It’s in my living will, if I ever start to sound as demented as Michael Barone, my next-of-kin are under strict orders to euthanize me. Via Steve M: Jim Webb versus Barack Obama? My friend Paul Rahe, professor of history at Hillsdale College, was among the first to see through the David Brooks depiction (now …
I just don’t know why you can’t see
I’m not a Bill Keller hater, I think he turned the NYT around after Howell Raines ran it into the ground, but I find it surprising that he understands the American political/media landscape so poorly: It is partly a failure of presidential communications that Republicans have succeeded in parodying each of his accomplishments, turning “stimulus” …
Don’t you know the crime rate’s going up up up up up?
The Obama crime wave continues (via): Violent crime in the United States continues to drop significantly despite the difficult economic environment, according to new statistics released Friday by the Justice Department. According to the Crime Victimization Survey released annually by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2010 violent crimes dropped about 13% among U.S. residents …
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Late night song of the week
Ray Charles, “Mess Around” (1953) Crazy week here, hard drive meltdowns, computer to the indifferent shop, and offline for two long days. I realized, for better or worse, that online is basically where I live nowadays so I really felt lost there for awhile. But I can always put on something from The Birth of …
Job killers
It’s not just that Republicans oppose the traditional fiscal remedies that western countries used from the Great Depression until about two years ago, they also want to kill successful jobs programs that already exist: House Republicans rolled out their plan to fund disaster relief in Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) district, but at the cost …
Can’t compete with the riders in the other heat
PPP has a Republican primary poll that makes it clear that the Republican primary is becoming a two-track race: the flat-earthers are flocking to Perry while the more reality-based ones favor Romney (though narrowly). –Romney leads Perry 23–18 among GOP voters who believe in global warming…but that’s only 27% of them. With the 62% who …
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Number nine, number nine
I haven’t had the heart to read the various NY-9 post-mortems. It’s a heavily Catholic, heavily Jewish district so it’s a twofer. First a lot of discussion about how Democrats alienated Archie Bunker and Chris Matthews’ cranky uncle with too much love for teh gay and teh dick tweet and not enough for teh fetus …