Ezra Klein

Via the Stakeholder, all I can is Wow: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s footing among his constituents has slipped drastically during the past year and a majority of his district disapproves of how he handled the Terri Schiavo case, according to a Houston Chronicle poll. Nearly 40 percent of the 501 voters questioned Wednesday through […]

On a personal (vaguely non-politicial) note, I find the whole idea of viewing bodies lying in state quite creepy. There’s something kind of disturbing about this photograph here. Maybe Catholic readers will think differently. If so, I’d be interested in knowing why. When I was in Russia in the late 1990s, I remember going to […]

Powerline’s Hindrocket has a strange post about an apparent error that the NYTimes made in posting its article about the pope’s death. They seem to have accidentally published it before it was finished, and so it read as follows: Even as his own voice faded away, his views on the sanctity of all human life […]

Our new hobby is writing letters to people that are sure to disregard us. Today’s letter is to the Washington Times with regard to their coverage of a study on the political orientation of university faculty. We talk about it here and here, and Ezra talks about it here. The study itself is problematic (more […]

It’s important that Dems play their cards right on Tom DeLay’s statement from the other day. There’s been a lot of talk about the not-quite-veiled threat that it represent: Mrs. Schiavo’s death is a moral poverty and a legal tragedy. This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection […]

Over at TAPPED, guest-poster Dave Meyer takes on Russ Feingold’s rationale for dithering over Bolton and concludes: Without being too dismissive, Feingold’s principled position comes off as a bit quaint. He wants the president to be able to pick his own team both so that he can trust his advisers and so that the people […]

I’m not Catholic, and I don’t have any particular allegiance to the pope; but call me old-fashioned, I tend to think we should have a sense of propriety about a dying public figure. Here’s from last night’s Larry King. I’m not making it up: KING: Joining us now on the phone is former First Lady […]

Posting relief this weekend will be Michael and Heather from Here’s What’s Left. I’ll be saying stuff too, but you’re used to that already. Onward.

In presenting his case for why Howard Dean’s determination to make George Lakoff the Democratic Frank Luntz is the wrong strategy, Brad Plumer forgets to mention why it’s completely insane. Geroge Lakoff — I’m sorry to say — is absolutely horrible at framing things. No, I mean it, the guy is atrociously fucking bad at […]

Via Paul Waldman, look what Saint Rudy’s been up to: on Feb. 9 in Columbia, S.C. Mr. Giuliani had initially been booked by the South Carolina Hospital Association through the Washington Speakers Bureau to speak for his usual $100,000 fee. But then a massive tsunami devastated South Asia and “we just didn’t feel that a […]