How do you say "Yoo" and "Cheney" in Farsi?Obama's "Harry and Louise"
"What-EV-errrr" Dep't
The dancers vs. those who cannot hear the music
From his lips to Allah's ears
Waxman-Malarkey
Bleg: quotation source
Insured, but medically bankrupt
"Common ground" and the political high ground
Franken wins -- but what's the remedy?
Idle query
Best Health Care System in the World
The Ricci Decision: A Proposed Deal for Conservatives
Dana Milbank, Fiction Writer
Don Jorge charges at windmills
Los Angeles Times: The Nation's Worst Newspaper
Positive Train Control
The distasteful vs. the catastrophic: Iran edition
Guicciardini on Iran
Green jobs and climate
Um, remind me why Waxman-Markey is so important
Two kinds of consistency
The continuing Saudi-American cover-up of 9/11
Fish wrapper Dep't
Homage to Tehran
Why it's a mistake to call Mark Sanford a hypocrite
When do you sacrifice a policy hit for a principle?
Science and the planet sold out for a bowl of grits
An Obama effect in Iran?
Why I'm rooting for Moussavi
My love note to the DSCC
Barack Obama and the First Poker Lesson
Organ donation policies: a dissent
A question on the "Cheerful" News from Iran
Cheerful news from Iran
How to increase organ donation
Macaulay on "enhanced interrogation"
In a nutshell
Why should it matter whether same-sex couples can marry (as opposed to having civil unions or registered domestic partnerships)? and why should a mainstream bar association care?
Am I the only one who finds it funny ...
A real conservative speaks on Obama and Iran
Will the troops refuse to fire?
Mousavi and Obama on the violence in Iran
More on biofuels and legislating against science
Promises, promises!
American Politics Pop Quiz: Health Care Edition
"Ahmadinejad is the Bush of Iran. And Mousavi is the Obama of Iran."
A Muslim Attorney General
Big climate mischief
Political cyber-war
Distinguo
In a nutshell
Newt Gingrich, Zombie Politician
Scarborough on Iran
Khamene'i: the prophet armed?
Muntz as Nemo
"An army of Davids"
Simple-answers-to-simple-questions Dep't
Voight's Dog-Whistle: Start Counting
Keep moving, folks
Voight's deadly dog-whistle
Sexism and the Financial Crisis
Is Ahmadi-nejad using Arabs to fight his own people?
"Une revolte? Non, Sire, c'est une revolution."
Tehran in India: The Sound of Silence
Crime and drugs: Is the ice starting to break?
Bad news from Iran?
Recovery, Inflation, and Oil
Inflationary Pressure? Remember William Goldman
The Iranian election and what it means
The Uighurs Find a Home -- Finally
Another victim of the non-existent right-wing terrorist threat
Adverse selection, cross-subsidy, and a public health plan option
The terrorists win one
Gingrich and the privative theory of paganism
The book of Genesis: on not beginning at the Beginning
"UP"
Foreign Policy is not Pretty: India-Pakistan Edition
"The best soldier for our side"
A note on the banality of confirmation
Prejudice regained
Introducing Lesley Rosenthal
Context
Just sayin'
Geese & Ganders: Excerpts from a Quick Read of Judge Sotomayor's Judicial Questionnaire
An Economic Naturalist's Field Guide
Law enforcement and domestic terrorism
Cory Booker, superstar
Very different people
Judge Sotomayor's Record of Forging Consensus, Predicting High Court Outcomes
Unrepentant
Department of "Huh?"
Arguments and incitements
Feldstein on cap-and-trade
Marcus Epstein?
Right to death?
About that "right-wing extremists" report
If you've ever said "Abortion is murder" ...
Domestic (non-Islamic) Terrorism Kills Again
Carbon Offsets: Better than Critics Think?
Wise but Irresponsible Counsel on Detainee Policy Beyond Guantanamo
Richard Clarke Answers Cheney
The Sotomayor hearings
Deaf, dumb and blind spooks
Sotomayor and rhetoric
Diversity
Affirmative action in the Ivies
Dick Cheney: Portrait of a Sadist
Is Fundamental Health Care Reform Politically Impossible?
Language Police Twitter Edition
Nudging Proposition 8: What the Court Should Have Done With Same-Sex Marriage
How To Deal with Bibi: Ignore Him
"Never try to teach a pig to whistle ...
Conservatives discover happiness
In memoriam Mark M. Richard
More on "testament"
Make that the world's Twenty-FOURTH Best Economist
A REAL argument against Sotomayor
Busting the Latest Ridiculous anti-Sotomayor Meme
Putting the Homeland into Homeland Security
The Greatest Woman in the World
Another Conservative Finds Waterboarding is Torture
Barack Obama as Dirty Harry
Annals of mishegas
On not fearing death: a case study, with reflections
Truth and consequences
More on spiritual healing...
Placebo, attitude, and health
Mind, body, and medicine
Annals of the car society
Can positive thoughts injure another person?
Short-Run and Long-Run Stimulus in a Single Measure
"Can positive thoughts heal another person?"
The Ultimate Tax on Harmful Activity?
In which I get language-policed
More high-religiosity child molesting
From the language police blotter: testaments and testimonies
The Gitmo Quandary
More on gas taxes
Would a Carbon Tax Make Higher Gasoline Taxes Unnecessary?
Cap and Trade vs. a Carbon Tax
Cap and Trade vs. a Carbon Tax
Sunshine, the necessary disinfectant
The Uighurs at Guantanamo
Why Spending Cuts Aren’t the Answer
The Reverse Nuremberg Defense
Measures 1A-1F
A Disturbing Thought on the Dawn Johnsen Nomination
How to Promote Greater Reliance on Market Pricing
The end of the Tamil Tigers?
"The government wins its case when justice is done."
Earthquake
"Their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind"
Obama at Notre Dame
IRBs as research censors
Big win for the Congress Party in India
Choosing the argument
Cash for Clunkers?
The drug war is over
Republicans for the Carbon Tax
"That Jew"
More Insta-bullsh*t
Uh-oh
Judging and empathy
More on Interrogation
Interrogation Nation
Learning to Interrogate Effectively
Jesse Ventura on Waterboarding
What If Torture Worked?
Cheech and Chong mathematics
Unfair to fraudsters?
Vouchers and fancy private schools
Nullification and secession
Bill Schneider on the Republican Party and pragmatism
Concerning non-physical properties
Risk, media, parenting, and land use policy
When Brute Force Fails
Freeman Dyson
Afterthoughts on Carbon Charge vs. Cap-and-Trade
"Thou shalt not be as the hypocrites"
Was torture "necessary"?
Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Tax
On Sotomayor
The lemons model and fake antiquities
H.O.P.E. in Oregon
Photo-op cont.
Biden levels with AIPAC
"Yet bridges stand"
Re-telling Bishop Berkeley's joke: what's the point?
Ground shifting underfoot
Note to Republicans
AAUP on IRBs
"Crooked Timber" seminar on Steve Teles's book
Is Erick Erickson off his meds?
Jane Harman and Porter Goss
Shrinking the financial-services sector
On crime, a two-sided President
The IRB horror show
Tough guy
Religion and torture, polling and statistics
We have met the torturers and they is us?
A gentleman, and three other guys
More polling on pot
"Who cares? These are not Americans"
Condi Rice is not Richard Nixon
The REAL Reason Why the Tea Parties Were Stupid
Dallas DNA
What Senator Specter Owes Democrats and Majority Rule
Stopped Clock Department: Dowd on Cheney
A Photo-Op??
Filibustering Franken
Finally!
Positive-feedback loop
Specter switches
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
"The Invisible Hook"
What to do with the CIA
What if torture is necessary but illegal? Learning from Lincoln
Why does God hate Republicans?
"How to Win the War On Crime"
Don't Kill the CIA
A modern "three-fifths rule"
Texas asks for 37,000 doses of Tamiflu
Were torture supporters "moral cretins"?
Wealth and Welfare, (almost) centenary edition
No unilateral disarmament
"Steel-wheel interstates"
The California Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Zoombak and community corrections
Take the Money and Run
California Adopts Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
Resist Neatness in Dividing up the World
Expert views on whether torture yields information
A few bad apples
Cheney's Assertion that Torture Works: Hillary Nails It
Outrage, Patience, and Perspective all Needed re Bush Administration Torture
Q & A: Judge Hamilton
Smaller cars and insurance basics
Say what?
"College men from LSU...
Who Cares What the CIA Thinks?
Dropping the other shoe of national humiliation
Not exactly lying...
Bybee's Torture Memo: Time to Impeach?
Genesis 1:1-4: on not beginning at the Beginning.
Some Questions About Your Speech, Mr. President
Bleg: IRB horror stories
A Sad Legacy of George H.W. Bush - Reader Response
A Sad Legacy of George H.W. Bush
In defense of bad-faith negotiation
Happy Easter
Paying ransom should be prosecuted as a crime
THC-and-glioma update
Percy Jackson
A Mother Goose riddle
Calling General Scowcroft
Time for Democrats to Go on the Offensive in Minnesota
Dude, don't Bogart that cancer cure!
What do bribery and Prince Bandar have in common?
Does the GOP want to write off Minnesota for years?
The Real Mother Goose
Pancake City
Earthquake PS
I'm ashamed
More tooth, less pork
Phosphates etc.
TSAWTD II
Earthquakes don't kill people...
A Return to Nuclear Arms Control
The Next Spy Conspiracy Controversy?
More on the North Korean Launch
One up on Europe
Back to the drawing board!
Nudge
McArdle-Kleiman, Round 3
Donner Party anarchism
Joe Klein on drug legalization: same old same old
Explaining with simple tools
An end to tax havens and banking secrecy?
Worse than socialism?
A Good Pick at Treasury
Michelle Obama's liberation garden
Cass Sunstein Has Lost His Mind
A boat-is-a-hole-in-the-water-into-which-you-pour-money Dep't
Cannabis legalization as economic stimulus: a pipe dream
When is torture not torture?
Lesser breeds, without the law
Four dead policemen
Firedoglake Book Salon with Steve Teles
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't, torture division
Give them some money
Tilting at windmills
Maira Kalman is back!
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't: John Galt v. Bilbo Baggins
A "bankster" speaks
More polling on cannabis
Greely on cognitive enhancers
Network Reportial Ignorance, Presidential Press Conference Edition
Zero tolerance and sanity
Ben-Gurion Spins in His Grave
The vex'd Bermoothes
What do the editors of JAMA have in common with the Pope?
That Special Olympics Faux Pax
Another financial scandal; time for a change at Treasury?
Hope in Zimbabwe?
Boycott the Dodgers?
Credible Accusations in Gaza
Second thoughts on "grow your own pot"
Another court win for another ayahuasca church
"No dogs or Irish"
Confession
Gavin Newsom makes a good first impression
Good Riddance, Chas Freeman
Potential Jiu-jitsu: Offer Barghouti for Shalit
The higher a monkey climbs the better you can see his ...
Ed Glaeser Should Get Out More
Seminar at UC Berkeley
Whatever works
Happy Birthday Albert E.
Ross Douthat promotes 12,000 murders per year
Getting it right
Legalization debate
Taking the pledge
Benedict Arlen?
One more drug-legalization debate [UPDATED]
Staffing Up Treasury: What Price Elizabeth Warren?
Ari Fleischer is a Moral Cretin
Is Earmark Reform Legal?
From his mouth to God's ears
New ONDCP leadership
Legal query
4-5 million lost votes
Getting to 60
Arrogance
"Republican Socialism"
National Smart Growth/Land Use Policy Coming Soon?
Baked babies, lobbyists, and the fundamental attribution error
"It's-an-ill-wind" Dep't
No more earmarks?
Human-factors engineering, baby-seat division
Not cricket
Another stimulus coming? Feldstein says we need one
A "police surge"?
Barbarians
In a nutshell
Everyone's a Victim: The Coulterization of Middle East Discourse
Yes, they do call it the WORLD-WIDE web
Executive summary
Caught red-handed
In Defense of Rush Limbaugh
Why did Obama write that letter to Medvedev?
Bobby Steele gives Rush Limbaugh Kim Il Sung's title
We're Number One!
Parole the Palestinian Refugees
Newspapers, music, video, transit, and parks
Executive pay
No, they can't both be right ...
Ben Smith shows how it's done
Barack Obama channels George Aiken
"Survival jobs": Tales of the downwardly mobile
Rush Limbaugh, albatross
Jindal and Reagan
Two Cheers for Clean Coal
Jindal down?
Huckabee self-destructs as a national candidate
Wards of the state
Does Woodward-Hall beat straight nationalization?
Truths of competition and fallacies of composition
Chickens, meet roost
Trade and National Greatness
The Incredible Shrinking Bobby Jindal
Oakeshott and De-Regulation and Social Security-- Just askin'
National greatness liberalism? Not so fast.
Would Oakeshott fear Obama?
A liberalism of national greatness
Sari Nusseibeh's new peace plan: let the people vote on it
Good bank, bad bank: Woodward and Hall have the solution
Greasing the skids
Minnesota: Where's the outrage?
Annals of sexist oppression
Calling Rahm Emanuel
TSAWTD
Out of the asylum, into the prison?
A belated Darwin's-Birthday present
Legalizing cannabis: is the ground shifting?
Wine and cheese with John Yoo
Yale Law School Hates America
Shorter Mark and Hilzoy
Letter to the Washington Post
The GOP's Four Corners: Nuke 'em
The Akond of Detroit
Is Ray LaHood trying to subsidize gas guzzlers?
Where's the outrage?
Dumb Economic Idea of the Day
On the OPR torture report
Nationalizing the banks
The German flu epidemic
Dismal Chart
OPR torture memo report coming?
Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Hunger)*
Merchants of fear
Unite your friends, divide your foes
More advice on drug policy
Global-warming denialism as a conspiracy theory
Another round of mendacity (or lunacy) on global warming
Israeli Elections: Worse than a crime....
Swallows in Saudi
A Valentine trip down memory lane
Winning beats losing
Animal Spirits
The forgotten anniversary
Another Republican Bites Obama's Outreached Hand
Votes for Women!
Stereotypes about Los Angeles and sprawl
Snail-mailing representatives in a crisis: up to a point
Happy Birthday, Father Abraham!
Advice for the new "drug czar"
Political meetings, old and new.
Why not both?
The central economic policy issue concerning stimulus negotiations
A fair question
Bipartisan like a fox
Simple Answers to Simple Questions -- Stimulus Edition
True Bipartisanship on the Stimulus
Lefties
Ice cream in honor of the Beloved Leader
Ralph's Pretty Good Stimulus: A Missed Opportunity
Call the fire department, not the arsonists
Medical cannabis and the culture wars
Professional-responsibility final exam question ...
Nuremberg Proposition 8
Glibertarianism
Republican Stimulus Hypocrisy
Quote of the Decade
Ready to go.
Why Does Larry Summers Want to Accelerate Climate Change?
Thou shalt not commit protectionism
Change we can't quite yet believe in
Spadework on the stimulus
Simple Answers to Stupid Questions--Health Care Edition
Hardball Time: Ditch the Stimulus
Justice Thomas, it's time for your close-up.
Post-Partisan Standards for Political Discourse
Dr Flintstone
DEMON SPAWN OF THE STIMULUS
What Mark's Stimulus Primer Glosses Over
A stimulus primer
Barack Obama: America's Leading Liberal
Against stupidity ....
Can we have our public health prevention stuff back in the stimulus, please?
LA Times: The Nation's Worst Newspaper
Wish-I'd-said-that-MORE-dep't
Wish-I'd-said-that dep't
The Case for Daschle
Happy Groundhog Day
"He just fell into crime"
Straightforward?
A Super Bowl Thought
"Whoever controls the present controls the past ...
More on a Judd Gregg Replacement
Sunday rhinoceros blogging
Daschle: too heavy a weight to carry
Priorities
Shorter Christy Romer
Agreeing with Mark on Judd Gregg's replacement
A Democrat for the Senate in New Hampshire
If gays can't get married, should I get divorced?
Bin Laden not determined to attack the US after 9/11?
What Part of C + I + G doesn't the NY Times Understand?
Pascal's stimulus bet
Will the torturers get away with it?
Save the mad scientists
Andy Sabl on Schelling and Hume
More "voter fraud" fraud
Another CIA Clandestine Service Scandal
House Republicans vote unanimously for depression
Can the Highway Lobby Be Beaten?
Obama Administration Should be Clearer About Republican Ideological Blinders
The Rove subpoena
Truth in advertising
More on Transit in the Stimulus
Just a thought: private jets and airport landing fees
Engaging India on Climate
The Awesome Power of the Blogosphere
The Best News of the Month
Responsibility without Guilt: A Proposed Palestinian Refugee Narrative
Who's going to prosecute the torture cases?
Crime and drug policy in the new Administration
Rorschach test
The seven years' wait is over
Orin Kerr on Obama's dictatorial powers
Ledbetter bill clears Senate
What Happened to Transit in the Stimulus?
Sentencing Obama
Does anybody really know who the Commerce Secretary is?
Jeff Weintraub on Obama and the civic-republican tradition
Cornyn, Holder, torture, and the obstruction of justice
President Obama, civic republican
Nitpicking the Inaugural Address-- a counting question
The missing word
$500k worth of ugly china for the White House
John Cornyn Begins His Presidential Campaign
The Inaugural Address
The Inaugural: first thoughts
Rick Warren
The Missing Preacher at the Inaugural
"Brethren of a single principle," updated
Crosses and vampires
Obama, Jefferson, and the Inaugural Address
Springtime in Florence
Needed: Israeli and Jewish Efforts for Gaza Victims
Obama and McCain
What would you say to Obama?
Krugman's letter to Obama
Celestial spheres
Speech and silence: Wittgenstein v. Augustine?
Plato and pedagogy
Are lifejackets a waste of money?
In-my-dreams dep't: what Holder might have said to Cornyn
I love Rick Sanchez
Jefferson and Plato: updates
Quit-while-you're-behind Dep't
"The United States does not torture"
Shorter John Roberts
The Scottish Enlightenment and Greek literature
Yet Another Thought Experiment
Just (war) So stories
Can state prosecutors indict Bush?
Knesset Bans United Arab List and Balad from Elections
A modest proposal for dealing with the torture problem
Dedication
Ends, Means, and International Law
Whales, fish, and analytic propositions
More on Burris
EMR in a hurry: snafu ahead
Jordan and Palestine: The Zombie Lives!
A Useful Climate Step From India
Rick Warren, moderate
Post-partisan amity: a one-way street?
Nate Silver Makes an Egregious Factual Error
Goya on Gaza
Digital media again/still
Seat Burris--if not appointed by Blago
Spookism: A dissent.
A Fair and Balanced Gaza Post: Madoff-Mandela Edition
The Gupta Nomination: Getting the Troops Ready on Health Care
Norm Coleman Provides a Lesson for the Legal Profession
"The United States does not torture"
Gaza: What Should Israel Have Done?
Elections Have Consequences Redux
Elections have consequences
"Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture"
Leon Panetta
Helping plains apes forage for brain food
The proper study of mankind is man
How to Get Franken Seated Now: Nuclear Joe Biden
Deaccessioning and the Dry Store Room
Enough: Time for a ceasefire
De-accessioning: a very partial dissent
Selling from museum collections
A Question for Zbigniew Brzezinski
Humph! Meow! - and more than nine lives
Sneak attack of the Time Lords!
Making Blago a shoe-in
Worthwhile transition initiative
The Burris problem and what to do about it
Killing the Bush Midnight Regulations: A Litigation Strategy?
Who's going to call Sarah Palin's grandson "illegitimate"?
Obama, Scrooge, and Luxury Fever
The bishop and the banker
Two More Comments on The Situation
Not futility; honesty
For a Terrorist Watch List Review Board
File under: "Coleman, own petard, hoisted with"
Here's a good idea: Fully fund Medicaid waivers to the cognitively disabled
What Do You Mean, "Solve It"?
Humbug, Sir, humbug
Israel-Palestine, Again
Happy holidays - but few
Sauce for the goose, sauce for the Peretz
The Viagra Maneuver
Catastrophe
He shore do talk purty, don't he?
Tom Friedman and public goods for the rich
"Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran," revisited
Not entirely shameless
Fact-independent economics
The LA Times' Editors' Heads Explode
Dr Scrooge's Christmas list
More "war on Christmas" b.s.
Sexual perversion
Deflation
Hillary's State Department Changes: Two Comments
Wes Clark's Disappearance: The Gay Angle
Why Has Wes Clark Disappeared?
A management pro for State
Little boys
Worldwide Labo(u)r Conspiracy, Take 2
National Security: Obama's Missing Man
Happy solstice!
Shorter McCain-Lieberman-Graham
Master of the subtle shout-out
Tom Vilsack, Climate, and Agriculture: The Opportunity
The Jimmy Durante Stimulus: Let's Eradicate Malaria
Worldwide Labo(u)r Conspiracy
The evil tongue
Fair's fair
Those whom God hath joined ...
Ezra Klein on "card check"
Impeachment (or expulsion) first, prosecution later
P.J. O'Rourke to his fellow conservatives
Auto bailout: why hit the workers and not the dealers?
Enough is enough, already!
Optimism
Criticizing Obama: actions v. character
Warren press handout
More reflections on Rick Warren
You can't make this stuff up
Ross Douthat on torture and "torture-lite"
Religion-of-peace Dep't
Two views of the Minnesota recount and lawsuit
Vilsack and Biofuels
Rick Warren?!!
Lesley Friedman Rosenthal on arts policy
Five Questions About the Stimulus
Note to Developing World: The Cavalry Isn't Coming
Stimulus, science, and the Democrats
The Politics of Child Poverty
Progressives and Trade Policy
The Missing Piece on the Energy/Environment Team
Karl Rove v. Eric Holder: Stranger Than Fiction
The GOP Channels Monty Python
If only Bush and Cheney had read Hume!
Glenn Reynolds, multiculturalist
What should the new Administration know about drugs?
These boots are made for throwin'
A quiet hero, under siege
Dealing with risk
The dollar auction in action
Religious fanatics with nukes
Incentive management and the Madoff affair
Dumb user meets smart grid
A Spit-out-your-coffee Moment
Is Blago "disabled"?
Another Czar?
Of Prop. H8 and boycotts: response to Maggie Gallegher
Leverage
Charles Krauthammer on Obama's ambition
Glenn Reynolds and the brown acid
Minnesota recount
Lectures from Weimar
A $50 billion Ponzi scheme?
Auto Bailout Talking Points
Political etymology
They-hate-us-for-our-freedom Dep't
The John Milton Christmas Special
An electoral-college lock?
Six Degrees of Rod Blagojevich
The Statue of Despotism
Labor's dilemma on Education Secretary
The drug warriors are (also) stuck on stupid
Judicial filibusters and the Gang of Fourteen
The Bush-Ahmadinejad Alliance
Something for Republicans to Think About
Movement Conservatism Revealed
Pakistani government goes after the terrorists
Another "anti-prohibition" essay: s.s., d.d.
Stuck Around St. Petersburg
The Carter Presidency: an exchange
The free market in gender-benders
The rise of partisan judging
The Sudanese Government is unhappy and afraid...
All together now: against the ISI
The price of victory
James I and Jimmy Carter: separated at birth?
Blacks and gays: let's not play "You and him fight"
Hume and the history of policy analysis
Hilzoy on Ayers
Fast start, short honeymoon
Gaps in the 100 days
Your peer-group professional associations at work
A pogrom
Obama proclaims the Newer Deal
Wallflowers II: Where's the Science Adviser?
Stiglitz Watch: Where's the Love?
Constitutional monarchy
Climate Change Treaties: Bring Your Lawyer
Blame Canada
The Spanish Inquisition
Card Check and Union Coercion
Pirates of the Arabian XI
Brilliant!
Martin gets crushed in Georgia
Hatchet Job on Eric Holder in the NYT
Understatement of the day
Environmental economics 101
Stories-of-the-great-operas Dep't
Truth, or consequences?
Roadblock on the energy/environment team?
Retribution and the mask of Athena
Tide power at a nickel per kwh?
De-politicizing the military
The Upcoming Stimulus Package: A Warning From Harry Hopkins
A house for HaShem and the House of David
The Great Krugman-Mankiw Debate
Shop till you drop somebody
What I learned at Thanksgiving Dinner
Seeking a position as necromancer
The Mumbai bombings and the U.S. stake in an India-Pakistan deal
A Job for Biden: Go to India
Bending the Ark
Tanakh notes: 2 Sam. 6
Catholic Hospitals, Abortion and FOCA
An Even More Cynical Defense of Background
In defense of "background"
Stiglitz Watch, Day Two: How About the World Bank?
Mark Warner steps up to the plate for Jim Martin
Clock's Ticking
Abortion Reduction Legislation and Evangelicals
Obama's Economic Team: The Missing Man
Now, the Energy-Environment Team?
Tanakh notes: 2 Sam. 5:6-end
Stimulus, Consumption, and Charity
Still pissing on FDR's grave
Suckers!
Does Hillary Clinton really want to be Salmon Chase?
Notes on 2 Sam 5:1-5
Gaffe
Slow learner
Hillary, Richardson and the Separation of Powers
The missing Brains Trust
This Is Not A Blog Post
Deep Thought: Lame Duck Edition
Questions re Janet Napolitano
Conservatives are from radio. Liberals are from...?
Exhale
Precedent
What winning looks like: health care division
"Black hole" justice needs cleaning up by...yes, Le Temps said it.
What Populism Is Not
Ouch
A populist substitute for farm subsidies
Another note on Lieberman: the Jeffords precedent
Buggins' good turn
Holder as AG: Here We Go
Muzzle all the lobbyists? Not allowed (unfortunately).
International law query
The auto bailout: a plea for ruthlessness
Hillary in the Cabinet: why not DOD or Justice?
Generational change?
Circular Firing Squad of Rivals?
There's a reason they call it "Article I"
GOP suicide watch
Retraction: Goldman, Sachs and California munis
What's wrong with torture-chamber cartoons?
College sports I can be down with
Summum on causation
The Ritual Self: Reaching for the Sacred with No Help from God
My candidacy for drug czar
Obama's jiu-jitsu: Iranian edition
Latest religio-legal comedy: the Seven Aphorisms of Summum
Bayh on Lieberman: Round and round we go
Ursine self-interest
Polar bears disgorge ballots
Ethical problems
Monitoring Gitmo releasees
A Georgia Senate candidate runs *toward* Obama
Six feet of cyberspace
Another beautiful theory slain by a gang of ugly facts
I know you are but what am I?
No shortage of B.S. (or B.S.E.)
Soft power in action
Is cruelty to children a family value?
From the Language Police blotter: "dilemma"
Don't bail out US automakers
Picking Obama's Secretary of Education
Ask-me-a-hard-one Dep't
A dog for the Obamas
Prop. 8 post-mortem
Sleeping Beauty
The President and his Chief of Staff: Shock and Awe
More on John Lewis and Prop 8
John Lewis and Prop. 8 - Huh?
A simple question about Blacks, Gays, and Prop 8
The Mayor of Simpleton
Seating plans and the exercise of power
Snoozeum
Moat monsters
Friday dog blogging
Saruman trashing Hobbiton on the way out
Who cares what they think?
Does it matter if America is popular?
More fulminations about football
Circular firing squad forms up
The polar bear ate your ballot
Broder Self-Parody Watch
Spirit-of-generosity Dep't
It's funny 'cause it's true
Merkley pulls ahead
Weld for Attorney General
Obama's tax cuts: Progressive. Redistributive. Spending.
Appalachian Fall
The Problem with Summers
Character-is-destiny Dep't: Michael Moore and Joe Lieberman
A $640 downpayment
A shadow cast over a very good day, but not a rainout
Note to wingnut pundits
Ladies and gentlemen, the President-elect
Baruch atah ha-shem...
The Battle Hymn
Florida for Obama
McCain's concession
Mass. income tax
Eulogy for John McCain
It's official
February 12, 2009
Too bad ...
NOW It's Over
Over?
Trending
Indiana looking good
Hints?
"Black Panther" voter intimidation in Philadelphia
Time zones
Field report
Follow-through
an eighth is enough
EMR in the Hundred Days
Heartwarming
Kool-aid drinkers
Dixville Notch to pundits: "Wilder? Who's he?"
"Negative flakeout rate"
The Hundred Days of the Newer Deal
Mild consolation
The Unbwogable!
"No one's as Irish as Barack O'Bama"
Brian Jenkins on nuclear terrorism and nuclear terror
"Sarah" and "Nicholas"
Latest viral anti-Obama rant
Gay-baiting in Kentucky
Hear me, I gloat!
Fearless prediction
Alternating currents
You have to laugh; otherwise you'd scream
Learn-something-new-every-day Dep't: Sarah Palin's First Amendment rights
"The Good Housekeeping seal of approval"
Wingnut civics (Spanish edition)
Political malpractice
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"
John McCain: Cool and consistent
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Laying off the Obama voters
Factor of safety = 0.95
More socialists for Obama
California dreaming?
"A gauzy, feel-good commercial"
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
Ouch! McCain pwned by ... Larry King?!
California Initiatives and Transit
Bill Clinton on Barack Obama
The infomercial
Admiring the Israeli Political Class
The Best Political Piece of the Year
Tragedy doesn't scale
California ballot measures: Kevin Drum explains it all for you
McCain's "Redistributionist" Complaint
"Mac" Mathias endorses Obama
How could Obama lose this election?
Obama and Redistribution: The Logical Inference
Ignoring mpg
What's the difference ...
The spirit of '96
Three Ashleys
The threat of domestic terrorism
Public programs for the prosperous
Now that Sen. Stevens is a convicted felon ...
Hadn't thought of it that way
It's-opera-it-isn't-supposed-to-make-sense Dep't
Everyone-that-doeth-evil-hateth-the-light Dep't
Grown-ups converge
Reading lesson
Pretty thin gruel
Casey, I'd like to dedicate this one to Satan
"Incoherent"
The Financial Times goes socialist
More Republican thuggery
Clock running down
College Republicans fingered in Ashley Todd affair
Just say no to crack
Accreditation
Licenses
"Criminal in nature"
I youda ast me, I could toldja
Early voting: looking good
"A sweetheart deal"
What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
Race, desperation, and Ashley Todd
"Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over"
Concerning domestic terrorism
Palling around with even more terrorists
Indicators
More than one kind of courage
The Babe Ruth Principle and Palin's make-up artist
Words fail
The last shoe drops
Voter intimidation
Those fake-name contributions to Obama: yes, they're crimes
Hoax
Legal query
What happened to Ashley Todd?
Aid and comfort without an enemy
"Garbage in, garbage out"
Real v. fake Americans?
Incitatus kicks over the traces
Prosecution, please.
Did al-Qaeda just endorse McCain?
Progress
Heat
Obama and Prop. 8
Sarah Palin, dressed for failure
Saul Alinsky meets Booz, Allen
Precedent
Getting to 60
Timeline
Childish
60 percent of early voters are Democrats
Amazing!
Who spilled the beans?
Yes, it's possible to go too far ...
The Fayetteville Outrage
Feminists come in all flavors
"Dog bites man"
Management matters
Congratulations to Michelle Malkin
Reducing medical over-consumption
Probably an al Qaeda sleeper
Saving gay marriage in California
Et tu, Dick?
Abuse of law enforcement powers for partisan ends
Another grown-up speaks
Don't mess with Jim Webb
Unreal estate
Executive experience
Whaddya know? Actual election fraud
The company he keeps
Death threats and vandalism
Requiem for a maverick
Let Der Spiegel Soar
List, please
Mismatch
Flash polls: Obama wins big
Liveblogging the last debate
Kids: the anti-McCain
How Obama Might Respond to the Ayers Attack
McCain's transition director lobbied for Saddam Hussein?
53-39?
The other election
When your "hero" calls you out...
Capital budgeting
Why does everything take so long?
Krugman's Nobel
What To Do With The Stimulus
When Harry met Citi
XXX-rated polling
Consumption, Investment, and the federal budget
Research funding and economic stimulus
The British plan
Lowered expectations
Why Does Anyone Listen to William Kristol?
Democrats "Emergency" Economic Plan: That's It?
From his lips to God's ears
The G-7 Meeting: A Huge Lost Opportunity
The smack of firm government in London
Mack trucks and Krug
Plate O' Shrimp
Palin at the Flyers: What the @#$%& Were They Thinking?
The real McCain?
No, the meltdown wasn't the result of giving mortgage loans to dark-skinned peoople
My God's bigger than your God!
My God could beat your God up with one hand tied behind him!
Weatherman prosecutor: hands off Obama
Unwelcome advice from a wise man
Fighting with your own weapons
Día de la Tranquilidad
Yes!
Obama was prepared
McCain and the "Arab"
OK, I give up
Hooligan behavior, partisan passion, and the fundamental attribution error
"Illegal" is a proper subset of "wrong"
Retraction
The conservative soul
Somebody tell Sarah Palin!
Equity, not just assets
Grown-ups vs. kooks
This IS Your Father's Republican Party
Foundations Should Increase Their Payouts
McCain’s Silly Argument for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
Keynes Returns From The Grave
Good news!
In a nutshell
ACORN defends itself
Hooligans
Barack O'Lantern
Overhead projector
Nul points
Yerevangelism
"A fatal cancer"
"My fellow prisoners"
Obama's army
The coming betrayal of the Armenians
Inside the Obama field operation
Sitting pretty
The Old Lady to the rescue
Astounding numbers
Snap polls: good news
Liveblogging post-mortem
Liveblogging XVIII
Liveblogging XVII
Liveblogging XVI
Liveblogging XV
Liveblogging XIV
Liveblogging XIII
Liveblogging XII
Liveblogging XI
Liveblogging X
Liveblogging IX
Liveblogging VIII
Liveblogging VII
Liveblogging VI
Liveblogging V
Liveblogging IV
Liveblogging III
Liveblogging II
Liveblogging the Debate
say no more, say no more
Marching through Georgia
One in four corrected
Political Reporters: Erratic in a Campaign
Down-ballot effects of presidential campaign strategies
Moral Hazard
Updated photo
Lemonade
"Who is the real Barack Obama?"
St. Pauli Girl
Worth 1000 words
"McCain Forgets How Many Glass Houses He Lives In"
Fine print
McCain's judgment and veracity as an aviator
SNL channels the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
What we're up against
GWB as James II
Krauthammer on Obama: "A first-class intellect, and a first-class temperament"
Latest Palin
"The same undisciplined, spoiled brat he was when he went in"
Compassion for conservatives
Public service hikmah
Palinflow
In praise of negative ads
Biden gets the Vice-Presidency wrong
Life-is-unfair Dep't
The (half)wit and (un)wisdom of Our Sarah
Parsing Palin
I'll call you
Out of the closet
Catch of the night
Debate afterthoughts
Liveblooging 11: post-mortem
Liveblogging 10
Liveblogging 9
LIveblogging 8
Liveblogging 7
Liveblogging 6
Liveblogging 5
Liveblogging 4
Liveblogging 3
Liveblogging 2
Liveblogging the debate
Can't-make-this-stuff-up Dept
McCain on Turtle Island: FALSE
The New Model Party
Giveaway
Friends, FYROMans, Countrymen
Character issue
Darth Vader's Fingerprints on the Garbage Pail
Decouple Fannie and Freddie?
Most Important Smart Growth Bill Ever
Avoiding responsibility, and buying callable assets
"Never argue with a fool ...."
Government as desperate measure
May I present H.E. the Ambassador of Lower Slobbovia
Speedreading
Some advice for Sarah Palin
A Conservative Newspaper for Obama
Prerogative weekend
Questions for John McCain
Epitaph for Movement Conservatism
Mean Old Nancy, Part II
Lame Duck
Mean Old Nancy
Obama on McCain: "We can't afford to gamble"
Days of (political) awe
Surreal
Magnitudes
More Silver Linings
Lucy snatches the football again
If Putin wills it, it is so
But what went wrong?
Silver Lining in the Bailout Bill
Reid hammers McCain
Bailout looking dicey?
Peer review under high pressure
The Burghers of Manhattan
Question for John McCain
The original Golden Fleece Award
Randy Travesty
Socialism in action
Pretty damned bad
Carl Bernstein on McCain's choice of Palin
Note to David Broder
Mash note
Yes, Rick Davis was still affiliated with Davis, Manafort
Allocating research funds v. allocating measurement resources
John McCain and Indian gaming
Commissions, bonuses, and the Battle of Blenheim
Research earmarks
Time to end this.
Skilled labor exploitation
Well matched
Mouths-of-babes Dep't
Parry-and-riposte
Extortion racket
Georgia, Russia, mutual restraint, and Scheunemann
Walking your talk Dep't
Master Debating Georgia
First poll results: Obama wins
McCain's rudeness
Key line I wanted to hear from Obama tonight
Debate, sort of live
Liveblogging the debate
You can't make this stuff up
"O you sanctimonious turkey!" Pt. II
No frogs in Alaska
Ross Douthat breaks the Blogger's Code
Note to Bill Clinton
Plan C
Tick-tock on a train wreck
Who is throwing dead cats in the reality machine?
Gov. Pants-on-fire and her cul-de-sac
Serious question
Note to Tina Fey
John McCain and the "turkey" memo
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
I'm forming a new PAC
ANOTHER Cave? No Deal
"A conspiracy so vast ... "
Virtual financial particles
Malignant narcissism
What McCain was trying to bury
Obama today
Palin as a post turtle:
McCain's "suspension": the Obvious Analogy
Random thoughts on McCain's stochastic move
McCain thinks politics is a dirty distraction -- Of course he's projecting
All the spin money can buy?
What makes garbage garbage?
Sports and character
Obama 52, McCain 43
Bailouts and really big bailouts
Scary Palin Thought of the Day
Hardball
Abracadabra
Pompous, Self-Serving Sons-of-Bitches for John McCain
Precedent
A Krugmanite tweak to the Dodd plan
The sacrifice
The market for lemons and the Garbage Pail Agency
Sarah Palin, slime artist
Train wreck coming?
Sarah Palin Meets With Afghan President Karzai
Clowning and geeking in politics
Pitchforks, please.
Maybe we SHOULD fire Chris Cox
The Spanish Prisoner moves from Lagos to Washington
The Dodd bill
Note to Steve Schmidt
Semi-Almost-Sort-of-Non-Wanker of the Day
Shorter Rick Davis
Time to get medieval
Telephone banking in a hurricane
Plan D
Note to Henry Paulson
Two million smackers
The name of the rose manure
Missing Bayard Rustin
Enough
A hopeful thought about Garbage Pail politics
Check your voter registration
Obama on the Garbage Pail: "No blank check."
"As usual, substituting vehemence for coherence"
Urban legend warning
"Cheerleader for a team of arsonists"
Designing the Garbage Pail Agency: percentage proffering
Writing cheques
Does anyone like this deal?
Thought for the day
The road to nowhere
Theft and transfer
"New Deal or no deal"?
Paulson channels Cheney
Green government in California
Generators and the median tinkerer
More on value
Real money
How come no generators?
Sunk costs and recoverable costs: the bailout
Rape kits and innocent men
Better to be silent ...
"Yes, thanks," to a dead-end road
Unbeforkinglievable
John. McCain. Does. Not. Understand. The. Job. He. Is. Running. For.
Wanted: 20,000 tons of opium
Pat Robertson, lunatic
Of candidates and hemispheres
Albatross flavor
McSpain explained
Keep Paulson On?
Remind you of anybody?
Palin and rape kits: more "right to life"?
Arbitrage
Is glossolalia infectious?
Garbage pail
First dude, lawbreaker
Conservative = Wuss
The sort of lede we love to read
Waste, fraud, abuse, infantilism, and magical thinking
John McCain, financial idiot
Another Burkean for Obama
Impersonation
Dep't of "Howwzat again?"
John McCain as Bob Dole
Rich narcissists for McCain
McCain, Limbaugh, Forests, and Trees
McCain's Spanish blunder
Fundamentalists
The Financial Crisis and the Failure of Regulation
First things first
Another departure from the McCain "base"
Modification
The Rain in Spain--news to John McCain
Patience rewarded
Presidential Experience and Intelligence
Executive experience
Hitting his stride
You can't make this stuff up...de Rothschild edition
"Panic" v. "meltdown"
Can you see Russia from the Senate Commerce Committee?
Excuses, excuses
Against the "symmetry of sin"
Quitting-while-you're-behind Dep't
The AIG bailout, moral hazard, and regulation
"The fundamentals of our economy are strong"
The Experience No One is Talking About
McCain's Responsibility for the Financial Meltdown
What foreign policy?
Social Security
John McCain, liar extraordinaire
AIG, insurance reserves, and the "fool-me-once" principle
Palin As Political Crack
The fog and the field
McCain thinks Kissinger and Jim Baker are naive and irresponsible
John McCain, inventor of the BlackBerry
Will the real John McCain please stand up?
McCain's Record on Defense Procurement: Pugnacious but Counter-Productive
Equal pay
"The Ugly New McCain": Richard Cohen is off the reservation
Crime and spin
Question for Democrats to ask voters
"Lobbyists for McCain" website
David Brooks is a grown-up
"Senator, what economy are you talking about?"
"John McCain's Journey From Maverick to Liar"
Abolish the drinking age? Only if you raise alcohol taxes.
Small Town Values, Republican Style
McCain-Palin as Herbert Hoover
Moose hunting
"The truth be damned"
Biden's speech
The Party of Sound Business Principles
More straight talk
Tippecanoe and Palin too
Why won't the VA provide service dogs for wounded warriors?
Strategery
Sell short
Leadership We Can Believe In
Profile in ... something
If their lips are moving ...
Blegging for bus fare: Obama canvassers in Iowa
Challenge to David Bernstein
"A toxic mix of lies and double-speak"
Optimism
The themes
Yep, that's the question, all right.
Preparation
One in four
Sarah Palin's "visit to Iraq"
"Wait a minute"
Yes, "barracuda" just about covers it
Remember Harold Wilson
Republican Family Values
Deep Thought of the Day
"Doesn't McCain want our children to protect themselves from sex offenders?"
Disrespecting the dead
Lying, or out of touch?
The pit bull
Swing state cartoonists and bloggers: not fooled
Challenge
9/11 and the Presidential Election
"McCain lies": AP edition
A moose in the headlights
Asleep at the Switch
Pretending to cry: When will the media laugh the faux outrage off the stage?
Deep Thought of the Day
Morale and air power
Lipstick, cont'd
Let 'em put some lipstick on THIS pig
Media Stupidity in Physics and Politics
Has McCain gone a bridge too far?
Obama's 100 days
There is no cause for worry
McCainish-to-English dictionary
Sarah Palin, the rapists' friend
John McCain, man of dishonor
McCain and the pedophile vote
Passionate wonkery
"Evidence of consciousness of guilt"
Qualifications
Zipper ads
Sleazy chiselers
Anatomy of a bogus email
Don't Panic
Temper, temper!
“Know your body. Know your mind. Know your substance. Know your source."
The national electricity grid
Is it "shallow" to worry about McCain's character?
Terminological inexactitude
You might be a liberal if ...
Bristol for Veep!
Screenwriter wanted for viral video
More presumption by John McCain
If you must run, learn to sit
Percentages
Foreign Policy and the Next President
Sarah Palin, reformer
Opportunity cost: troops in Iraq can't be in Afghanistan
Purely a mental recession
Strategy
Tough
Bounce Forward, Bounce Back
Just Asking. Part II.
Note to Sarah Palin
Liveblogging McCain
Yes, he said it
Unbef*ckinglievable!
Are Sarah Palin and John Hagee soulmates?
Community organizers
Why does the GOP hate Catholics?
Just Asking
Gov. Palin and "Obama"
Thumbs-on sex education
Palin at the 2006 Alaska Independence Party Convention
Palin v. Reality
What we've learned
Liveblogging Palin
Shameless liar
Calling all journalists
Secretary Rice?
Bizarre!
Looking forward to 2012
Palin, responsibility, and borrowing
McCain, Palin, and the Augean Party
Well, at least it's true
Modern Political Discourse
Palin and "The Logic of the Situation"
Palin's Popularity in Alaska--paid for by petrodollars
"Legal action will be considered"
Incentive management
True
Consultant Speak -- Usages to Avoid
"This is cynical"
"A loveable woman, but an appalling candidate"
Content analysis
Taming the maverick
Random thought
Friedman on McCain: anti-green, objectively pro-Russian
"Thrill-seeking personality"
Contrast
Reform vs. Change?
Blegging for buses
Two more self-contradictions in the Palin nomination
Hadn't thought of it that way
National unity department
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
Testy, testy!
Dan Froomkin on "objective" journalism and dumb politicians' tricks
Slogans for Democrats
Shorter Joe Lieberman
Yet more Palin
Sarah Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party
Alaska and the Bear
Dreaming of Post-Ovary Politics
Post-Palin polling
Palace intrigues
Right!
Cohen refuses the Kool-Aid
Further proof of the existence of God
"Ya think?" dep't
Sarah Palin's membership in the Alaskan Independence Party
Summary
Does Sarah Palin Hate the United States?
Obama's luck
Planning v. luck
On Headwear, Republican and Otherwise
Sarah Palin and Alaskan secessionism
More fibbing from the McCain camp
Obama on Science
Obama asks for Gustav help
How likely is it that Palin would have to take over?
The gift that keeps on giving
Redemption...
IOKIYAR: Family Values Edition
Musico-literary footnote
McCain and "experience": Just kidding!
"Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard"
Poker and craps are not Tweedledum and Tweedledee
"To the cave where he lives"
The options
Russian Roulette goes to video
Three years ago this week ...
Ummmm ... folks?
Huffington Post 1, Washington Post 0 (maybe)
"Ouch!" dep't (Palin section)
What Ted Kennedy could teach John McCain about politics and human life
More on BridgeToNowhereGate: The Road to Nowhere
"Abortion rights and pay equity"
Helping v. grandstanding
Heather Mac Donald on Palin as a "diversity" candidate
"6 things Palin pick says about McCain "
Lust and envy
Waiting
THAT'S a relief!
Uch, mir!
Gov. LSoS (R-AK)
Country first
Happy birthday, Lyndon!
Doesn't sound like "reform" to me
Ewww ... ick!
"Mr. McCain's judgment"
Is that what you call *compassionate* conservatism?
Palin Quote of the Day
Fired police chief calls Palin a liar
The bitter enders
38 million
Five (Relatively) Contrarian Thoughts on Sarah Palin
Palin: the stuff keeps pilin' up
A Palin expert speaks
Beyond thin
Bridge to Somewhere
Piling on
More on Palin
Mortality
Fun facts to know and tell
Best line so far about Obama's acceptance speech
Sarah Palin?
National Security Politics
"Time for them to own their failure"
Where did these speeches come from?
Note to Sen. McCain
Bill Richardson scores
The moral case for a cap-and-trade on greenhouse gasses
Question
Losing his Teflon?
Defining misfortune down
Rove v. Lieberman
Bill Clinton, Kerry, Biden
HRC gets it
McCain qualifications in brief
Clinton's speech, and others
Wishful thinking Dep't
John McCain, former POW
Post-Partisan Partisanship
Walter Mears, the AP's resident ghoul
False opposition: boosting Obama v. knocking McCain
HRC scores!
Oh ... my ... God!
Exploitation, kashrut, and global warming
When does "stick to the knitting" mean "put your head in the sand"?
Winston Churchill on Joe Lieberman
New entry from the Dictionary of Functional Analysis
Action item
"Above my pay grade"
Epithets
Leadership in a local jail
"How can you say I am not betrayed?"
Home schooling
More fun facts to know and tell
Conservation
Confidence game
Just plain folks
Calling Maureen Dowd -- McCain Shrink Needed
McCain folds again
Attn: Late-night comics
Global warming and ordinary prudence
Analogy
NBC/WSJ Poll Internals -- McCain = Bush 3
How it's done
Precis
More houses than he can count
The three greatest lies
Breaking news
Jack Cafferty slams McCain
Water-Rustler-in-Chief
Say. This. EVERY. DAY.
Obama ad hits McCain on Ralph Reed
"Reckless, Trigger-Happy, Discredited"
To the gates of Hell, but not to Pakistan
Donation caps, etc.
Of amethysts and fake ID's
Obama, McCain contrast on Russia
Ding, dong!
Maverick -- Is that really a good thing?
McCain's smoothness at Saddleback--another take
McCain's Saddleback deception
McCain Campaign's non-denial denial and McCain's character
Your tax dollars at work
A fellow POW on John McCain's qualifications for President
Choosing an enemy
Non sequitur
Does anyone care about actually running the government?
Ron Suskind, Gutter Journalist? or Dick Cheney, Ultimate Subversive?
A different take on the Georgian outcome
Good riddance!
Three cheerful Sunday columns
Russian vocabulary lesson
No, Glenn ...
Israel, Georgia, Russia, Iran, and the US
Georgia on my mind
The definitive "McCain is Bush III" video
Getting on offense
Gore for VP?
Love, death, and John McCain
Just askin'
The word you're looking for is "blasphemy"
John McCain, wind power, and hot air
"A severe character defect"
Latest from Georgia
Is this allowed?
Putin, power worship, and the right
Brilliant!
Maverick
Unbef*ckinglievable
Why are these two items not the same?
If I were Saakashvili ...
"Nobody likes a funeral"
Self-reliance ...
Leading by example
The Georgian confict: McCain's blunder
Estonia to back early NATO entry for Georgia?
Is there anything to DO about Georgia?
A case of plagiarism
On the job
Our man in Tbilisi
Obama Fantasy Speech #5
Media logic
Bush-Cheney failures and Russian Imperialism
Imperialism
Temper, temper!
How anti-choice is John McCain?
Et tu, Fox? Then fall, McCain!
Obama about to annouce his VP pick?
A beacon to an oppressed world
The good guys win one: A most satisfying little Memphis victory
The black voters of Memphis reject Jew-baiting, race-baiting, and gay-baiting
As you plant, so shall you reap
Nature imitating art
"Why McCain would be a mediocre president"
Ohio Democrats take off the gloves
Sleazy, hot-tempered, ill-natured
Military commission to GWB: Up yours!
Internal affairs
Obama and "faith-based" programs
How it's done
Press(ur)ing an advantage
Wrong...wrongwrongwrong
McCain and the Co-equal Branches of Government
The FBI and Anthrax
"Pea-green with envy"
Questions for John McCain
Good question
Obama fantasy speech #4
Paper tiger
Facilitating a Middle East Peace Deal Now: The Refugee Issue
Stupid Economic Punditry -- Ruth Marcus edition
The best President (illegal) money can buy
"Change you can photo-shop"
John McCain: out-of-touch elitist
Obama 47, McCain 41
Who does John McCain think his supporters are?
Obama Fantasy Speech #3: The Barons of Wal-Mart
John McCain as Britney Spears
McCain's presumption
Joe Klein sees the light
I have a little list ...
Just asking
"To the gates of Hell": NOT!
Why Everyone is Wrong About the New LA Fast-Food Ordinance
NY Times Magazine: Is Afghanistan a Narco-State
Rand Study Refutes Karl Rove on Terror
"Without any support in the case law"
John McCain, still Standing Tall
Which candidate is more like Britney Spears?
Olmert's End--and Kadima's Future?
Obama's record: what Ambinder missed
LA Times on the McCain payroll
A little (statistical) learning is a dangerous thing
Finality of verdict
Take your pick
The Schwarzenegger v. Democrats Budget Showdown
"Old age is second childhood": Aristophanes
Dara Torres is Jewish. Who knew?
McCain's Ferragamos
McCain's skin biopsy: benign
Cleaning Out the Stables
All's well
Ethanol and its discontents
Environmental Review and the New Urbanism
Words are actions, and actions have consequences
McCain on gay adoption: a pander to a flip-flop to a half-waffle
Pardons: Just Keeping Score
More California linguistics
Standing tall
Obamaphobia in action
A half-truth from the Obama campaign
Krankenkassen and federalism
Wingnut Welfare Greenwashes the JNF
Who Is Minding the Store on the NY Post's op-ed page? Anyone?
Mutterschaft und Apfelkuchen
We are the world -- Patriotism and Globalism
The Backyardigans Save America's Suburbs
Magic Wand Economics (or John McCain, Comedian?)
Tearing Down Walls: Chauvinism, Exceptionalism, Universalism, Globalism
Byron York Has Amnesia
A Cunning Plan
Cadillac Desert is not a Bible
Question of the Day
Decency is SUCH a bore
Obama, the Surge, and opportunity cost
FT columnist: generals prefer Obama to McCain on Iran
Lying or confused?
The Upcoming Pardon Wave: Bring on the Disbarments!
Journalists and the Obama Plane: Access or Ego?
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic
Note to John McCain
Change We Have Been Waiting For: Ryan Lizza Edition
Batman and Morality in an Era of Terror
French headscarves again
Is McCain surrounded ENTIRELY by crooks?
"He comes by his economic ignorance honestly"
Correction, or retraction?
FBI Lists 9/11 as a "Top Ten" Moment in History
Shhhhh!!!!!!! ...
Game, set, match?
McCain, Machiavelli -- spoke too soon edition
McCain blabs
McCain not Machiavelli; comfortable with economic thuggery
A Quibble: Clinton's Gas Tax Holiday was not so bad as McCain's
The "gas tax holiday" and objective journalism
What do you call the Christian Right's position on gay adoption?
Affect and action: the Christian Right v. gay adoption
The cost of flip-flop: McCain on gay adoption
John McCain, Teddy Roosevelt Maverick?
Life Imitates Art Department: David Alan Grier and JC Watts
The curious incident of the dog ...
Cheerful thought
Concerning sacrilege
McCain, confusion, aging, and ageism
Intelligence Showdown, Part II: Where are Loud Liberals When You Need Them?
Riverboat John McCain ...
Bikes, hair dryers, and MI5
Attack dog
Al Hunt hammers McCain
McCain says: "Slash Social Security benefits"
Obama finds a "lunch-pail" issue
Against the Fannie/Freddie bailout
Counter-terrorism at the FBI, or how to dry your hair with a bicycle
FBI Birthday Gifts
"Tasteless and Offensive" -- and sticky
Machiavellian Press Management?
Playing nice
Latest Nigerian email scam
Heartless
Los Angeles Times: Sub-zero stupid
If Bush takes Obama's advice about Iraq, that's ... good for McCain?
Obama and the "facts on the ground" in Iraq
Andrew Sabl on Michael Moore's "Sicko"
McCain tells the truth
McCain on net neutrality: No.
McCain's Loyal MSM Infantry
Queen Anne's bloggers
Not a good week for McCain ...
Pelosi figures it out
Economics and Fundamentalism
FISA: Another Perspective
Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Price of Oil
Halperin and Zick on FISA
More fun than a barrel of monkeys
WARNING: This post is MEAN to John McCain
Maliki "betrays" McCain
Compare and contrast
Just to be clear ...
Voodoo economics redux
Outrage dep't: ERISA pre-emption
Not-And
Out in Sixteen Months -- Another Take
What part of "out in sixteen months" don't you understand?
Obama and FISA's Mother
The St. Joseph Home Sale Kit: Another product promotion straight from the Onion
Yes, it's presumptuous to worry about our insane presidential transition process. But still....
Iran, bogeyman II
Telco immunity: Exhale!
Clark, McCain and the forms of courage
Hillaryites for McCain, my @ss
$1.2 billion rip-off
Yes, Waterboarding is Torture
An Interesting Dilemma
Iran, Bogeyman
Obama and Faith: Old Wine, New Bottle
Latest must-have for Obama fans
Risk and wishful thinking
Peak solar and the Maharishi
Not just a flash in the pan
Why No Parliaments in the United States?
Piling on re Wes Clark on John McCain
Getting the General's Back
Wes Clark on John McCain
Mark Halperin and Andrew Sullivan Have Forgotten How to Read
Stopping the clock
No lower bound
Mugabe: up the long ladder and down the short rope
Note to bloggers and other journalists: "reign in"
The good life
Political cockroaches
Why is there never an editor around when you really need one?
Clinton's courage
Obama's grace
Classy Clinton
John McCain finds another crazy preacher
The underdog
MDMA therapy for post-traumatic stress?
Sinews of war
An individual right to keep and bear arms: Ho, hum.
Jihadi Violence: Grounds for Optimism?
John McCain's Jurisprudence
A modest proposal: A grand nuclear bargain between Israel and Iran
One is an outlier. Two is a trend.
George W. Bush, Multiculturalist
Filibustering FISA: Obama in a Box
Step on a crack ...
"It would be a big advantage to him"
What sort of objectivity in the classroom?
The fundraising deal
Expanding the playing field
Minority report
Concerning outliers
Query
Ambinder on McCain on offshore drilling: Does not compute.
Be afraid of that cheesesteak, very afraid: Can we bring public health into the 2008 campaign?
Is it a crime to want guilty officials tried and punished?
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
PPP: Obama up by 11 in Ohio
McCain campaign slimes Obama on terrorism policy
The biofuel circus
Blackmail
Commander in chief? McCain didn't even make admiral.
Wes Clark: McCain "untested and untried" in national security leadership
John McCain invents dry water
Dogs-and-fleas Dep't
Ambition and moral degeneration
"As long as I count the votes" dep't: Edward Felten
The game of Presidents
The McCain-McCain debate: pro-Bush or anti-Bush?
McCain's campaign manager's Kremlin ties
He contains multitudes
Former Presidential candidate for rent
"A slang term that many found offensive"
The bottom line
Ethnic consciousness and nativism
Casting out demons
"Not that important"
Reporters and religion (again)
McCain and abortion
James Q. Wilson on crime
Ted Strickland Channels General Sherman: How About Sebelius?
Bump
Gotcha!
Amy Zegart speaks this Thursday evening at 7:30
Bill Kristol's proud ignorance of Christianity
Sid Blumenthal, hero for a day
JK Rowling as an Amnesty International alumna
John McCain: One interview, two gaffes
The L.A. Times on "McCain the Moderate"
"Now the whole country's counting on you. Not just me."
National Security Policy and Politics
A note from a Clinton supporter
McCain supports "Don't ask, don't tell"
Strange bedfellows
The Clinton speech
All you need to know about McCain, part 2
Idle thought
Straight Talk speak with forked tongue, pt. eleventeen
Idle speculation
"How do we beat the bitch?" "Excellent question!"
Coming home?
Exhale!
Lakers v. Celtics: The Anticlimax?
All you really need to know about John McCain
The Hatchet Job
Three candidates. Three speeches.
Looks as if they did it
Obama now over the top: AP
Clark for VP?
Phil Gramm, ghoul
Incest-belt humor
Gulp
Objectivity and expertise in journalistic practice
McCain's religious cluelessness
Snitching
What it means
Ouch!
New math, or new grammar?
Warner for Veep?
"Law and order" as a political slogan
Crime and what to do about it
Clueless in Gaza
Getting serious about water policy
Comeback
"What liberal media?" dep't
John McCain, Phil Gramm, and UBS
What does McCain's speech on nuclear security say?
The Phineas Priesthood
Clinton South Dakota TV spot
Scott McClellan to reporters: Suckers!!!!!!!!!!
Volokh on the (il)logic of excluding gays from the military
Good news, possibly true
Cosma Shalizi on Kleiman on Krugman on Obama
Losing potential non-coms: the GI Bill v. Blackwater
Paul Krugman admits the obvious
FOX News contributor calls for Obama's assassination
Moral equivalence?
Some advice to Barack Obama from Lao-tse
Rove, Siegelman, and executive privilege
Clarification
"A very bad day for Gramps"
McCain and the veterans: talk v. action
Obama on Bush: "negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries"
The nativists are restless
Sistani to the rescue?
"Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June"
Against the "dream ticket"
Webb for VP
Baruch Obama?
Question for Sen. McCain
Conservatives are stuck with Bush and the Republicans
John Hagee and the Israel lobb(ies)
What can Obama do for HRC?
Bad day for McCain, Part III: "Grandpa is cranky"
The nightmare ticket
Bad day for John McCain, Part II: anger management
Bad day for John McCain, Part I: crazy preachers
Huffington on McCain
John McCain and Teheran's tools
Ehud Chamberlain?
Messin' with the money again
What if California voters overturn the gay-marriage decision?
Everything old is new again
McCain's lobbyist albatross
The bare necessities of copyright
What could we do if we broke the power of money in politics?
The enduring evil of the Bush years
Striking back
"Completely divorced from reality"
Good carbon policy needs good monitoring
Bush and the Farm Bill
Rats being forced off the ship department?
Another goddamned appeaser
HRC does the right thing ...
Bad for the Jews
Motes-and-beams dep't
Budget fecklessness
Do carbon taxes hit oil producers?
Cindy McCain's tax returns: an issue after all?
Sitting out the party
Hit 'em again--harder, harder
Conservation and its discontents
Greenhouse-gas footprints and environmental activism
McCain puts one over the outside corner
Scylla and Charibdis
Some 'splainin' to do
The death penalty for drug possession?
Some people who need a raise more than you do...
Ignorance is strength
Judge him by his friends
Adwatch
Note to Paul Krugman
Early June
The Yavapai Ranch
Lame comeback of the week
Cap and Trade: what matters, and what doesn't
Who has a record?
Embracing hatred
Question for John McCain
Growing credit card debt dims economic picture
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Milwaukee's worst
Lunatics all over the place
The finale: when, and how?
The Supreme Court as a November issue
Sexism
IN/NC wrap-up
Enough already.
Contempt
From the language-police blotter
Obama/Ayers. McCain/Liddy.
Sauce. Goose. Gander.
Time to vote
Pandering as a character issue
The McCain plan: "Health insurance for people who don't need health care"
Expertise and elitism
HRC in 2005: 50 years in Iraq would be just peachy-keen
Not a gaffe
Ask not what you can do for your country
More on those funny robo-calls in North Carolina
McCain's bullsh*t
Obama strikes back
Can we not talk about obliterating people?
Ooooops!
Fearless prediction
"The long and sad annals of truly bad ideas"
The Mickey Kantor Indiana tape ...
Bill Moyers on Jeremiah Wright
The Clinton campaign vs. the Gucci-wearing pansies
In a distant galaxy...
The Republican war on science, continued?
Questions for Hillary Rodham Clinton
McCain, lefty
Blowing the whistle on Sid Blumenthal
Obama's Naivete
An entangling alliance
Dinde Clinton et dindon Obama à la sauce Krugman
Against it before he was for it
"Just asking" dep't
A pander too far?
Shorter Ross Douthat
Birthday cake
... and ye shall receive
Obama and the gas tax holiday
Vote suppression in North Carolina?
Moldova = Wal-Mart — smiley-face
Albert Hofmann transcends time and space
Froude Reynolds with more on the Westlands scam
Comparing corporations to territorial units
The Gas Tax Holiday
Airlines
Gas prices
Notes on 2 Sam. 4
I feel your pain: McCain's fatuous but politically effective tour of coal country
Even more precisely: Wouldn't Hamas profit from another conservative Republican?
Moustache of indignity
No time to go wobbly
Can poetry ever cease to matter?
Precisely!
Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Bandar Bush, once more: the BAE scandal
"A false sense of suspense"
Electability dep't
Honor Malaria Day--Buy a $7 bednet to protect sleeping kids
The Leviathan speaks
Aquabiking in The Netherlands
LAT hit piece on Obama tracks Clinton smears
Merritt v. Kleiman on the nomination race
Math update: a question of timing
Another gift to the Democrats from John McCain
Yeah-what-he-said Dep't
"Weakness"? I don't think so
Comparison
The pundits and the rounding error
The bottom line
So far, not so bad
As we all chew our nails waiting for Pennsylvania to come in ...
Note to Barack Obama
Ketu
Another McCain scandal for the media to ignore
Netherlands bicyclists
The MoveOn Obama TV spot contest ...
McCain finds a loophole in McCain-Feingold
No genocide for at least ten years ...
Bill Clinton on hope and fear
Reductio ad absurdum
Netherlands bicycles II
Offending Smaug
Damning McCain with Faint Praise
We will bury you, all in due time
What explains the moral probity of the Italian clergy?
MindWar
"Enhanced educational opportunities could negatively affect retention rates"
"I wanted them to think me still an honest man"
A physicist's casual aside reminds us that we have much to live up to this Passover 2008.
Probity bites
Obama's silence echoes in Tbilisi
Voodoo economics 3.0
Iraq, al-Qaeda, and John McCain
Motes-and-beams dep't
De Fietsdief
Yoo, tenure, and the Office of Professional Responsibility
Paying prosecutors piece rates: oviously improper
Technical bleg
A winner-takes-all market in infamy
Why do the Dutch ride lousy bicycles?
Obama unmasked as secret Marxist
You-can't-make-this-stuff-up dep't
Obama, masculinity, blackness, and hoops
What Obama Should Have Said
Loving Big Brother
Geographic mobility, concentrated poverty, and relational assets
Take this employer-based health coverage and shove it
Lemonade dep't
Concerning Megan McArdle
Goodbyes
An "Israel Lobby" for Rabin supporters
More endorsements
Comment on the debate
John W. McDole's excellent adventure in economics
More Yoo-hoo
Firing John Yoo: a comment
Counter-punching
Should John Yoo lose his job?
Your tax dollars at work
A big step backwards
Obama-MaCain TIED in NC?
Comparison
RIP NYC Congestion Charge
Biodegradability: Bug or Feature?
"There Is No Substitute for Victory" and Other Flights from Reality
Corruption and real life
"WTF?" Dep't
"Prison rape is not a punchline"
Olympic protests
Fool me twice?
Just an empty suit, without expertise in foreign policy
Punk Baracker
"Exceeds objective standards of fairness"
Full audio of Jeremiah Wright's Jeremiad ...
It's over (Chapter Eleventeen)
Is Obama damaged goods? Doesn't look that way
Say what? dep't
Political violence
The Lisbon primary
What can brown do for us?
Carter Endorses Obama? No thanks
Highways of metallic isolation
Neutronium John McCain
Keating 5 anniversary: Did McCain just call for more "government-induced accounting fraud"?
Big in Iran
For me to Grey Poupon
Coins again
Perfect pitch
MC Bill, cold chillin' in Cali
Concerning torture, ticking bombs, and "lawfare"
In Groucho veritas
A small but important issue that involves no sex, evildoers, or conflict
John S. Koppel, belletrist
Dust in the wind
More lobbying in StraightTalkLand
Lapel pin ...
Good news for Siegelman, bad news for Rove
Two million donors against two dozen millionaires
NPR frames itself
Obama on the economy
Barack Obama, historian and Hamiltonian
Jeremiah Wright, class act
Mad Liberalism
How bad could four years of McCain be? Bad.
Misdirection
Justifying cross-over voting
Keeping an eye on the main chance
Kmiecal reactions
Limits
Don't know much about economics
Crime as a campaign issue
Nice, if true (and now confirmed)
Same as the old boss
"First, be not afraid"
Urdon't
"Now it's worse than poverty"
We're not the deciders
Great Pyrenees
Analysis and error
Accountability
"Bush resolute in face of Iraq death toll"
"A place of moral leadership"
Banzai!
The Kwame Kilpatrick case
Silver lining
"Voices carry"
A fine balance
A conservative embraces Obama
Loyalty and logic
Georgian Opposition Hunger Force
As a vertebrate, I believe...
Easter doubts
The Real McCain
Inference and belief
Just in the holiday spirit ...
Did Obama throw grandma under the bus? Not so much.
Another cease-fire?
Reflections on an empty tomb
Purim, schmurim
Resurrection: some Easter reflections
Bring back bad words!
Priceless
Is it over?
How fair was that trial?
Snoopery doggedness
Snoopery
Odium anti-theologicum?
Michael Scherer Fluffs McCain
Precisely!
Dude--er--Professor?
Click on through to the other side
Another NPR puff-piece on McCain
Obama and the right
"It is time, once again, for America to lead. "
Tibet
If Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address
Politics and Art: Feminism and some humble pie
Retraction
Not-so-strange bedfellows
Obama v. McCain: A battle of wits with an unarmed man
McArdle v. Kleiman, Round II
Classy
Experience
"That is where the perfection begins"
Will Jeremiah Wright sink Barack Obama?
You keep using that word
The Politics of the Pulitzer
It's a floor wax and a dessert topping
Houston beats Houston Street
Clusterf*ck
A good Mayor of Birmingham
New Math
Video killed the campaign-jingle writer
"Christian Music"
Hadn't-heard-that-one dep't
Plenipotentiary, sure, but "extraordinary"?
Defining infamy down
Rock on Christian soldiers
No longer for sale
Is Sidney Blumenthal spreading right-wing smears about Obama?
Round trip
Pi day
Hillary wins the Krasnodarsky Kray primary
Whiz grandkids
Counterfactual logic
Life in Helsinki
"He's not that black"
Too late, the truth about NAFTAgate
No surprise in Mississippi
McCain v. Hillary, redux
"Structuring" by Spitzer, and by Limbaugh
Alles klar Frau Kommissar?
Fusion-ticket dept.
"The okey-doke"
Staid lions and immortal porpoises
Odds shifting underfoot
Placebos, antidepressants, and government mendacity
Why I'll vote for HRC against McCain if it comes to that
Applying social pressure to boost electoral turnout
McCain and the "threshold"
Hastert's seat flips
Hilzoy on Hillary and Rwanda
Wyoming results
Meantime...
The truth hurts
Crazy, sure. So crazy it just might work.
Opportunity knocks
Separated at birth?
It's not just fossil fuels
60 seats in the Senate?
Question for Hillary Clinton
Wheels coming off?
The Math
Strategies of commitment
Yerevan one to talk
Pardon me, Mr. President.
Will to Power
Old ladies at war
Ouch!
It's 3 a.m.--do you know where your campaign adviser is?
Welcome to the grand illusion
No Doubt
More praise for Hillary Clinton
The hook?
Bear any burden, pay any price...
What does "reasonable doubt" mean?
Mark hits a home run
"We are simply selling our souls"
Hillary's consistency
Chutzpah
"All in" for my good friend Barack
Every day is Veterans' Day
The delegate count
ICANN do anything
Math is hard
Does Cleveland rock?--let's go to the map
Fair warning to Hillaryites
Duplicity
I was Trashed in Foreign Affairs
Maybe thimerosal causes unemployment
So you think you can defend your thesis?
McCain and thimerosal
Identity politics
Damascene report
Are you experienced?
Teaching
When is prejudice funny?
Query
The Goeglein plagiarism case
Carlos Guttierez be tripping
Classy
John McCain and John Hagee: a profile in ...
Toys and art
Straight dope on Russia
Althouse on McCain and Hagee
Georgias on my minds
Anatomy of a smear: Obama and NAFTA
The enemies within
Why we all can't just get along
Worthwhile Canadian-Liechtensteinian initiative
This may cause a little discomfort
Um, Med-medvedova, whatever
Is our children learning?
Is there a cost-quality tradeoff?
£i€cht€n$t€in, du staat meiner traüme
My principality 'tis of thee
Yes, he could
A clean campaign? The thing's been done.
A bandwidth too far?
In Louisiana??!!
Headline snooze
Headline news
Final chapter for Dutton's Brentwood
Turn out the lights
Editorial license revoked
The last debate?
Army CoS has "no reason to doubt" Obama's soldier story
Obama as the Democrats' Reagan
Hillary's last hurrah?
Yeah! What he said!
John McCain, mensch
"The real McCain"? I don't think so.
Gimme an Rx!
985,360
Mark Halperin, enabler of bigotry
Pharmaceutical marketing
Et tu, Texas?
A Short Constitutional Law Lesson
The next Attorney General?
Another fake scandal
Railroaded
I knew Thomas Jefferson
A Clean Hit
Byte me
Economic regulation, safety regulation, social insurance, public services, and torts
The New Lakers
Is Barack Obama black?
All politics is domestic
Health and Habits
Cracking down on tax evasion
And by "precedent" we mean "nyet"
Motherhood, apple pie, and Kosovo
And so it goes in Belgrade
Shorter John McCain
Influence peddling on the Straight Talk Express
Obama's platoon-leading captain: yes, he exists
Shorter Josh Marshall
Why I want to pay higher taxes
McCain's demexch
Straight Talk speak with forked tongue
Danzig, dude! Oh, *Richard* Danzig?
Don't bother emailing this post
Paxson and the dominionists
Tu quoque
Another take on McCain-Iseman
McCain and the media barons
No homophobes in foxholes?
Very afraid
Defocused
The Iseman cometh
Is the brass ready for gays in the military?
Be Afraid: John McCain's Attorney General
Bill's marker
Inflation and the Right
Wheee
Cease-fire
Don't Stay Up for Hawai'i
The Obama Backlash Proceeds Apace
Good news from Wisconsin?
Precedent George H.W. Bush
The "faithless delegate" strategy
Lost in space
Guess which Democrat ...
What Hilzoy said
Knowing and learning
Dumb and dumberer
Revenge of the nerds
Welcome Kosovo ..
Transition
Do I hear one million for the drop cloth?
Shorter Harold Ickes
In case you have nothing better to do ...
Luxury fever and GHG reduction
Nick Kristof Should Go Back to Darfur
Why do we have a private health insurance industry again?
Bizarro world
The dog that doesn't bark in Georgia
Roid rage
What's wrong with foreign-policy "realism"
Chris Field on global warming
Obama's Chance for a Sister Souljah Moment
Reason #147 why Chris Matthews is a Dolt
Pelosi's neutrality, Obama's victory
Proving the wrong point
The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement
Textual criticism
McCain and the wingnuts: a rebuttal
Time to Attack
Feint praise
Demobilization
John McCain Gets a Dunce Cap
Stop using gas as a weapon
Kleiman v. Loury on Bloggingheads
McCain and the extremists
Does John McCain Have Enough Foreign Policy Experience?
The True Value of Legal Education: Lincoln's Birthday Edition
No, no, no, no, NO!!
A really bad day for biofuels
Quondam mechanics
Too much time on my hands
Mismanaging capital (footnote)
What is is with these ridiculous watches?
Fixing the wrong problem
Idled capital
SNAFU
Armageddon warmer?
HRC vetted and scandal-proof? Not so much.
A mite bit obscure
I'll take "Notable Notables" for 500?
Resolution of censure
Acid Test
And by "successful," we mean "socialist"
Romney "graceful"? WTF?
Quick quiz ...
NPR and the McCain Kool-Aid
"Scheme liability" and the campaign
Mittenfreude
More debates?
I hate to kick a man when he's down, but ...
The Obama money machine
BHO and HRC on Cuba
From Russia with scorn
Worried about McCain?
HRC's loan: the ethics and the optics
HRC lends her own campaign $5M; Obama responds
Conditional probabilities and polling analysis
Footnote to last night
In the cold gray light of dawn ...
Not a bad night
Obama ahead in NJ?
One more reason to oppose Voter ID
Don't look now, but ...
Impartiality
Minsk endorses McCain
Pollack on Krugman on Gruber on mandates
McCain-Lukashenko '08
Biblical criticism
"The whole vile, fear-driven history of humanity"
Not "crying" again! Please not!
CNN: Obama 49, Clinton 46
Endorsements
Good news coming?
The California propositions
Reason to vote Democratic #16,523
"Fired up, ready to go"
Enough with the "mandates," already!
Wagging the dog, again?
Cheaters (sometimes) never prosper
Obama and Exelon
A "Joshua generation"?
Department of "Huh?"
"And now abideth ... these three" ... but not with HRC?
A playlet
And that's the way it isn't
"Yes We Can": the music video
Reacción Católica
Concerning spine and clean needles
In comicus veritas
Big New Endorsement for Obama
Duelling conservatives
Convert zeal?
White House control and economic growth: the historical pattern
Bringing back Harry and Louise
Divination class, electoral division
Bill criticizes Hillary
Universal coverage, individual mandates, etc.
Dear Good Sir,...
Nailed it!
Baseless speculation Dep't
Driver's licenses for illegals
Grover Cleveland VII comes out for Mike Gravel
Live-blogging III
Live-blogging Part II
Live-blogging the debate
Two non-scandals
Fair winds and foul
Um, George Clinton?
And the painted ponies go up and down
Kenny G made me do it
"I'm always proud of Wal-Mart"
Blood on the Coal
Kennedy: The next generation
Third prize is you're fired
Hannah Arendt on George W. Bush
George W. Cataline
Quid pro quo
Obama's liberalism and conservative voters
Is McCain suddenly ahead for November?
The cultural production of ignorance.
Why do endorsements matter?
I dub thee the Democratic nominee
Clintion and Obama on Iraq
Kennedy's endorsement, Obama's SOTU response
FISA cloture fails
Muddling through II - a Frenchie alternative
Cheerful thought for November
HRC loses another vote
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
Can't fool all of the people ...
Can Ted Kennedy help Obama among Latinos?
Edwards for NLRB?
...and Cher Is My Favorite Singer
HRC on China trade
Let Them Eat Cake (but don't let them reheat it)
Muddling through I
Exegesis Saves
What-we-don't-know-won't-hurt-them Dep't
Barack Obama and the Widow's Mite
Could Obama handle McCain?
Tacky
Obama's speech
Slick!
John McCain, honest and civil?
Big win for the big O?
Compassion
The President as an operating officer
Notes on 2 Samuel, Chapter 3
Modelizer in Chief
Concerning November
My $1000 is safe
Playing the race card
Obama and the telecom amnesty bill
Image processing software
A postcard from Arbil
More from my camera
About those White House emails ...
In search of "the exact quote"
The Clintons and the Abyss
Perversity Training
Democratize This
Do black votes for Obama count?
OK, go ahead
Mikheil to the Chief
Style, substance, and "kumbaya"
"If we are honest with ourselves"
Should five percent appear too small
Moral clarity Dep't
Scorched earth campaigning
Irony dep't
If their lips are moving ...
RBC scores again!
A Good Question, Actually
Calculation of the day
Harold Pollack on health services and Obama
Bill Clinton loses an admirer
Pardon the Telecoms!
Bill Clinton defends the indefensible
Ready on Day One?
Republican talking points Dep't
Gotta love Huckabee
None More Black
Get Realist
Failure to Uncommit
The Georgian elections
Welcome to a new colleague
Concerning denials
Biggest Gaffe of the Campaign So Far
Is CDS contagious?
An endorsement: "Uncommitted" in Michigan
Was the founder of fascism a fascist?
Who does better in November?
The Clinton slime machine in action, billionaire division
Vote suppression
Obama's moderation
Bandwagon
Language lesson
Shorter Steven Landsburg
Worried about Huckabee?
The Competitive Tax Bandwagon Rolls On
McCain Disqualifies Himself for the Presidency
Does Obama identify with the poor?
Obama's sanity
Obama's concession
Contra-Wilder Effect
New Hampshire exit poll results
Obama and the Balance of Risks
Nu, so what's with the ethnic cleansning already?
Huckabee: Dumb Like a Fox?
Unsolicited Tax Advice for Huckabee
Health-care cost containment and Nataline Sarkisiyan
Quote without comment
Inside and outside
The Huckabee Con
HRC scores!
What's the matter with Kansas?
Will the neo-cons and money-cons swallow Huckabee?
No sense of decency?
The other shoe drops
No conservation law for political vitriol
In defense of New Hampshire voters
Bonus thought
Random thought on Fox's exclusion of Ron Paul
According to the predictions markets ...
I suppose you could call this good news
NH Democratic debate
This is just too perfect
Theory-of-change Dep't: "It won't hurt you"
GOP talking points dep't
Vertical thinking
Caught in the Rye
Obama against police torture
Obama's 100 Days
Will Obama eat McCain's lunch in New Hampshire?
Huckabee's speech, and Hillary's, and Edwards's
Convincing
Thoughts on Obama
A hundred years
For what it's worth ...
Bodacious Tata
Fuel economy statistics
Vegan Cane Sugar?
The DOJ-CIA Videotape Investigation: Morose Thought of the Day
American Democracy: Not a World Leader
Concerning mendacity
The Huckabee attack ad
ISI and the Taliban: Distinction without a difference?
Tear down that IRB!
Abortion rights for servicemembers
How not to criticize a football coach
Wrecking the army (cont'd)
Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh
Piety, virtue, and folly
Dollars to donuts, 1:1
Jiu-jitsu
"Kumbaya"? Not so much
My new toy (and so can you)
Sovereign wealth
More on Schwarzenegger
Mark Twain on Mark Penn, Mitt Romney, et al.
No, Don't Recall Him
Recall Schwartzenegger?
Progressive Blog Digest: a daily "must-read"
"If you breathe, you make lieutenant colonel"
Electability
FISA: The Talking Point
Kerrey, again
"A liar needs a good memory"
Receding horizon?
Obama's toughness
Truth and Reconciliation
Kerrey and "Barack Hussein Obama"
A good year for Kumabya?
My bloggingheads debut with Megan McArdle
Libertarian Derangement Syndrome
Why do the money-cons hate Huckabee?
Michael Boskin, traitor to his discipline
Solvency, or just liquidity?
(Im)plausible deniability
License to torture
"Hillabust"?
Partisan differences
The Senate Democrats: Enablers of the GOP
Belly Rave update
Nesting
The Dumond video
Concerning feasibility
Defending Hillary
The risks of a brokered GOP convention
Snitch...
Belly Rave, here we come
Shorter Rudy Giuliani
Charlie Cook has good news for Obama fans
Uh-oh!
Obama's trick
Obama in Universal City
Speaking of Clinton Derangement Syndrome ...
Dumond, Huckabee, and Clinton Derangement Syndrome
Torture as a partisan issue
Will Huck go after Rudy?
Shorter Wall Street Journal editorial
Rent control v. subsidy for long-term residence
Price controls in the fun-house mirror
Obama campaign v. Krugman
Euphemism of the month
Fidel Huckabee?
Legitimate inference from faith
Stupefying toys: it’s not the lead you need to worry about
Torture and capital punishment
More on Mitt the Bigot
This is scary
Two More Filibusters
One more thing Huckabee got wrong
Innumerate, and proud of it
"Ness" monster spotted in HRC's camp
Topics for the NPR Iowa debate
Murray Waas smashes Huckabee
Celebrating the Ayatollah Mattathias
"Works and plays well with others": NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
Can cannabis be a medicine?
Shorter Iran nukes NIE
GOP v. democracy
Fool me once ...
Huckabee's ethics
Against anti-fundamentalist bigotry
More Justified Piling On Joe Klein
Department of Gloating: Mike Huckabee Edition
Why it's going to be Huckabee
In praise of the bursting housing bubble
On the apparent fragility of Moslem faith
Second Samuel, Chapter 2
Everything old is new again
Beauty contest
Clearing the innocent
Who says the Bush Administration is incompetent?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Civil war fact
Retraction: the Clinton campaign DID tip
Am I deranged?
Woo hoo
Blackwater down
The Bridge Chicks
Obstruction of justice: News Corp., Regan, and Kerik
The planted question
We get letters (update)
Judah Benjamin update: not exactly Jewish
Working the refs: Climate Change Edition
The assault weapons ban and the Democrats
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
Sex in prison
Lead balloon
Telecom immunity: just asking
Peak oil
The wisdom of the impeachment strategy
Concerning wingnuts and wing nuts
Precisely!
"Carefully calibrated"
The Decider
Push comes to shove
Carbon tax, or economics is not a good choice of religion
Obama's proposed Iranian deal
Mark Penn, again
Terrorist communications
Who bears the costs of ALF terrorism?
The economics of Neolithic ham
Danger - rabid surrender monkeys
Hurrah!
Obama's radicalism
Universal jurisdiction in U.S. law
Walking the plank
We get letters
Hallowe'en Grinch
Sox in 4
Making progress backwards
Post equitem sedet atra cura
"Ignorance is the opiate of the poor"
Sadist-in-Chief
California's Wildfires: Lessons Learned?
"By all good souls is he abhorred...
Is waterboarding torture?
Turnabout is fair play
Tattoos for the blind?
Serving gifted children
Heckuva job, Karl!
Hearings, please
Don't just do something! Stand there!
Drawing the line
Financing S-CHIP
Obama vs. inevitability
Physical health and health
Coin-operated politics
The Epistle to the Sybarites - yours for only $9.95!
Truth, diplomacy, and genocide
The Turkish Armenian Morassacre
Thinking like a lawyer
The SIV epidemic
Class acts (or maybe not)
Having Gen. Sanchez's back
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
An expert opinion
The LAPD gets smart about gang control
Suggestion
Setting a low standard
HRC on torture: the "we don't know" evasion
Rupert Murdoch, tree-hugger
"A bill for the relief of Khaled al-Masri"
Watermarks
Keeping our eye on the main chance
"Independent" Boards for Non-Profits?
Explanations for action
"I never laid hands on anyone; I never compromised my humanity."
God bless Larry Craig!
The Three-Toed Sloth on IQ and genetics
Clarence Thomas, prison brutality,
and judicial restraint:
an exchange of views
"Ashamed"
S-CHIP as a campaign issue
More details on the Blackwater massacre
Clarence Thomas, again
More contractor problems
A rebuttal is not a refutation
The Churchill card - ace or bust?
You can't make this stuff up
Zero nukes
Obama and Lincoln
Subprime loans in Judaea
First things first
Friedman: "9/11 is over"
Competing to sell the rope
Some good news for Obama fans
Gandhi in Burma
S-CHIP query
"Rambling" in speeches: a scientific challenge
Your metaphor police in action
Mixed metaphors for 2-007
Removing-all-doubt Dep't
More journalistic malpractice
Political and journalistic malpractice
"Education for judgment"
Two talks at UCLA
Making an issue out of Blackwater
Voting for Obama, right now
Seek the Paths of the Dead
Black swan Dep't
The magic number is 6...
Jonah
On gun-nuttery
Giuliani improvising, and guns
Is Harry Reid a wimp?
Bush and Mandela
Texan green capitalism
Shipwrecks
The Kite Runner
Uh, I hate to bring this up, but....
African-Americans and the GOP:
The Delegitimization Strategy
The music connection
The real story of the Ghuman case
Dumb as a post, also as stupid
Objective metrics Dep't
Logical reasoning
A Northwest Passage
Blackwater banned
Chemerinsky Reinstated
Northern Fudge
Gaffe
1,220,580
Blegging for information: the Senate rules and the Webb proviso
Small price
Deserting a sinking ship
No, it's not just boxing and football
Phil Carter in Sherman Oaks Tuesday night at 7:30
Speaking of translations ...
GOP historical canards
A cheap translation trick
Funny ha ha
Iraq strategy for the Democrats
Getting weaker
Why Hasn't Spain Been Attacked Since 11-M?
Why Haven't We Been Attacked Since 9/11?
Accountability
al Qaeda where?
Famous last words
"General Betray Us"
The good news ...
Gen. Petraeaus's ethical lapse
Let them eat cake
Take that!
Saki's Easter egg
How it's done
Faith-based initiatives Dep't
Even More Tax Reform...
"No more cutting insult"
Two more notes on tax reform
Aid to Republicans
The decider
Wrongheaded Tax Policy
Brits leave Basra to its fate
Gone
Still greedy after all these years
Nightmares
Great Timing Department
Straight-Talk Express, 2007 Edition
Texan green socialism
Turks and Armenians
What does Sheryl Stolberg do for a living?
Vick vows to reform, Blank not so much
There's More News Than That
More environmental mischief, and another batch of rich pickpockets at the public trough
What's news about Sen. Craig's arrest?
Nixon on Fred Thompson: Not too smart, but friendly
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
A modest proposal
Horror-film politics
Adults only
Revenge?
Leaving Saigon again
Blood money in politics
Staying in Iraq: just postponing the inevitable?
Neocon dreams: Bush as President for Life
Pinchot and TR would weep to see this
Is American health going backwards?
No, Hillary didn't "support the surge"
Sinking feeling
Amen
Gaius Iulius Bush? I doubt it.
Holocaust denialism at the ADL
Say it ain't so, Mike
My confession of non-faith
Empirical evidence on the content of American religiosity
"Military spending is free!"
Glenn Reynolds maintains his standards of accuracy and civility
Gitmo prosecutor finds Moscow Show Trials defendants guilty
Stalinist history, here and there
Another shrill, partisan Bush-hater
Unforced error
"Surreal" and "far-fetched"
Why "WMD" is a poorly-framed category
Why shouldn't Federal employees edit Wikipedia entries?
Padilla loves Big Brother
More Rovian attack politics from Sen. Obama
Upmarket Friday cat blogging
A homegrown terrorist threat?
Let 'em eat assisted suicide
Joyner on Giuliani
The Petraeus/Crocker report ...
The ECB shows its teeth
Will Obama sweep the black vote?
Rove's disciple
Just kidding!
Winners never quit; quitters never ...
Bykofsky: where's the outrage?
President Pants-on-fire and the draft
"Objectivity" in political reporting
Live by the sword ...
Immigration crackdown: a political squeeze play?
Immigration again
Was 7 WTC Rudy's Love Shack?
Simple Answers to Simple Questions: National Review on Health Care
"Divided by a common language"
The Real Difference Between the Parties
Immigration lunacy
Fox News: Hit them again--harder
Learning from the bridge collapse
Expertise and sensible opinion
"Why terrorists aren't soldiers"
Perfect pitch: Obama talks to the religious right
The academic estate and the public debate
Income, conscience, George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Penn
Mark Penn has a CONSCIENCE? Tell me another one!
Is lobbyists' money dirty money?
Very bad news, stop cheering.
Toughness
Free men, free markets, and toxic toys
Etiquette lesson
Would it be shrill and uncivil to call the driver "Moron One"?
If it's broke, don't fix it.
The Rhetoric of Reaction
NCLB, "new Democrats," and the Information Age
Facing reality, a little bit late
"Mission accomplished" dep't
Writing
Intellectual honesty and morality
Francis Bacon forsees GWB's religiosity
Reforming "bankruptcy reform" for housing-bubble victims
Cheap information
Obama v. HRC: not just shadow-boxing
Obama, nukes, and idiot-elite opinion
Credit crunch
"Failure"
Reflections on the I-35W bridge
Pattern recognition
"Instead we got a color-coded politics of fear"
What we're buying time for
Mantra
Bacevich pulls no punches
"Wishing for John Roberts' Death" - NOT!!!
Same old, same old
The first step in an impeachment ...
The Deathly Hallows
Is Rudy "pro-choice"? Not hardly.
Why Has Relative Deprivation Always Been a Fringe Concept?
If youda ast me, I coulda toljah
Impeach Gonzales?
CARPA?
Exhale!
"... designed not to ascertain the truth"
"No religious test" dep't
Pat Tillman fragged?
Bush to the Hague?
O'Reilly O'Reilly'ed
Is it something in the water?
"Irresponsible and, frankly, naive"
Steel v. gold in Iraq
Go ahead, ask me a hard one.
Obama on gay marriage
Just as we all suspected
Plan B
Potter predictions
Gaming out the confrontation
Mitt Romney, comedian
The future of failed communities
Theories and truth
Kaiser George
"Almost Nixonian"?
Religion, civility, and public discourse
"A full airing"
Romney: Ignorance is strength
Busted!
Bigoted atheism redux
Made to be broken
More GOP fratricide
Terminological inexactitude
Let's-you-and-him-fight Dep't
If an adman had written Genesis ...
Richard Milhous Giuliani
Atheistic bigotry and religous metaphor
Hat trick
Mercy, justice, and Troy Davis
Apparently irrational behavior by the powerful
Iatrogenic stress, health-insurance variant
Vitter goes all in
Reid goes to the mattresses
Malign processes, not malign people
Pope Benedict and the Christianist alliance
Too bad Troy Davis doesn't play lacrosse
Are all Iraqis our enemies?
Shorter George W. Bush
Stopped Clock Dept.: The Saudis and the Sunni Insurgency
Last one out, please leave the lights on
Zogby, Reynolds, and political bias in academia
Tillman files
Seeing-what-you-want-to-see Dep't
The right place to fight
Projection
Blasphemy
Making old, poor smokers pay for children's health care
Rudy vs. the Church
Cured!
Laffer curve follies
"Believe this, not because it is true, but for some other reason"
Leaving Iraq
Rationing health care
Ethnic confusion
Wedging the GOP
Subpoena Cheney!
"Despicable"
Tort Law 101: A Reply to Jane Galt
Sen. Vitter and the Eighth Amendment
My Favorite Libby Commentary So Far
Bainbridge v. Chemerinsky: A High-Class Smackdown
Fred Thompson, political prostitute
The Gonzales Denounement--You Heard It Here First
Sen. Vitter obeys the mitzvah of Gen. 1:28 ...
La cravate a la lanterne!
Libby, not Taylor
Crime, lead, and Rudy
More on Live Earth
Global Warming Concerts
Can he get away with it?
More on Ted Nugent
Oooops!
Is Bush a conservative?
Fehlleistung
Gene patent snafu
Chinese ship of state without charts or a compass
Fred Thompson, fink and liar
I give up
The Two Minutes' Hate, rock'n'roll style
The Libby Commutation: Let's have some hearings!
You-read-it-here-first dep't
How to save the Imperial Vice-President
Karmic payback?
Cass Sunstein and Judicial Minimalism: The Blindness of the Brilliant
What next in the Siegelman scandal?
Seven years, four months for Siegelman
Wonk Smackdown--Drug Price Policy Edition
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes II
Gordon Brown, P.M
Patriotism and folly
...on the playing fields of somewhere-or-other
Libby and Siegelman
Calvinball, Dick Cheney, and Orin Kerr
Cloture passes, 64-35
Do U.S. consumers support world pharmaceutical innovation?
How low can they go?
Killing Castro, and finding a lock-picker for Howard Hunt
Misreading Plato
Bonds instead of filters for spam control
Stalinism in the White House
Misdirection
The deaths in the pottery barn
Not-sure-you-meant-it-to-sound-that-way Dep't
Resignation in (personal) protest
Your Moment of Zen
Fred Thompson and Watergate
A part of the U.S. Attorney scandal people can understand
The shades of generals
The Solution to the Imperial Vice Presidency
Against the "greedhead Giuliani" theory
On the fallibility of memory
The dynamics of deterrence
Words and music
No, Giuliani didn't make a coke dealer his SC campaign chair
Competition as a substitute for boycott
Vista, Google, anti-trust, and the smell test
"The few are always the friends of the few"
LBJ, Vietnam, and the Great Society
The 9/10 President: Whatever Happened to Homeland Security?
Blasphemers
Sunday dog blogging
Royal torture
Fun and games with codes
Well, yes
The un-dead
Fearless prediction
"Stand-up guys do time"
Prizes for inventing new drugs?
Just wondering
When thieves fall out ...
Hitting back Dep't
To repairing used planet: $99,928
Cinema news: OWALW on DVD
More on hot gas
Only the best for us
A radical thought experiment in halting climate change
The giggle test
ShouldaWouldaCouldaMighta Dep't
Silly season at the gas pump
Erudition
"Transactional lobbying" and congestion pricing in New York
In a nutshell
"A deep disregard for the rule of law"
Wrong question
A half-intelligent design
Bad reporting: bias, or post-literacy?
Time to exhale
Low blow
Princess Zeka (Trans-Sib 6)
Immigration and the fear-and-greed coalition
Well, we got that right.
Serve fewer courses to nourish more; let the diners in the kitchen and give them aprons.
Economies of scale
He what?? !! ...so he could WHAT??!!!
Law vs. Policy
The Democrats and the scientific estate
GPS monitoring for gang members on parole
Interrogation: torture vs. competence
"A somewhat flexible relationship with reality"
The river Hilok and the birth of life on land (Trans-Sib 5)
Spinning much?
Fred Thompson and Scooter Libby
Shorter Patrick Fitzgerald
A short story of two cities (Trans-Sib 4)
Favorability of the Presidential candidates
Hubris
And we have a winner ...
A bully in the bully pulpit?
Progress in degeneracy
A Memorial Day Message
"Romani ite domum" Dep't
I promessi sposi
Development through a train window (Trans-Sib 3)
Yay, LAT
Nice try. Try again.
"We're helping guys that are trying to kill us"
Narcissism-of-small-differences Dep't
Health care policy vs. health
House Dems vote to ban "bundling"
Flak and flackery
The Clintons and the fountain-pen robbers
Lao Tze Pew (Trans-Sib 2)
More on transit and urban planning
Schwarzenegger maybe doesn't get it after all...
Slow learners at 1600 Penn.
Christmas in May?
Lincoln on the apologists for "torture-lite"
McCain on Romney on the immigration bill
Trans-Sib 1: Ch'in Homeland Security
Fountain-pen robbery, populism, and the 2008 election cycle
Who could pry evengelicals loose from the GOP?
Business flaking on immigration?
Opinions, blogging, and Sturgeon's Law
Notes on 1 Sam 17:1-16: David and Goliath
"Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen"
Are the wheels coming off corn ethanol?
Literary history extended
Best birthday card so far
Wei wu-wei and the art of persuasion
Impersonal personalization
The immigration deal
Statehood for DC?
Efficiency, equality, and education
The Republican debate: random notes
Southern Poverty Law Center on Dobbs
The plot unmasked
Petraeus on torture
Godwin's law and the New Right
$100 million? What for? Who from?
Mitt Romney, boy toy: a correction
Memo to Rudy Giuliani:
Ground Zero health problems
It's official ...
More on Dobbs
Make that "Almost no disclosure"
Query
CBS: Advocacy bad; dishonest advocacy OK
Kudos to RedState
Edsall's irony
Mitt Romney, boy toy
Rudy Giuliani and the corporate drug pushers
To tenure, or not to tenure?
Tenure--The Interminable Debate
The "death tax," the family farm, and Rudy Giuliani
For it before they were against it
Are our moral intuitions irrelevant?
The scope of the moral community: an exchange
Trade and the collective-action problem
Immigration and mangled names
The seven fat years, or the seven lean years?
Rudy Giuliani's generosity
Comparative Presidential job ratings
Targeting conservation policy
Fares and fees
No majority against "partial birth abortion"?
Battlefield ethics in Iraq
Karl Rove an atheist? Spare me!
Worse than that
Just asking
Phil Carter on al-Maliki
Beautiful, isn't it?
Mickey Kaus and David Horowitz: separated at birth?
Stuff-you-can't-make-up Dep't
Is Rudy nuts?
Heckler's veto at CBS
Too bizarre for words
Wolfie's cover-up
Moving an immigration bill
Bush at 28%?
The DC Madam and "hookergate"?
Let's you and him fight
Query: the "Eleventh Commandment"
Enlightened Statesmen
"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear"
Impeachment and the Fifth Amendment
Uh-oh
I suppose telling the truth isn't an option
May Day
Ordinary honesty...
"Remarkable"
How do you say "Monica Goodling" in Arabic?
Deth-th-thpicable, cont'd
CA Dem Convention: Richardson and Dodd
CA Dem Convention: Edwards's speech
Valley-speak in politics
CA Dem Convention: themes and commonalities
Sunday morning: Maxine Waters
Reporters and bloggers
CA Dem update
Abstinence from governing
Obama's speech
Pelosi's speech
What's this about ?
HRC's speech
Saturday morning at the Democratic Convention
The big news from the South Carolina debate...
Clap-trap (claptrap) of the day
On "clap-traps" and claptrap
Is O'Hare going soft?
Yankees going down in flames
Romney: not worth catching bin Laden
Hollow Hope
Wag the Dog
Depersonalized Admissions Processes?
Obama, loose nukes, and good motherhood issues
Haley Barbour's banal evil-doing
Policy and murder
Does life hold anything more?
Isn't it always?
Phil Carter, down the Memory Hole
My very first death threat
Wilful murder
Learning the lesson of Abu Ghraib
Why do you suppose ...
Are Iranians subhuman?
"Conservative" = "Lying racist"? Who knew?
Gonzales hearings
At last, a name for the OPM scandal
Some questions for Mr. Gonzales
The Doolittle raid
Biofuels and global warming
Cognitive dissonance, the War in Iraq, and the War on Terror
Rap and Education
Fill-in-the-blanks quiz
The Rap on Rap
Greg Mankiw on Trickle-Down Theory
Listening with their feet
Good news for atheists and Democrats.
Bad news for nativists.
Religious bigotry at NIH
Corzine and the seat belt
Acts and traits, rights and duties
President Pants-on-Fire
Against Congressional self-help
Maguire: "Deceit and denial in the White House"
Not long for this world
Overplaying their hand
Giuliani's fake federalism
There's a technical term for this.
Still more "voter fraud" fraud
LAT/Bloomberg: Obama now leads all three top Goopers
"The dog ate my email"
Progress
Implementation analysis
Breaking the army
"This is a morally dubious man"
Despair from the GOP
Scary
Buying a house? You're just throwing money away!
Voter fraud fraud
Managing drug-involved probationers
First they came for the crooks...
Bush was against terrorism ...
Don't worry ...
Just in case you were wondering ...
Dana Milbank wallops Alberto Gonzales
Creating Competitive Markets
Prof. Murphy and the watch list: No real story there?
The RBC endorses family values
Concerning "unit cohesion" and the art of rhetoric
The surge is working!
But if we left Iraq right now ...
More on organizing Iowa
9-11 Veterans for Truth?
"A tyranny of ineptitude"
More hearings, please
Rudy the Clueless, nuclear division
"Appalling, if true." Probably false.
"Nobody ever went broke
underestimating the intelligence of the public"
"A liar needs a good memory" ...
The Paulose case: 18 U.S.C. 1001?
Let's have some hearings
We threatened his mother with RAPE?!
Concerning the word "Christian"
Whew!
Rudy the Clueless
War crimes and crimes against humanity
Department of "Huh?"
Dogs and fleas, media division
Josif Vissarionovich Biden?
Wolfie's honey
HaHaHaHaHaHaHa
Rudy of Arabia? George W. Giuliani?
Organizing Iowa: update
OK, I give up
Right!
Why I always fly to "National" Airport in Washington
Organizing Iowa
The money primary: advantage, Obama
And in the fourth quarter, the score is ...
Another thought on the Pelosi trip
The Pelosi trip, the Israeli connection, and AIPAC
Mass v. EPA
Hudathunkit?
SACPA: a case study in mismanagement
Welcoming the turncoats
Ethnic cleansing, 515 years ago
Confirming the Munchkins
Kookery, cont'd
Hiring Kooks?
The Edwards decision
Hicks pleads guilty
DoJ White House liaison takes the Fifth
Pointless meanness, (dis)courtesy of the TSA
Global Warming--A Policy Design Problem
Bonus
"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light"
"We fired the gamekeeper in response to complaints from poachers"
Global warming and the economy
Oversight
63-28
Fair is fair
Off the reservation
Defiance
Impeaching Rove
God is not mocked
Leverage
Everything old is new again
Complacency about public education
Playing chicken with the wrong folks
Backing the wrong horse in Pakistan
Another liberal MSM coverup
Giuliani's firm lobbies for Citgo
Chuck Schumer asks questions
Separation of church and state
Who stands up against torture?
For a proper moralism in politics
Obstruction? Deprivation of honest services?
Inquiring minds want to know
The Christian closet
Bad news and good news and bad news on DADT
The "voter fraud" fraud
Fearing Putin's Russia
Rudy and the Overblown Personnel Matter
Oh, my!
Andy Sabl on torture, teaching, and civil courage
Financial Constraints on the Pardon Power?
The power to pardon and the "no-funds" rider
NY Times calls for Gonzales to quit
"He's gone."
Positive feedbacks and the subprime meltdown
The white evangelical schism
Senator Clinton's opportunity
Jeffreys Derangement Syndrome
Working up the chain in the Overblown Personnel Matter
"Tow the line"
Firefighters un-heart Rudy
Politics as grand opera
"Such another victory and we are lost" dep't
"Never mind!" dep't
Inside the Libby jury room
"No crime"? Not so fast!
Iranian politics and Iranian nukes
I-didn't-know-that Dep't: Launch on Warning
Strategery and national security
"What if Roe goes?"
Guilty
More on the purge
The Maher-Cheney flap
Tanakh Notes: 1 Samuel 28
Do government-haters govern worse?
Of dogs and fleas
Barack Obama and the "religious left"
Max Blumenthal is a genius
The previous U.S. Attorney firing: Fred Black on Guam
Stalinism vs. the rule of law
U.S. Attorneys and the Constitution-in-practice
Coulter and Republican hypocrisy
One chance in four?
The U.S. Attorney purge
and the quest for tyrannical power
Not that anyone really cares, but ...
Remind you of anyone?
Grade inflation update
This just in: U.S. Attorney purge subpoenas
Overdue oversight
Such another victory ...
When grade inflation matters
Concerning zipper problems
Jane Galt sentences Bill Donohue
"Values" and trade
The Stupid Party and its on-line encyclopedia
Firing teachers: the evidence
Tanakh notes: 1 Sam. 27: David, the mass murderer
Right from the start
Romney's great-grandfather's wives: why is this news?
"The Shield of Achilles"
Is Lieberman superfluous?
Blair, Basra, and our "delusional" Veep
Tech manager needed
Ingratitude, mixed messages, and the fog of war
"Welfare reform" without tears? Maybe not
Simile Contest: Dick Cheney edition
Rudy: ask me later
Huckabee recruits Don Young
More on the Iranian threat
Firing teachers, and hiring them
War, caution, and retrospective wisdom
Ignorance in power
Libby betting
Is alcohol a "drug"? Why the question matters
The (pleasant) surprise of a lifetime
Eugene Volokh on assassination and academic freedom
The new Bush drug budget
Abstinence
Schism on the right?
Support the Troops
Cyberflaming
Classicism
"Go figure" dep't
Mutual concern
Hirshleifer Tanakh Group notes: 1 Sam 24 and 26
Glenn Reynolds and genocide
Note to Glenn Reynolds
Steyn backs off
Query for the civility police
A Short Lesson in Serious Conservatism and Right-Wing Hackery
Challenge update
Mark Steyn's Final Solution to the Euro-Muslim Problem
The Pledge
Errata
Prison rape and libertarian theorizing
Bill Frist in Democratic dress
Oooops!
No Christianist votes for Rudy or Newt?
Bigot v. bigot
As True Now...
Was Valerie Plame Wilson's employment classified information?
A challenge to Red Blogistan
Don Young: let's hang Abraham Lincoln
Obama, the counter-puncher
One-to-go update: skeletons in Mike Huckabee's closet
What to do about concentrated violence
More support for the troops ...
Carole Lam and Archibald Cox
I can't vouch for this ...
I-didn't-know-that Dep't
One down, one to go
Man bites dog
In defense of the "religious left"
Query
More fiscal hokum from the right
John Howard, Barack Obama, and Right Blogistan
Yesssssss!
Dollar coin update
The Keystone ExeKutioners
In case you were wondering ...
Obama's in
Girls, boys, bioethics, chastity, and the HPV vaccine
(Bad) benefit-cost analysis and the HPV vaccine
Pre-9/11 thinking
Service and quality
Helicopters and irony
The Right-to-Cancer movement
Dissing low-wage jobs
The Republicans v. Dr. Seuss
The Iraq filibuster and the press
Another word on Stimson
Form and substance
The ideal issue
Going to do another war to prove we won the first one?
Easiest Post EVER
Puzzle solved?
Anti-Semites and Anti-anti-semites
Is that before or after the Twelfth of Never?
Anti-clericalism in America
Hirsleifer Tanakh group notes: 1 Sam. 23-24
Lowering the temperature of the abortion debate
The Obama Plan: why not a surge?
Better drug policy in nineteen easy steps
Tone and style
Gonzales on habeas: two views
Mushrooms and mystical experience
Moral clarity
Thanks for explaining that
Webb in '08?
Dr. Orwell, call your office
Brother Souljah?
Unsurprisingly ...
Just asking
Is Moqtada backing down?
Sad, but true
Obama on health care
Nuclear power and its discontents
What role for nuclear energy?
Senator, Call Your Office
Waist Deep in the Big Slimey
Military opinion about the war:
Jim Webb's secret source
Combat veteran 1, chickenhawk speechwriter 0
McCain gets one right
Why does the complexion of the Libby jury matter?
Webb hits it out of the park
Semi-live blogging the SOTU
On Efficiency
SOTU: Not even trying anymore
Vindication
Good news and bad
Does the Post like being lied to?
Stanley Fish on the George W. Bush Presidential Library
Cell phones and cancer again
Bush in Nixon territory: 28% job approval
Five sweet rollcalls: not a bad start
Seeing blue elephants
Good news or bad in Iraq?
Hirshleifer Tanakh group notes:
1 Sam. 16-24
Shredding the Constitution (cont'd)
Is there a reporter in the house?
Attorney General: no right to habeas corpus
The ghost of torture past
More on Prices and Health Care: Partial Snark Edition
Bush polls
The Big Easy isn't coming back
Price and cost in health care (cont'd)
Health care prices and costs
Born to regress
Now What?
Meet the 2008 Republican nominee
Budget nonsense from Right Blogistan
Just a suspicion
Vietnam, the Democrats and foreign policy--II
Dr. Pynchon, call your office
Reality intrudes
A symmetry of evil in Iraq?
Life in prison for adultery: Piling the ironies high
Cutting the Deficit: A Modest Proposal
I hope you had a good MLK Day
Is Al Gore just as wrong as ExxonMobil? No.
The limits of Congressional power
20,000 more troops to support ethnic cleansing?
A regional war after a U.S. pullout?
The MSM and science: your cell phone will kill you!
Unserious
Obstruction of justice?
Nice work, if you can get it
Due process?
We don't need no stinkin' due process!
When did the Brookings Institution
become the Heritage Foundation?
With lawyers like this, who needs lawyer jokes?
A coup in Baghad?
On not publicly planning to fail
Vietnam, the Democrats and foreign policy
Military quackery
Ego and leadership
More on the escalation and the Constitution
Department of "huh?"
Iraq and Sicily
Possibilities
The Anti-Deficiency Act and the surge
Putting on the tinfoil hat again
Jane Doe, Navy wife, and her abortion
Reality creep
A glimpse into the mind of Condi
Ouch!
Hail Mary
Sure, GWB is stark raving mad ...
Iraqi government is anti-surge
A new sheriff in town
Israel-Palestine potential breakthrough?
I give up:
The surge WAS a dumb idea after all.
Amniotic stem cells
"Enemy of the State"?!
Bring-it-on Dep't
Another megalomaniac walks his people into a big muddy
Schwarzenegger and health care: Don't get greedy
Politics of the absurd?
It's over
CFLs again (revised 10AM PST Sun)
Just asking
Torture at home
Is Bush more popular than Pelosi?
The "no funds" rider
George W. Nixon
Dietary restrictions
Commercializing the public weal
We're back
Party of Ideas
WalMart greening up
Argillaceous pedal extremities
Political art
"Sacrifice"
Saddam to hang: six random comments
Cheating the ghouls
Comments down
Fake, but accurate?
New Year's Eve party (5 pm - 9 pm)
The instrument is not the crime
Policy analysis final exam
Afghan heroin in L.A. and the heroin price collapse
Feeling Safer Yet?--Part I
Revolving-door justice in Los Angeles
GPS and community corrections
In other Christmas news....
Christmas card to Ayatollah Sistani
Back in Action
Principles of Policy Analysis: Final Exam
Of course they're all terrorists ...
Edwards leading McCain in trial heat
Solving the wrong problem
For photographers
Atatürk's genocide?
Health tip
National Journal still catching up to the blogosphere
A pleasant surprise
The crack/powder disparity: a way out?
Invitations
The Jefferson problem
€1 = $1.33
For fossil-fuel taxation
The Litvinenko murder: what now?
Portmantomes: the sequel
Obama for President
More Portmatomes
The dynamics of deterrence
Expression and Uniforms
Winter ethanol policy
Insulting speech in and out of schools
Insulting speech in schools
Axis-of-evil Dep't
The "80% plan" for Iraq
I-take-it-back Dep't
Cut and walk?
More about money
Bring back the OTA
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
The GOP Agenda: Permanent Constitutional Crisis
Pelosi comes to her senses
The bear that walks like a man
Let's take a look at Romney
Deja vu all over again
Pelosi's choice on Intel
Bob Novak sticks the shiv in
Behind the times
Something to be thankful for
The art of the policy memo
Toward civility
Edsall on Roy Blunt::
"A gift that will keep on giving"
The Sad Story of the Dollar Coin
One more big push
Tasers at UCLA
Restoring the liberal brand
No, no, no, no, NO!
The phony fliers: can't Mfume sue?
Football and the elections
Lessons from Vietnam
Poetic justice
Eating liberally (one last time)
Hoyer beats Murtha
Stern report 3: sensitivities, sceptics, and Doomsday
The House Majority Leader's Race: 3 Comments
Query: the military vote
Are the bishops backing off
on denying communion
to pro-choice politicians?
Stern report 2: the ABC
Organizational Mobilization
Leveling the playing field
Americans love underdogs ...
"Bankruptcy reform" reform
Risk-spreading and the entrepreneurial spirit
The Long Term
The evangelical vote
Waffenstillstand
Open up the VA health care system?
None else of name
CAFE Pile-On
The carbon-for-payroll tax trade
What's wrong with CAFE standards
The Agenda, Part XXX
The Zasloff Addendum
Coincidence
Four More for The Agenda
Eating liberally
Elections reform
Stern report 1: why has Sir Humphrey turned green?
A Democratic Agenda
Happy days ARE here again
The Sequence
Wish I'd said that
Looking very good
An informed electorate
Comity and the Great Uniter
Rummy quits
Tester claims victory
Learning from Niger
Happy days are here again?
Final Thoughts Before Bed
Do not despair
Virginia--Ugh
Compassionate conservatism
"Mission Accomplished" down the Memory Hole
Portmantomes...
Harassment and intimidation thread
Money talks, bullsh*t walks
Bechtel follows the rats
Robo-harassment hits the big time
(in a small way)
BAD news
Who's in charge here?
Reporting voting problems
Race tightening?
It's official
Weighed in the balance
A Rum(my) do
Beyond Kafka
Sen. George Allen (R.-Kazakhstan)
80% of the way toward chaos
Cutting and running from Sadr City
Scenario
"This unseemly circus"
But .... but .... but ....
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
"Voter fraud" fraud
Down the Memory Hole
The illusion of choice
The homeowner and the fire
What's really wrong with Wal-Mart
A modest proposal for campaign finance reform
Walmart Welfare
The times, they are a-changin'
(Wal-Mart division)
Slowdown
Eating liberally in DC
Another district tilting D
Who killed the firefighters?
Scholarship for blogging
A crook as well as a murderer
Bringing democracy to the Middle East
Pleasant reading