Ezra Klein

Rob Garver’s piece in the American Prospect examining George Allen’s pre-presidential embrace of Pat Robertson doesn’t go far enough, I think. Allen isn’t some moderate do-gooder bowing to the realities of the Republican party and forcing himself to slobber on some theocrat’s rings, he’s been playing this game for a long, long, time. His ascendence […]

The U.N. Relief Director has hit the newspapers in an effort to drum up some political pressure for American help on African crises. Apparently, our compassionate conservatism is not quite being compassionate enough. I’ve excerpted a portion of his interview after the jump, you really need to read it to understand how bad things are […]

Political Wire reports that Bob Taft has the lowest approval rating of any governor in the nation. His approval rating is 19%, which is remarkably, terribly awful for a governor in a state where he has no major scandal, no major initiatives, no major…anything. He’s crossed the boundary from nonentity to nega-entity. The fact is […]

Campus Progress just posted an article of mine exploring those home-schooled, deeply religious youngsters who keep getting publishing contracts and syndication deals despite a lack of noticeable talent (save maybe Ben Ferguson, who seems reasonably on top of things). I’m pretty happy with the piece, which also covers Michelle Malkin, Ward Connerly, and all the […]

For LA readers, Jesse and I will be hanging at Maloney’s in Westwood tonight, starting at about 9. C’mon down if you’re interested. The address is: 1000 Gayley Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024 You can find a map here. E-mail me if you have any questions.

Bill Frist is setting up to use the nuclear option on Priscilla Owen, according to the Washington Times. The entire judicial nomination fight is an example of insider politics taking over real-world consideration – Democrats haven’t paid for opposition to or obstruction of judicial nominees, largely because the nominees held back are in positions that […]

So it looks like Tom DeLay may just be the first scalp Jack Abramoff can hang on his jail cell’s wall. According to the Prospect, Bob Ney was on the take as well. Interesting stuff. If the Republicans were smart, they’d create the toughest, sharpest-toothed Ethics Committee the House has ever seen and turn the […]

So speaketh Dennis Prager, in part XII of his written-for-eventually-remaindered-publication book, “Judeo-Christian Values”. Now ask any Jew, religious or secular, “What is the Jewish mission?” and the most likely response will be: “What do you mean?” Most religious Jews rarely talk about a Jewish mission. Rather, they are preoccupied with survival: of the Jewish religion […]

QandO shows us what being a libertarian is all about: Let’s talk about health care for a minute. Health care is certainly a need, but it is not a right. And all the high sounding rhetoric in the world that says otherwise is baloney. And just like that, the right to health care is disproven. […]

I’m not one to buy into the smug pronouncements Jonah Goldberg hands down venerating the deep philosophical roots of conservatism and the Vulcan mind-meld each young Republican performs with Burke and Kristol, but, if nothing else, it’s certainly true that the conservative ideology is treated as a topic more worthy of study than its liberal […]