Ezra Klein

Shakespeare’s Sister has a good post on the McCain-Bayh bill that’d allow military recruits to fulfill part of their service obligations in the Peace Corps. Apparently, the program was popped into the Defense Bill from a couple years ago and, well, funny thing, no one ever informed the Peace Corps. Whoops. I’m a little conflicted […]

Great post over at the Health Law Prof’s blog summarizing a recent American Journal of Public Health article on immigrant usage of our health system. We’ve all heard, I’m sure, that our rise in health costs and the difference between us and other societies is our enormous immigrant population, which is to say that the […]

The Washington Post has an extraordinary five-page report on torture today. In this case, it’s not just the crime, but the cover-up: Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning […]

A bit too hard, it seems. When President Bush kept repeating how tough his job was during the primaries, maybe we should have relieved him of it. Instead, he’s decided to blow it off for a bit: President Bush is getting the kind of break most Americans can only dream of — nearly five weeks […]

Good comment by Hunter, and one that Democrats should take pretty seriously: A 70% Republican district was turned into an edge-of-your-seat race — I’d have liked to win the thing outright too, but realistically, these results are fantastic. Make them battle for every seat, in every state. Use our grassroots to bleed the Republican money […]

It should be no shocker to hear Paul Hackett fell a bit short in his congressional bid last night. No, what should make you short of breath and leave the children open-mouthed in awe is that he only lost by 4%. 4%! In a district that generally goes Republican by 65%-75%, we lost by 4%! […]

Matt has the best comment I’ve seen on the hilarious-yet-deranged conservacomic series that us liberals have spent the last two days chortling over: I think this sort of thing actually tells us something important about contemporary politics. It’s rather odd to see persecution fantasies coming from the right at a moment when Republicans control the […]

Whether you’re comfortable with America’s gaping income inequality or not, I think we can all agree that this really shouldn’t be happening: People whose net worth is over $70,000, the median in the United States, are 30 percent less likely than poorer people to feel pain at the end of their lives, a difference that […]

This bit from RedState.org is fairly illustrative of what the election in Ohio-02 will turn on: Hackett is a far left Democrat using his experience in the military to beat up the President and the war. According to Hackett, Bush saying “Bring ’em on!” was “the most incredibly stupid comment I’ve ever heard a president […]

Joe Biden’s op-ed on the dangers posed by chemical attack is worth a read, not just for its terrorism implications, but what it says about the Bush administration’s priorities: The Chlorine Institute has estimated that an assault on a chlorine tanker could create a toxic cloud extending up to 15 miles. If this poisonous fog […]