Ezra Klein

I’m participating in a quarterly right-left debate tomorrow. Format is three people each side doing the debate, with each responsible for a two minute statement on a topic besides. I’ve got secularism. I don’t know much about it, so if you guys have any resources on church-state separation plus founding fathers stuff, it’d be a […]

Hate to say it, but I think we’re remarkably close to getting screwed by Bush and Holy Joe, and we’re not even thinking about why. Lieberman found himself ignominiously rejected during the 2004 primaries, basically ignored during the election, branded a traitor during the Gonzales vote, and then viewed as an enemy on Social Security. […]

Brad Plumer, in a post on the nauseating Hilla bombing, notes that a car bomb has to be pretty fucking big to push the death toll over a 100 people, and so there’s probably an al-Qaqaa connection here though, he says, there’s probably not much point in revisiting the issue. True enough, but wouldn’t it […]

Ouch. Deleting 900 words that took you an hour to write is never fun. But when you’re approaching a thousand and you’re still not sure if anyone will catch what you’re talking about, it generally means your point is muddled and it’s time to put the kill on it. So I did. Suffice to say […]

Julie Saltman is wondering how Republicans will oppose the obviously-popular provisions of the Count Every Vote Act. The answer is through the magic of Congress! If every piece of introduced legislation had to face an up-or-down vote at polls, CEVA would pass in a landslide. But not only won’t it find itself in front of […]

Michelle Malkin thinks emo music exists to promote the “cutting culture”. That’s awesome. Michelle Malkin has got to be the most unintentionally hilarious pundit in America, and I’m an enormous fan of her continuing efforts to outpace pretenders to the throne. Jonah’s dorkiness is too self-aware while David Brooks’s pop-sociology too easily parodied — they […]

Thanks, of course, go out to Shakespeare’s Sister for the wonderful job she did this weekend. If you’re not already, you should be reading her blog regularly.

Sometimes my initial reaction to condemn conservative idiocy as pernicious and malevolent and dangerous is just overcome by awe at the weird hypocrisy of it all. This is one of those times: The government has told a federal appeals court that a suit by an F.B.I. translator who was fired after accusing the bureau of […]

The other day, I asked Matt Singer to comment on a Montana state senator’s bill to tax “big-box retailers” that refuse to pay a living wage. And so he did.

That’s all for me, folks. I’m buttoning my collar back up and heading back to the comments threads (and my own place). I’m off to Chicago for a day of Oscar-related shenanigans. I’m on a 10-year winning spree with my Oscar picks, and I need to defend my title. Thanks for letting me invade your […]