(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) Harold Meyerson enjoys a little hard-earned schadenfreude: … As the August recess unfolded, Republicans — including a number of prospective presidential candidates — contemplated whether to shut down the government as a protest of Obamacare and whether to refuse to honor the nation’s debt as a cri de coeur against Obamacare …
We Can’t Afford to “Intervene” in Syria
Not while this is happening right here in our very own World’s Most Powerful Nation, right now: DYERSBURG, Tenn. — As a self-described “true Southern man” — and reluctant recipient of food stamps — Dustin Rigsby, a struggling mechanic, hunts deer, doves and squirrels to help feed his family. He shops for grocery bargains, cooks …
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Long Read(s): Good Neighbors Make Good Fences?
I read this NYTimes ‘Opinionator’ from Thomas Edsall in the wee hours, but it seemed like a lot to drop on people at breakfast: How Fragile Is the New Democratic Coalition? … In 1988, the Democratic presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis, carried 26 percent of the nation’s counties, 819 of 3144, on his way to losing …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Shana Tovah!
. Rosh Hashanah, which quite sensibly begins the New Year with the onset of autumn, starts at sunset this evening. Happy 5774 to those who will be celebrating, and may everyone’s year be as sweet as apples dipped in honey! President Obama is setting off, by way of Stockholm, for the G20 summit in St. …
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Deportees
From the NYTimes: … On Jan. 28, 1948, a plane chartered by federal immigration officials left Oakland, Calif., carrying two pilots, a flight attendant, an immigration guard and 28 Mexican farmworkers. Some were in the United States legally as part of the federal Braceros guest-worker program; others had crossed the border without documents. All 28 …
Tuesday Evening Open Thread
(Walt Handelsman via GoComics.com) Because sudoku is so 2011, NYMag offers political junkies a new numbers game: Twitter has become such an integral medium for political communication that, according to our count, 97 percent of members of Congress now have an official Twitter presence. But Twitter is a two-way street — you spread your message, …
Open Thread: ‘Just Another Cog’
(h/t SiubhanDunne) . What’s on the agenda, as everyone gears up for what’s looking to be a busy week? .