; So Did Kellogs
- Why I'm Confident About Obama (Still)
- The Brave and Wise Politician
- The Last Thing We Need Is A Liberal Scalia
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe (cont.)
- Wall Street Exec: "I’d almost rather say I’m a pornographer."
- The Inherent Character Flaws of Politicians
- The Back of Obama's Hand
- What's Wrong With the Stimulus Plan
- The Highlights From Davos
- Torture, Plain and Simple
- Fair-Minded Yglesias
- Why It Should Be A 'War' Against Terrorism
- Not Taking the War on Terror Seriously
- Stirring Up Trouble
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism (cont.)
- A Useful Bullying
- Why Liberals Must Embrace the Wars Against Terrorism
- A Tortured Plot Device
- Defending Caroline Kennedy
- Europe's Impotence
- A Double Standard (cont.)
- A Double Standard
- The Dynamics of Moral Outrage, Group Hatred, and Violence
- Eliot Spitzer v. Sarah Connor
- Israel and Hamas
- Yes, the Senate Can Refuse to Seat Roland Burris
- Looking Through Iseman's Complaint Against The New York Times
- Stuck on the Terrorist Watch List
- Irony Watch
- Hypocrisy or Unknown Principles
- A Numerical Summary of the Bush Administration
- I think he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences.
- Psychoanalyzing Glenn Greenwald
- Distractions
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe From Terrorism (cont.)
- The Source of Authority
- Opposing Pete King for NY Senate
- How the War on Drugs Is Making America Less Safe From Terrorism
- Illegal Drugs and the War on Terror
- Caroline Kennedy (cont. again)
- Caroline Kennedy (cont.)
- An Ambitious Presidency
- The Judgment of History
- Only we can throw shoes at our president
- A Defense of Indiscretion (cont.)
- Dripping With Contempt
- Signs We're Back in the 1950s
- Caroline Kennedy
- The Blagojevich Scandal
- Like Small Children
- Liberty is Not Another Word for Anti-Antiterrorism
- The Generation That Sucked
- Middle-Class Murmers
- The Glaring Idiocy of Political Reporters
- Jon Stewart for Senate
- Post-Presidential Adventures
- Who’s Paying to Promote RFK, Jr. for Senate? (cont.)
- Who's Paying to Promote RFK, Jr. for Senate?
- Honoring William F. Buckley Jr.
- To maintain independence, eat Chipotle at your desk
- The Manufactured Fairness Doctrine Controversy
- Quote of the Day
- Bringing Back the Fairness Doctrine
- The Anatomy of an Obama Revolution
- Lincoln's Advice on the Detroit Bailout
- Adam Reilly Argues Against the Fairness Doctine
- The Downfall of the Conservative Intellectual
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Secretary of State
- Lieberman
- Jindal 2012 or 2016 (cont.)
- The Scowcroft Conspiracy
- The Surge that Took Down the Red Cross
- Obama & Trade
- Lincoln's Memory
- Quotes Summarizing the Past 8 Years
- Appalachia
- What's Next?
- FDR's and Obama's Prayer
- A Skinny Kid With a Funny Name
- A Skeptic's Case For Barack Obama
- In the Shadow of September 11 and the War on Terrorism
- You don't need to boo, you just need to vote...
- Quote of the Day
- Wanna See Something Really Scary?
- Happy Halloween
- Dreher's Vaticination
- Alaskans for Obama
- Bad Math
- Socialism, huh?
- Fascinating Fact of the Day
- Jindal 2012
- What Al Qaeda Really Fears
- The Legitimacy of the State
- Fuming Over Their Own Confusions
- The Worst Are Full of Passionate Intensity
- Unintended Consequences
- The Promise Versus the Proposals of Obama
- The World Is Blowing Up. We Can't Be One-Issue Voters Today.
- The Collapse of the Republican Consensus
- The Art of Character Sketches
- John McCain's America
- Hitler took on the special interests too
- The Blame Game
- Hoax!
- Palin 2012
- The Failure of Free Market Ideology
- Jumping Ship: McCain Team Fights Over Blame
- Drudge's Bold Red Headlines
- OMF - G20
- A Bitter Interview
- A Megaphone to a Demagogue
- Pro-Marriages Forces Against Gay Marriage
- John McCain, Neoconservative
- Mourning McCain
- Leave It To Beaver Socialism
- Barack Obama Is Not a Socialist!
- The Animal Kingdom Endorses Obama
- McCain in a Plane over Spain
- You Stole Our Obama Sign
- Moose for Obama
- Old Men Are Dangerous
- A Sarah-gogue
- The Wrong Lessons, The Wrong Leader
- A Warning to John McCain
- The Vice Presidential Debate
- Lies About Obama #1: A Closet [insert far-left group here]
- An Obvious Omen
- The Poetry of Sarah Palin
- Paul Begala on The Colbert Report
- Optimistic v. Pessimistic Views of the Financial Crisis
- David Brooks's Brand Loyalty
- Yesterday's American Heroes, Not Tomorrow's Leaders
- A Wink and a Wagging Finger
- John McCain: Gambling With Our Futures
- "A Partisan Speech" by Pelosi
- Ideology Above Country
- Fun Fact About John McCain #12: He Wants to Tax Your Health Care Benefits
- "You were wrong."
- Fun Fact About John McCain #11: Fiscal Irresponsibility
- Fun Fact About John McCain #10: A Third Bush Term
- Fun Facts About John McCain #9: Phil Gramm
- Fun Fact About John McCain #8: Not About Issues
- Like a Ricky Gervais sketch
- SmearedbytheTruth
- David Letterman takes on McCain
- Off the Deep End
- Fun Fact About McCain #7: McCain Will Destroy the Internet as We Know It
- Fun Fact About McCain #6: Deregulation
- Fun Fact About McCain #5: Bad Blood with Hillary?
- Fun Fact About McCain #4: Smears
- Yglesias: Bush pressured Maliki to revise the withdrawl date to bail out McCain
- Fun Fact About McCain #3: Temper Tantrum in Nicaragua
- Fun Fact About McCain #2: Attacking The Character of His Opponents
- The Price of Panic
- Fun Fact About McCain #1: Panicking in a Crisis
- Bartlet's Advice
- SNL Skewers McCain
- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog interviews Ralph Nader
- McCain v. Spain
- Confronting Another Architect of War
- Calm Down!
- The Difference Between McCain's Bi-Partisanship and Obama's Post-Partisanship
- Breaking Through the Fog: Barack Obama's Plan
- A year ago today...
- Did Obama violate the Logan Act?
- A Pro-Obama, Anti-McCain Email
- Thanking the Jawa Report
- McCain: Without Honor
- Neoconservatives, gleeful, see Palin as "a blank page"
- The Palin-Clinton Press Conference on Sexism - Live from New York on Saturday Night
- Obama: Everyone chill the f*** out, I got this.
- Brooks and Krugman on the State of the Campaign
- McCain Bipartisanship vs. Obama Bipartisanship
- The Lesson We Did Not Learn from 9/11
- Grandstanding McCain: Despite Fine Words, He Refused to Act on Torture
- McCain: Insulting the Voters' Intelligence
- Inviting America to Attack John McCain's Character
- A Country Unlike Any Other
- "We are all Georgians!": Fantasy as Foreign Policy
- Will Bin Laden Endorse McCain?
- Obama v. McCain on Health Care
- Selling Tom Friedman
- McCain Ad Echoes Smear Emails
- Lies About Obama's Tax Plans
- The Complicated Business of Judging Sarah Palin
- McCain's Speech
- 11 Reasons to Donate to Barack Obama Tonight
-
4 More Years! - Chastizing the Media
- I Got Almost as Many Votes as Palin When I Was in College
- Palin's Speech
- The Stages of Rumordom
- Unhinged
- Vision versus Compromise
- The Crimes Behind Cindy McCain's Fortune
- She was born with ovaries! I was born with ovaries!
- VPILF Palin
- Bush-McCain Refuses to Make Tough Foreign Policy Choices
- The POW Card
- Yet Another Blatant Power Grab By the Obamas
- McCain Throws an Elbow
- Bill
- Dukakis: "I owe the American people an apology."
- "A Clear and Present Danger to the Security of the West"
- Conservatives Dodge the Abortion Question
- The Intersection of Rich, Out-of-Touch, and Old
- Quote of the Day
- Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
- Quote of the Day
- Where's Joe Biden When You Need Him?
- Obamanomics
- Dubya Made Obama Possible
- The Qualities Needed To Succeed
- Change Before It’s Too Late
- It's Joe Biden
- A Hillary or A Gore
- A Page from Nixon's Playbook
- Reconciling With Hillary
- Barack Obama's New Ad is Unfair
- Another Third Party Candidate for President
- Why I Am Still Confident About Obama's Campaign
- Obama Tells You Why You Shouldn't Be Disillusioned Because of His FISA Vote
- The Cross in the Sand
- A Card to Send to Those You Love
- Why I Support Obama
- Defying Common Sense Since 2001
- xkcd v. Diebold
- The PUMAs and Jerome Corsi
- Jerome Corsi, Author of Obama Nation, Is an Anti-Catholic Bigot
- 'The Fairness Doctrine for the Internet' is a Conservative Strawman
- Do you support Bush today more than you did four years ago?
- The Battle Over Whether Net Neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet
- Stephen Colbert Wants You!
- A President for Our Dangerous Times
- Casting Stones
- Beware of "Fiscal Conservatives"
- Fake It 'til You Make It
- Quote of the Day
- The slippery slope
- An insight about blogging
- Oliver Stone's "W" Trailer
- Obama World Tour Round-up
- Explaining Away McCain's Foreign Policy Gaffes
- Setting America Up to Fail
- And they were worried about Mitt Romney...
- Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plans
- The 188-Minute Workout
- The Housing Price Roller Coaster
- Obama releases list of approved jokes.
- Jon Stewart Defends the New Yorker
- A Liberal Defends George W. Bush's Legacy
- A New Pro-Cindy McCain Obama Smear Email
- Faux outrageous: The New Yorker's Political Cover
- Obama and McCain: The Younger Years
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Socialism for the Rich
- Giuliani Doesn't Get It
- Why Obama's FISA Vote Shouldn't Disillusion You
- Barack Obama, FISA, and Telecom Immunity
- The Military Chooses Obama
- Berlin Loves Obama
- Why I Am Still Supporting Barack Obama After His Vote For Telecom Immunity
- America's Inherent Fragility
- Larry Johnson's Hit Job on Hillary Clinton
- Iraq insists on withdrawal timetable
- Quote of the Day
- The Last Hillary 2008 Supporters: A Journey Into the Surreal World of the PUMAs
- One of Rush Limbaugh's sentences
- A Warning from Secretary Gates: "Our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America" if we strike Iran.
- The Opinionsphere Looks Under the Bus
- Re-Introducing 2parse.com and Debating "Fast Eddie Obama"
- Bush to Attack Iran as an October Surprise?
- Rest in Peace, George Carlin
- If that's what you believe, Mr. McCain, you'll have to draft me.
- Patriotism as a Weapon
- Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense
- Cindy McCain's Country Club Patriotism
- A Sign of the Times
- Quote of the Day
- Don't Hold the Democratic Party Hostage!
- A Neo-Empire in the Middle East
- Contempt, high-minded, and glamorous
- Hayden on Obama: I didn't see him coming.
- America: Kind of Like Spider-man
- Obama is our excuse
- The Drudge Primary
- Bloggers Track Down "Michelle Obama 'Whitey' Tape"
- The Spectacular Failure of Hillary Clinton
- Digg Lies!
- 8 Reasons Why Hillary Should Not Be VP
- Obama versus McCain on Iraq
- The American Moment
- Shameless
- On To November
- The Weekly Standard Jumps the Shark
- The ultimate feelgood war
- "Never really interested in judges"
- The Last Plausible Woman Candidate
- The Kitchen Sink
- Noah, Grandpa Dragon, and the King of the Beasts
- The Spirit that Animated the American Experiment
- Obama-Webb 08
- Questions about McCain's Foreign Policy
- Evaluating McCain's 'realistic idealism'
- Some perspective on how crazy Americans are...
- It's all Condi' fault
- Will Ferrell's Fashionable Patriotism
- Noonan on sexism
- Veepstakes
- The two most powerful narratives in American history
- 7 Reasons Why Hillary Should Not Be the VP
- Clinton inciting an "open civil war"
- Obama will stand with the Muslims
- Obama-Clinton?
- The Ron Paul Revolution
- Lieberman's selective indignation
- Ted Kennedy's Cancer
- Process Revolutions
- Betting on the Laziness of Americans, Part III
- Darkness at Noon
- McCain: Puppies for everyone!
- The curmudgeonly conservative columnist questions McCain
- The moment Obama did not create
- Obama explains Hamas's "endorsement"
- John McCain is so old...
- Confronting the architects of war
- Where did the real Glenn Greenwald Go?
- If we hired like we vote...
- Hillary's Qualifications
- Gaming the System
- When Obama wins...
- Did John Edwards Slip and Reveal Who He Is Going to...
- Some quick things...
- We Now Know Who the Nominee Will Be
- Back...
- A "Granita Pact"
- What Obama is doing on May 30th
- 'DC Madam' Dead in 'Suicide'
- A difference in philosophy: Obama v. Clinton on gays
- Gas Tax Politics
- Ambinder: Superdelegates believe in witchcraft?
- Why Not to Wear a Tie Around John McCain
- A Moderate Reputation: Explaining McCain's Changes of Heart
- Hillary's No "Pansy"
- Chaffee on Bush
- Killing the United Nations
- The Power of Story: 9/11 and the Averted Attack
- Too Much Like a GQ Cover?
- The Urgency of Our Problems as a Nation
- Al-Zawahri Zawahri speaks
- The Price You Pay to Lead
- Not Too Close To Call After All...
- Too Close to Call...
- Waiting on Pennsylvania
- Pope Endorses Barack Obama in UN Speech
- Nostalgia for the Bush administration
- Hillary: Stay in this Race!
- Hillary running to be president...of 9/11
- The Shockingly Widespread Sense
- Following Up "The Paradox of Barack Obama"
- Betting on the American People
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Hillary's great favor
- There is no Obama in Italy
- Secret Muslims
- On "Bitter"
- Bitter?
- Shin Bet Refuses to Assist in Providing Security to President Carter
- Go Fox Yourself!
- Chris Matthews: Entertaining Bloviation
- Yoo are too Clever by a Half
- A Three Year Old Endorses Obama
- Maybe that challenge doesn't look so bad for Mr. Obama after all.
- The Logic of Hillary '08
- Raban's Reflections on Obama
- And Obama wants to be President??????
- Andrew Sullivan nails it.
- Edwards: Santa Claus & Easter Bunny More Plausible Than Hillary as the Agent of Change
- Ed Markey's Avatar
- Fighting the Advil menace, one strip search at a time
- A harsh judgment
- The Obama Girl Effect
- Duck-and-cover
- Rich dumb kids
- Obamusic
- Senator McCain and Senator Bradley
- The growing chorus
- September 11
- An emotional calculus
- Idealizing ourselves while demonizing others
- Republican Party to Ron Paul Supporters: Get lost!
- The Good Friday Interview
- What it means to be a politician
- Is Joe Lieberman acting as a "stealth Democrat"?
- More peril than we are willing to admit
- An Historical Change of Course
- A More Perfect Union
- God Damn the United States
- Friday Night Specials
- The Prosecution of Governor Siegelman
- Wikipedian recognition
- Fuck Hillary's Big Money Pals
- The race card and Ferraro
- Suspicious activities...
- "Cynicism"
- Top McCain aide: Thanks for softening Obama up for us.
- Steve King: Obama will be a savior to Al Qaeda
- Eliot Spitzer: Client #9?
- Clinton and the Mummy
- Political cartoons
- Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. and Trinity United Church of Christ
- Don't you sell America to me.
- Old guy singing...about Barack Obama
- Quote of the Day
- A Hypothetical Question of Judgment
- Hope Wins the Night
- Quote of the Day
- Gray's Papaya for Obama!!
- How to Spin the Press
- The New York Times Endorsement
- Public groundswells
- A short history of "Whoops!"
- Awkwardly phrased spin
- Linda Chavez's unhinged "patriotism"
- Torture, law-breaking, and the American way
- A Card-Carrying Civil Libertarian
- Soft on crime
- "Nonesense on Stilts"
- How Hillary's Think Tank Went for Obama
- Passive support for al-Qaeda
- Trial lawyers want to protect your civil liberties!
- Pathological idiocy: Mark Steyn
- How Barack Obama inspired the West Wing Finale
- The Obamanauts
- Klansmen for Obama
- The Coming Financial Pandemic
- The Governors' Meeting
- A narrow market share
- If you injected Obama with sodium penathol...
- Local color
- The political tide
- A telling comment...
- Not a revolution
- Renegade and Romantic
- Transformational politics
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Stay in the Race
- Trial lawyers and telecom immunity
- Idealism in the service of realism
- McCain and 'the Bad Guys'
- Charisma and the Cult of Personality
- Refusing to buy into the Obama hype
- Playing politics
- Gandhi's Virgins (and McCain's lobbyists)
- Experience in history
- The Press and Ms. Clinton
- Obama messed up my "game"
- Hope Changes Everything
- Farrakhan: The Hope of the Entire World
- Turn the page..
- Hillary Clinton and the Duck
- Why the Press Loves McCain
- Imagine Vladmir Putin...
- How not to lose
- Where Was this Fierce Clinton Then?
- No comment.
- Bloomberg calls it 'fraud'
- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
- Ready from Day 1
- The two sides of John McCain
- The Rebranding of America: Barack Obama
- My opponent gives speeches.
- Lawrence Lessig for Congress
- Scooter Libby Justice
- Just words?
- The Obamas' Student Loans
- $5.01: The Price of Change
- Like Hope, But Different
- A Sure Losing Strategy
- The Reactive Executive
- Conversations on a train
- $5.01 Barack Obama "Money Bomb" Set for February 12th
- Real change is still hard.
- The Case for Barack Obama
- Fair-minded words
- "Openly opposing torture"
- Yes. We. Can.
- Senator, you always do us right. This time, you did us proud.
- A collective failure
- The next time...
- The Visionary Minimalist
- The process of change and changing the process
- An Historical Footnote: Eisenhower's Baptism
- Dawn in South Carolina
- Slowly standing up
- My Hillary Story
- Sooner Than You Think
- Shades of Grey
- And Obama wins big.
- Mike Huckabee and AdWords
- Unproductive, Distasteful Mudslinging
- The New York Times Endorses Hillary Clinton
- The Paradox of Barack Obama
- A Ship In Need of Repairs
- Only If We Become a Great People
- Is this man telling you the truth?
- Why Hillary Clinton Should Withdraw From the Race Today
- Be honest.
- David Brooks: Bush Administration Thinks Hillary Will Protect Their Legacy
- A summary of the "Hillary hacked NH" story
- Erica Jong endorses Hillary
- Bill and Hillary: You're no LBJ
- GOP Cheerleader #1!
- Before we came here, we thought of ourselves as good people.
- People Who Play the Game
- What bothers me about Hillary
- Fox News v. Obama
- The Laziness and Gullibility of the American People, Part II
- The Laziness and Gullibility of the American People
- A Dream Deeply Rooted in the American Dream
- Bush Democrats for Hillary!
- Real change should be hard
- The Morning After
- Running out of ballots
- If you get the girl up on her tiptoes, you should kiss her...
- Against deep odds and great cynicism I will ask you to believe...
- John Edwards defends Obama, rhetorically bitch slaps Clinton
- I Heart John Edwards
- The Petty Paul (Krugman)
- Just like I imagined it when I was talking to my Kindergarten teacher...
- Obama! Ya gotta believe...
- I love reddit, but some source-checking would do wonders.
- Obama and the Progressive Netroots
- "Only idiots signed up. Only idiots died."
- The definitive guide to the January 3, 2008 Iowa Democratic Party Caucuses
- Hillary Clinton - does she think no one is paying attention?
- Tomorrow's Day 1
- Chris Rock on Hillary: "I think America is ready for a woman president, but does it have to be that woman?"
- To be partisan
- Edwards v. Obama: The closing arguments
- Frank Rich v. Paul Krugman
- It Can't Happen Here
- Wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross
- Huckabee v. Obama
- Flexibility as a principle
- Why I cannot support Ron Paul
- The libertarian liberal
- Why I write this blog
- The moment is now...
- It is not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me...
- Hillary v. Barack, Third Grade Edition
- Giuliani: There is something deranged about you...
- Two articles to mull over
- Sex on the City
- With good judgment, little else matters. Without it, nothing else matters.
- Chris Rock: “You’d be real embarrassed” if Obama Won and You Supported “That White Lady”
- Obama meeting with Mayor Bloomberg?
- The Iraq Thing
- Overrated Much?
- Our Lady of the Law
- How Kucinich Found Love
- Does winning the Supreme Court galvanize social movements?
- The Disengagement with Power
- A Defense of Compromise and the American Experiment
- Experience : Judgment :: Clinton : Obama (or Paul or Kucinich)
- Mister 9/11
- Awesome.
- Staving off disaster in Pakistan
- Did our foreign policy cause 9/11?
- Tom Friedman, Car Salesman
- And I am Caesar.
- Vince Flynn & The Preemptive Surrender of American Values
- The Reappearance of Monica Lewinsky
- Drudge Headline: "WOLF WARNED: NO GANGING UP ON HILLARY IN VEGAS!"
- "The fierce urgency of now" and Barack Obama
- The meaning of is is
- The Real Obama
- "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
- Geraldine Ferraro attempting to defend Hillary
- Obama v. Giuliani
- Quote of the Day
- Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama
- "September 12 happened one day after September 11..."
- "Hillary can handle the men just fine. What's giving her problems is Hillary."
- What Rights Should We Give Terrorists?
- Obama on Iran
- Barack Obama Reflecting on the Desire to Be President
- Yet Another Reason Agricultural Subsidies Hurt Us
- "No Panicking in Obama-Land"
- Graphics of Election 2008 Polls
- The Beginning of the End of Hillary 2008
- David Brooks gets it right for once...
- A First Lady I'd Like To ....
- Live-blogging the MSNBC Debate...
- As the race tightens...
- The Evangelical Crackup
- A thoughtful hit piece
- "Throwing a few elbows..."
- Worth Mulling Over
- Barack Obama on Iraq
- "Judgment we can trust. Barack Obama. President."
- "We didn't start the fire..."
- The Sublime Truthiness of Stephen Colbert
- McCain's Health Care Plan
- A Libertarian Perspective on Clinton
- Why can't Democrats take on religious hypocrisy like this
- Giuliani on the Set of Cabaret
- Worth Reading
- The Failure of Al Gore: A Defense of a Good Man
- Pragmatic, Principled, Obama
- Why I Am Confident About Obama - Or a Roundup of Recent Election 2008 News
- The Next JFK?
- Under the Weather..
- Columbus Day
- Pakistani Power Politics
- A true parable
- The Candidates
- The Choice
- Rationalizing inhumanity
- How the Clintons Relax
- “Fired Up. Ready to Go.”
- That Biden Touch
- “Senior White House Official” on Obama
- Obama Gets Iowa Dem’s Endorsement
- What a President Needs…