YES HE MAKES A GOOD TIRAMISU, BUT WHAT ARE HIS VIEWS ON ROE? We know Karl Rove and the Bush administration gave briefings on Republican chances in the 2006 elections to at least 15 agencies, including many that are ostensibly nonpartisan. Clearly this is bad and likely illegal, but beyond that I’m a little confused […]
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Sam Boyd is a former assistant web editor at the Prospect.
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SLIGHTLY UNDERHANDED POLITICAL IDEA OF THE DAY.
SLIGHTLY UNDERHANDED POLITICAL IDEA OF THE DAY. The Washington Post reports today that the USDA makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year in farm subsidy payments to dead people. Prospect blogger Dean Baker points out that this is slightly overblown since the actual cost is about 52 cents a year to each American. Nonetheless, […]
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Crafting a Better Political Apology
Why politicians apologize badly, and how they could improve. (Are you paying attention, David Vitter?)
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SUBSCRIPTIONS.
SUBSCRIPTIONS. TPM Election Central has gone through each campaign’s filings to determine which publications they subscribed to in the last Month. As it turns out, Barack Obama is the only candidate to subscribe to the Nevada papers, Rudy Guliani subscribes to “A&E television networks” and everyone blew a heck of a lot of money on […]
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GENDER: A GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR HILLARY BUT NOT THE ONLY REASON.
GENDER: A GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR HILLARY BUT NOT THE ONLY REASON. Ezra criticizes my earlier post, saying that “insofar as it assumes that gender would be an insufficient reason to support Hillary Clinton.” Insofar as Ezra is saying we should never vote for white men, I disagree with him too — he just […]
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JOHN EDWARDS ECHOES HIS WIFE.
JOHN EDWARDS ECHOES HIS WIFE. On Hardball last night John Edwards defended his wife’s criticisms of Hillary Clinton: On Elizabeth saying he is a better advocate for women than HRC: “It is not shocking that my wife is for me. I am proud to have her support. I hope I get her vote too. … […]
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ELIZABETH EDWARDS SLINGS SOME MUD.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS SLINGS SOME MUD. In a recent Salon interview (via Marc Ambinder) Elizabeth Edwards unloads some really harsh and, to my mind, mostly unfair criticisms of Hillary Clinton and, to a lesser extent, Barack Obama: Look, I’m sympathetic, because when I worked as a lawyer, I was the only woman in these rooms, too, […]
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I’LL TAKE THAT BET.
I’LL TAKE THAT BET. Bill Kristol may or may not actually believe that Bush will be judged as a successful president, as Ezra points out, but in order to appear at least somewhat credible he has to at least pretend to believe it. The one sure way to find out if someone really believes something […]
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WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH RICK PERLSTEIN’S ESSAY?
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH RICK PERLSTEIN’S ESSAY? Rick Perlstein is one of my favorite journalists, and I read his excellent blog religiously. So I was excited when I found out that he had written an article for the New York Times Magazine about the university I currently attend. Unfortunately, I found the article itself deeply […]
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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SIGN OF GROWING INEQUALITY.
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SIGN OF GROWING INEQUALITY. The New York Times reports today that, contrary to what we’ve been told in recent months, the housing market is actually doing fine. Unfortunately, this is only the case if you happen to own a very expensive home: It is one of the expensive suburbs of San Francisco […]