Ezra Klein

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Yeah, the title was too rhymeriffic to resist. I liked this description of a NRSC fundraiser: The tables were loaded with untouched platters of food as Senator Elizabeth Dole rose this week to introduce her party’s Senate candidate from Nebraska. Sixty people were supposed to be at the fund-raiser, but […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math A bit of emergency filling-in here …: Shorter Andrew Sullivan: The fact that Al Gore could not persuade the few petrostate Democrats to pass a BTU tax in 1993, or convince the Senate to ratify Kyoto in 1997, makes his call to action on global warming less credible. We […]

I’m just going to take the day off — be back tomorrow, presumably with stuff to say.

Sorry for the slow posting this morning — just swamped. I’ll get some content up after lunch.

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf The North Carolina Superior Court just struck down a centuries-old state law making it a misdemeanor for boyfriends and girlfriends to live together while unmarried. The Supreme Court decision to overturn state sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas was cited as precedent. Pam has more, including a list of the […]

(Posted by John.) Billmon raises an excellent question.

(Posted by John.) Vinod Khosla presents the argument for replacing gasoline with ethanol. (Google Video link.) Robert Rapier with the argument against. I don’t really have time at the moment to go in to each, but I generally side with Robert, who elsewhere on his blog has pointed out that the single most important factor […]

Shakes here… Tim Russert interviews White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten about the president’s asinine and inconsistent stem cell policies…and it’s a total train wreck. It’s so bad, in fact, that it probably only could have been saved by a scientific breakthrough dependent on embryonic stem cells. Oh, the irony.

(Posted by John.) Alan Dershowitz, for the defense: There is a vast difference — both moral and legal — between a2-year-old who is killed by an enemy rocket and a 30-year-old civilianwho has allowed his house to be used to store Katyusha rockets. Bothare technically civilians, but the former is far more innocent than thelatter. […]

(Posted by John.) My copy of The One Percent Doctrine finally came in from the library, and I’ve just barely cracked it. But it’s reminded me of one of the most annoying things about the Bush administration – something that for me goes beyond annoyance and is actually offensive: Their steadfast refusal to learn anything […]