In Praise of Jane Hamsher, et al: Redefining the Art of the Possible
Jane Hamsher has been taking a lot of flak in recent days for coming out against the Senate health care reform bill as well as for suggesting that “both the [progressive opponents] and the tea party...
View ArticleThe Boss Tweed-ization of national politics
“Reformers should be focusing on lifting limits on the flow of money from parties to candidates and restoring the role of the parties as the funders of campaigns. Instead of Candidate Smith asking...
View ArticleThe weak presidency
Via Jonathan Chait, the other other Jonathan* – Jonathan Bernstein, not Jonathan Cohn – has a handy rebuttal to this Greenwald post. Greenwald, whose admirable passion may have gotten ahead of his...
View ArticleThe Irresponsible Media Who Ruin Lives and the Unnamed “Senior Officials” Who...
[UPDATED BELOW THE FOLD] The Big Story yesterday and, to a lesser extent, today was the arrest of two legal Yemeni immigrants on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. The pair, one of whom now...
View ArticleClass/Cultural reactions to the tea party
I’ve been out of the loop a bit these past couple weeks, helping out peripherally on a local primary race, and afterward just needing a few days to kind of process some thoughts without writing. I...
View ArticleNarrative Over Principle: The Perils of Believing Your Own Propaganda
I’ve not got a whole heck of a lot to add to this very good paragraph from Glenn Greenwald on the whole hubbub over the propriety of the Obama Administration’s entirely speculative suggestions (with...
View ArticleOne more post about Juan Williams and then I’m done
This controversy has eaten up my whole day, so I won’t spend much more time on it. Glenn Greenwald has some thoughts up at his blog that I very much disagree with even though on most matters of...
View ArticleAnti-Muslim Bigotry & Double Standards
Except that I do not think the Juan Williams Incident qualifies as outright bigotry, I do agree with Greenwald on this point: The double standard in our political discourse — which tolerates and even...
View ArticleThe Nation defends TSA against Evil Koch Brothers
This Nation piece is a ludicrous exercise in silly partisanship. Mark Ames and Yasha Levine go to great length to show just how all this crazy outrage over TSA agents groping people – including...
View ArticleCircling the Drain in the NSA Surveillance Debate
(The middle section of this post is a thorough re-statement and critique of David Simon’s argument that their are few “legitimate” concerns that can be raised regarding the NSA’s collection of metadata...
View ArticleAnd Then Glenn Greenwald’s Partner was Detained
According to The Guardian, David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under...
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