Amanda posted an interesting piece today on the resurgence of Republicans (particularly this cycle’s crop of presidential aspirants) claiming that they once had Democratic tendencies, but had some experience that brought them to their senses and to the proper Republican path. She points out, rightly, many of these stories are merely fabrications to endear the […]
…that (a) this statement by “Lori on slacktivist wasn’t true, and (b) that I was clever enough to phrase it this way first: In fairness, there has been a vigorous 3 decade long campaign to redefine Liberal as “slightly to the left of Ho Chi Minh” and also, inexplicably, “Hitler”. If you believed that you’d […]
Aren’t you all supposed to be young, hip, internet-saavy social networking types who were suprised to find upon moving into the west wing that government technology infrastructure was stodgy and behind the times? Assuming this is the case, I’d think that you’d be aware of one of the cardinal rules of online behavior: Really, by […]
As I’ve been perusing the social networking sites this week, I’ve noticed an interesting pattern beginning to emerge. In the last couple of days since the resolution of all that budget and potential shutdown theater we saw last week, a lot of people are starting to realize that all these proposed cuts to the federal […]
Quoth Newt Gingrich, Republican presidential hopeful for 2012, whose unlikely strategy for standing out from the rest of the pack is to portray himself as the reasonable and intellectual historian in a field dominated by raving wingnuts: I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by […]
Courtesy of Thomas Paine, journalist, propagandist, and one of the “Fathers” of the American Revolution: Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. A valid and worthy thought, and one that goes completely against the context in which Paine tends to be invoked these days. Just because some guy wrote it […]
Dana Milbank at the Washington Post had a brilliant, beautiful idea the other day, that I thought I ought to share here. Starting today, February 1, 2010, Milbank has vowed to, for at least one month, not mention a certain public figure, and encouraging everyone else to do so, in the hope that by the […]
…those measures, of course, being the shot, the fifth, the case, and the keg… In what’s become a tradition in this space, I shall now provide links to several, shall we say, viewing guides for tonight’s State of the Union Address. Said guides are provided as a service to the public (but not necessarily a […]
