This seems like the sort of attack that will do some damage to the GOP’s current frontrunners: What do you make of candidates like Giuliani, Romney and McCain—all of whom have moved to the right on social issues? The first thing is: imitation is the most serious form of flattery. Some are having a late […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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A Pardon?
Even though sentencing won’t occur for awhile yet, attention is turning to Libby’s prospects for a presidential pardon once Bush leaves office. I doubt it. Bush has never been one to keep loyalty a two-way street. It’s long been his M.O to cut loose even the most faithful of servants after they outlive their usefulness. […]
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Poor Huck
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Amidst the discussions of why Mike Huckabee can’t catch fire, one issue I haven’t seen raised yet is money. Having annoyed the economic royalist faction of the GOP by raising taxes as governor, he’s not well-positioned to raise the cash he’ll need to become a top-tier candidate. Money matters even […]
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The Libby Trial
Since I’m operating behind a novocain haze, I’m outsourcing my commentary on the Libby verdict to Kevin Drum. The context here is that the Libby trial was really about the administration’s efforts to spin the pre-war intelligence, in this case by smearing Joe Wilson when he cast doubt on Iraq’s capabilities. But Libby has actually […]
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Gone Root Canalin’
Back tomorrow, at which point I’ll expect sympathy. Update: Oy. But to the commenter who suggested I bring an iPod to the operation, you deserve a MacArthur Grant for Nobel prize winners in the category of genius.
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On Macho, Macho Men And Manly, Unshaven Girls
[litbrit speaking] I really liked Glen Greenwald’s take on the (latest) Ann Coulter bit of blather. He discusses a conversation on Fox last night between Kirsten Powers, Bill O’Reilly and Michelle Malkin; Malkin makes the observation that Coulter is “very popular among conservatives”, and Greenwald makes the following point: This is why — the only […]
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Better Living Through Better Googling
Tyler Cowen quotes one of his readers saying: [Americans] can get “cheap” European care if they like, just create extremely bad American HMO insurance, or don’t buy health care at all and go to Public hospitals. The reason the European systems are cheaper is not that they magically have less costs, it is that they […]
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RUDY’S DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD.
RUDY’S DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD. So there’s no doubt that Rudy derives a certain degree of his star power from the fact that he honed his personality and publicity skills in one of the media capitals of the world. But I’m struck by the sheer level of skepticism reporters I chat with evince towards his chances, even […]
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How About Some More China
by Stephen of the Thinkery Interesting news about religion coming out of China. East China Normal University conducted a poll on religious belief among the Chinese, and estimates that 31.4% of all Chinese over 16 are religious believers. This puts the number of believers at approximately 400 million. What’s interesting about this poll is that […]