Adam Serwer

Rush Limbaugh compares Obama to Jefferson Davis. Allen West(!) slams Republicans for playing games with military pay. Marcy Wheeler on the administration’s Libya memo. Looks like the conservative candidate in the Wisconsin judicial race will prevail after all.

Pat Garofalo offers this chart showing the Democrats have already met Republicans more than half way on spending cuts: Mostly a reminder that Democrats are constantly begging to be allowed to surrender to Republicans who won’t allow themselves to declare victory.

Matthew Yglesias reminds us, in the context of today’s fight over Planned Parenthood, of Mitt Romney‘s eloquent 2002 defense of abortion rights, in which he tells a story about his mother: Moving stuff from the potential 2012 GOP front-runner.

Republicans are ready to shut down the government over Title X funds for Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that PP does not use federal funds for abortion. While that will curtail access to basic health services for millions of American women, Planned Parenthood isn’t the only reproductive health organization that would be harmed. Republicans also […]

Slate‘s Jacob Weisberg recently joined the Rep. Paul Ryan cheering section, writing a column in which he referred to Ryan’s budget proposal eviscerating the social safety net as “brave, radical, and smart.” Then last night he thought better of it and tweeted: People seem to think I like Ryan plan, which I don’t. I like […]

The Associated Press reported today on the existence of classified detention sites being run by the Joint Special Operations Command in Afghanistan, where detainees are held for weeks in secret for the purposes of interrogation. Daphne Eviatar, a senior associate at Human Rights First, recently interviewed several former detainees who had been held at these […]

Remember the case of 19 year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who was arrested by the FBI after participating in a fake plot to bomb a Christmas-tree lighting in Portland, Oregon? The FBI appears to have messed up a key part of their evidence in the case: The FBI’s attempt in July to record Mohamed Mohamud’s first […]

A lot of people were shocked yesterday by this poll by PPP showing that about half of Republican primary voters in Mississippi think interracial marriage should be illegal. The sample size was a bit small, but if the survey is accurate, it’s pretty startling. We asked voters on this poll whether they think interracial marriage […]

Radley Balko skewers the Senate’s bipartisan porn panic. Ben Jealous makes the fiscal argument for prison reform. Time to talk to the Taliban. Karl Smith has figured out how to make Rep. Paul Ryan‘s economic assumptions work. Dana Goldstein on Kathie Black and her successor, Dennis Wolcott.

This afternoon I was leaked a copy of the OPR report on the New Black Panther Party case, which I’ve posted on over at Greg‘s. Key point here is that the NBPP team failed to do due diligence on their own case, causing the leadership to distrust the strength of the suit. That, not some […]