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Former U.S. Attorney Defames Hobbits 27 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
This is just bizarre. For some unfathomable reason, James O’Keefe attempted to harass the U.S. Attorney whose office brought phone tampering charges against him awhile back. And the ex-attorney wasn’t...
No Shame 26 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
There’s a lot of talk about intervening in Syria. I have no idea what’s going to happen in Syria, or even what ought to happen in Syria, but my sense of the situation is that there’s no “good” side. A...
The White Supremacist End Game 25 Aug 2013 | 08:18 am
I normally agree with Brian Beutler, but I think he fell short with The right’s black crime obsession. Which is not to say that the Right doesn’t have a black crime obsession; it certainly does. And I...
The Great March Plus 50 24 Aug 2013 | 11:34 pm
It’s been 50 years since the historic voters’ rights march in Washington. Rep. John Lewis spoke 50 years ago, and he spoke again today. Tweet
The Stop Obamacare End Game 24 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
The new bright, shiny thing in Republican land is the notion that they really really might could get the Obamacare individual mandate delayed for a year or two. Kimberly Strassel writes in the Wall St...
Water 22 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
A few days ago I saw this story about a Texas town that lost its water supply to fracking. Thirty more towns could lose water by the end of this year. I wrote a post about this on the other blog. Tex...
A Data Base Is a Data Base 21 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
My dad was an intelligent, honest, sober, hard-working man who loved his family fiercely. I want to make that clear, because in the cosmic father lottery I think I got lucky. Dad’s biggest weakness w...
Lessons of Egypt 21 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am
Slate has an article by an Egyptian activist pondering where the revolution went wrong. The main enemy of the people has always been the security state—the police and the military. We will never get ...
The Republican War on Smarts 19 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
It’s no secret that the Right wants to dismantle public education and replace it with a for-profit, private education system. They may not all admit that’s the plan, but the plan is too obvious to ign...
Understanding Egypt 19 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
I can’t say I quite understand everything going on in Egypt, but here are some articles I found helpful, in no particular order – Juan Cole, Egypt’s Waco; It’s not about Democracy: Top Ten Reasons Wa...
