White Millennials are pretty much done with Obama according to Gallup. His approval rating is as bad now among them as it is among older white Americans. Rest of America seems pretty damn happy with the guy, majority approval across the board among all age groups. Also, Americans see things getting better financially and have for …
Fables Of The Reconstruction
Fables of the Reconstruction: Tom Petty Edition
It’s been a while I know, and in the meantime real life has been so agonizingly real that the problems of three (or more) little kitchen appliances don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. But it’s getting on for evening, and in our house the sun has definitely passed over the …
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La Koch-a Nostra
As Team WIN THE MORNING points out, in a post-Citizens United world, the Koch brothers have figured out the game more quickly than everybody else in either party and they’re playing it even more skillfully. Why bother with buying national party machinery when you can just bring your own people in to run things? The …
Gitmo The Hell Out
Hey look, Congress stabbed Obama in the back on closing Gitmo again. Quelle surprise! President Obama’s 5-year-old campaign to close the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered a major setback as lawmakers finalizing the annual defense policy bill rejected steps toward shuttering the facility. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, …
Late Night Long Read: “Why Sherman Was Right”
Didn’t find a good window to drop this earlier, but given recent news, there’s probably not a rigid freshness date for a little anti-RWNJ rant. In Pando, the War Nerd at his finest: KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 20th — There are times when the sheer ignorance and ingratitude of the American public makes you sick. This …
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Must be a spurious correlation
All the wonks are chirping in on infant mortality studies that has engaged in some impressive decomposition of international differences between the US and other wealthy nations. We combine comprehensive micro-data on births and infant deaths in the US from 2000 to 2005 with comparable data from Austria and Finland to investigate this disadvantage. Differential reporting of births …
Friday Morning Open Thread: More Holder
Glenn Thrush, at Politico, on “The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield’“: … Holder, who began his stormy five-plus-year tenure at the Justice Department with his controversial “Nation of Cowards” speech, has chosen what seems to be the ideal (and maybe the only) moment to call it quits after more than 18 months …