Jamelle Bouie

The Joe Biden vice presidency has been very good for The Onion: Presumably, this retreat took place after Biden took some time off to cool his heels in Mexico. — Jamelle Bouie

The Economist sees a surprising success in last year’s auto bail-out: Lovers of free markets (including The Economist) feared that Mr Obama might use GM as a political tool: perhaps favouring the unions who donate to Democrats or forcing the firm to build smaller, greener cars than consumers want to buy. The label “Government Motors” […]

David Broder likes Mitch Daniels: Back in Washington, the luxury of having a thoughtful presidential contender was striking for everyone hearing Daniels. The onetime Reagan White House political director and Bush White House budget chief is not your run-of-the-mill intellectual. His style is to be down-home, but his record of accomplishment is dazzling. As does […]

The election is in a few weeks, and Democrats are scrambling to boost African American turnout: Without Mr. Obama atop the ticket this year, Mr. Kissell and a number of other vulnerable Democrats, mostly in the rural South, face the challenge of reviving the spirit of 2008 for black voters without alienating right-leaning white majorities […]

If you have a few minutes to spare, you should watch Jack Black in “The Mis-Informant.” The funniest part is when Glenn Beck gets owned by an 8-year-old girl. — Jamelle Bouie

Yesterday saw a federal hate-crimes conviction in Scranton, Pennsylvania: Two men on trial in a Pennsylvania federal court in connection with the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant have been found guilty on all counts, including hate crimes. […] “Four people attacked one person because of his race and because they didn’t want people […]

In the current issue of The Forum, Georgetown political scientist Hans Noel has an excellent piece on political myths called “The Ten Things Political Scientists Know That You Don’t.” It’s lengthy, something you should set aside for when you have some spare time during the day, but it’s worth reading in full. That said, there […]

This doesn’t strike me as a big surprise: A federal judge in Florida has allowed key parts of a lawsuit against the federal health care overhaul to proceed, presaging a long legal battle over the legislation. Judge Roger Vinson of Florida’s Northern District, a Reagan appointee, ruled that two elements of a lawsuit brought by […]

At the Tea Party 9/12 rally, a libertarian-minded student from UCLA took the time to snap a photo of each sign present. As the Washington Post reports, she found little in the way of racism: Ekins photographed about 250 signs, and more than half of those she saw reflected a “limited government ethos,” she found […]

Yes, progressives are frustrated with the White House for its occasional timidity, but they would do well to take a page from Nancy Pelosi and direct a little more of their anger at the Senate: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged progressives and pundits alike not punish House Democrats in the 2010 elections for […]