South Pol

Brendan Nyhan In short, there’s no question that the...

Oct 1st

Orrin Hatch Thinks the Health Care Bill...

Oct 1st

Watch

The venerable advocacy group Consumers Union, best known for publishing Consumer Reports, will dive...

Oct 1st

If the Obama administration somehow fails to break this...

Oct 1st

Bearish on augury

An Amazing Quarter For The Bulls S&P 500: +15% Nasdaq: +16% Dow Jones: +15% NYSE...

Oct 1st

“Sarah Palin’s people are reportedly asking for $100,000 per...”
— Sarah Palin’s Lectures...

Oct 1st

“The Supreme Court announced this morning it will hear a...”
— Chicago Breaking News You can...

Sep 30th

Newsmax Columnist: Military Coup May Be...

Sep 30th

“Where do these nut jobs come from? Come on, stop this.”
— Was this Tom Friedman talking...

Sep 30th

Nelson: Health Care Reform Needs 65 Votes To...

Sep 29th

The Impact of Inequality

Sep 29th

“Already, the spirited competition has sparked some...”
— Obama Risks Prestige for...

Sep 29th

Attention Deficit

Sep 29th

"Why are they putting a Hitler Moustache on...

Sep 28th

Liz Cheney

TAPPED The New York Times reports that Liz Cheney’s star is rising in the party of...

Sep 28th

Is there a pulitzer for masochism?

Cause Mediaite has a frontrunner: You may not like Glenn Beck, you may think he is a nut...

Sep 28th

Cat Congress Mired In Sunbeam

Sep 25th

“Nationally,” the memo reads, “voters oppose a...”
— “Leaked”...

Sep 25th

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laidbare: absurdlakefront: notthatkindagay: absurdlakefront: axelrod: ericmortensen: G20:...

Sep 25th

“He grew up so poor, he didn’t find out what bread was...”
— Brazil’s Lula: The Most...

Sep 25th

NYRB: The Death of Conservatism / Tanenhaus

Sep 25th

“The point of having a majority in Congress is not to retain...”
— Ezra Klein Then he linked to...

Sep 25th

think4yourself: quotingthecrisis: Calm Amidst the Storm:...

Sep 25th

The Monkey Cage: Racial Attitudes and Party Identification ...

Sep 24th

“Today we still have the same amount of debt, but it belongs...”
— Nassim Taleb, “We still have...

Sep 24th

jonathan-cunningham: alpalice: Where The Wild Things Ought...

Sep 24th

Ideas for G. Beck, part 1 of 1. via James Fallows

Sep 24th

Conclusions regarding that Census worker

Sep 24th

sexartandpolitics: “The Bostonians paying the exciseman,...

Sep 24th

Chart of the Day | Mother Jones Emphasize the word...

Sep 24th

“The most-trusted television news organization was Fox News...”
— Sacred Heart University...

Sep 23rd

The Big Picture

Sep 23rd

“It’s still remarkable that 16% of Americans will go so...”
— Public Policy Polling: Is...

Sep 23rd

BREAKING: Democrats Hoping To Take...

brooklynmutt: nicopitney

Sep 23rd

Generic House Polling Suggests the...

Sep 23rd

“The amount of money that ACORN has received in the past 20...”
— Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)...

Sep 23rd

Steven Pearlstein - A New Bubble Of the Fed's...

Sep 23rd

think4yourself: Recession’s Over! | M. Wuerker, Politico

Sep 23rd

“The marketplace didn’t fail. It became exactly as common...”
— Sarah Palin’s Speech To Hong...

Sep 23rd

The sensationalist WSJ: The WSJ is now being edited by a...

Sep 23rd

“Speaker Pelosi is backing away from a deal she cut with...”
— Pelosi backs away from deal...

Sep 23rd

Watch

Steve Benen: In this video, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), who is currently running for the Senate,...

Sep 22nd

Glenn Greenwald, Glenn Beck is not Mamet

Glenn Beck and Left-Right confusion Is opposition to the Wall Street bailout (supported by both...

Sep 22nd

Amendments to the Baucus bill

Sep 22nd

Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em

DeLay daughter whips votes Hi all, Tonight is the first episode of Dancing With the Stars (on...

Sep 21st

brooklynmutt: HAHAHAHAHA! It’s like the 1927 Yankees,...

Sep 18th

my thoughts on the pavement reunion

catbus: executiveproducerdickwolf: Take a bunch of lazy white dudes who had a reputation for being...

Sep 18th

The American Conservative » The business of war and...

Sep 18th

squashed: Matthew Yglesias: Baucuscare sucks (Nick...

Sep 18th

retropolitics: (via Matt Bors) “Cannonballs Not...

Sep 18th

Matthew Yglesias: Baucuscare sucks (Nick Beaudrot’s...

Sep 18th

Guys, Rush Limbaugh was being sarcastic!

soupsoup: He didn’t really mean it when he said… 1. “There is no conclusive proof that nicotine’s...

Sep 17th

“What a world might be like in which we began not just to...”
— Tom Engelhardt (via...

Sep 17th

In Chicago “Back the Bid” means support the...

Sep 17th

“According to the CBO, the provisions of the bill that cost...”
— Ezra Klein (via squashed) Not...

Sep 17th

In which I ramble about ACORN, to...

You know what? Shoes is right. Insofar as we’re talking about the excerpted argument above,...

Sep 16th

“That the GOP and its conservative supporters would single...”
— The Anonymous Liberal: You Can...

Sep 16th

Specter says Employee Free Choice Act...

Mark Kleiman From the NYT: Six months ago, Arlen Specter, then a Republican senator from...

Sep 16th

Abortion And The Baucus Health Reform...

Not a surprising thing, but here’s Michael Scherer in Time: One reproductive rights lobbyist...

Sep 16th

That Max Baucus touch

Nate Silver surveys the congressional reaction to the Baucus Compromise Bill: Firstly,...

Sep 16th

“It’s Obama’s America, is it not? Obama’s...”
— Rush Limbaugh Uh…....

Sep 16th

Beck Watch: Boycott Decimates Advertisers

Sep 16th

Race Injections

Michael Tomasky Conservatives, ironically, are the ones who get to say that liberals...

Sep 16th

"Logic" and the House of Representatives

squashed: A government run healthcare program like Medicare The Veteran’s Administration Medicaid...

Sep 16th

A Brief History of Corporate Whining

Sep 16th

wooliebear: Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C.–Crystal Lee...

Sep 15th

Patriot in Chief

Marc Ambinder The Obama administration wants Congress to reauthorize three controversial...

Sep 15th

Why conservatives should be trying to...

The Bush Economic Record - Blame Healthcare (h/t) Over the years from 2000 to 2007, the price...

Sep 15th

Too Bigger to Fail, Part II A few weeks ago I pointed...

Sep 15th

Obama in the polls

New CNN poll results: Asked about approval of the president’s work on specific issues: 54%...

Sep 15th

“A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Tuesday morning...”
— Poll: Support for Afghan war...

Sep 15th

By year’s end, we’ll be 8.5% below 2005...

Sep 15th

“In 1969, 41 percent of children either walked or biked to...”
— The Walk-to-School Fight

Sep 15th

Bad signs: farming and food edition

Agribusiness giddy over new Chairman of Senate Agriculture Committee: As suspected, agribusiness...

Sep 15th

retropolitics: Poll Finds Most Doctors Support Public...

Sep 15th

executiveproducerdickwolf: You keep using that word. I do...

Sep 14th

“The U.S. economy could continue to need billions of dollars...”
— Treasury: Billions still...

Sep 14th

The ghost fleet of the recession Here, on a sleepy stretch...

Sep 14th

Barack Obama Does Something Really Stupid:...

Sep 14th

How dare _________!

Michael Kinsley: No matter how important or otherwise the underlying issue may be, it seems that...

Sep 14th

think4yourself: savingpaper: inothernews: Tom fucking...

Sep 14th

Dow: 9/11/01 = 9/11/09 “On both 9/11/01 and 9/11/09,...

Sep 14th

Peeks at the 2012 playbook: Afghanistan...

Spencer Ackerman: The new Lieberman/McCain/Graham op-ed on Afghanistan says exactly what...

Sep 14th

ACORN BURN!!!!

Sep 14th

Closing The Book On The Bush Legacy

Sep 14th

Watch

retropolitics: soupsoup: Billionaires for Wealthcare Your trusty billionaires thanked our...

Sep 13th

In which I ramble about the 9/12...

The bulk of what I see are cries for small government that were most often misleadingly manifested...

Sep 13th

“Stop spending our tacos. I love tacos.”
— Matt Welch: Favorite sign at...

Sep 13th

My 9/13 Mentality

Don’t Tell Me What 9/12 Means, Glenn Beck What he purportedly wants is to bring back our feeling...

Sep 13th

Tea Parties, Tea Pain

Matt Welch: Quick Impressions of the D.C. 9/12 Protest - Reason Magazine Political rallies are no...

Sep 13th

“Congrats to the tea-partiers for the impressive crowds in DC...”
— Andrew Sullivan | The Daily...

Sep 12th

Health Care for America Now (HCAN) – the nation’s...

Sep 11th

“[W]e show that individuals growing up during recessions tend...”
— Growing Up in a Recession:...

Sep 11th

Making the rounds today is this chart from the Center on...

Sep 11th

“Eugene Robinson today absurdly calls the GOP’s...”
— How one becomes...

Sep 11th

“An overwhelming 91 per cent of Canadians rate their health...”
— Canadians! That’s...

Sep 11th

Mooning the lord

Harper’s: Those of us at Harper’s appreciate rudeness no matter who is in charge. See this...

Sep 11th

“When Glenn Beck made his Fox debut, some shrewd...”
— David Frum continue...

Sep 11th

Oh good

takethecityandrun: barthel: Socially conservative Americans, having previously decided to worship...

Sep 11th

9/11 Observation

It seems to me that we don’t talk about or observe 9/11 less each passing year. Rather,...

Sep 11th

“You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11...”
— Glenn Beck (via azspot) (via...

Sep 11th

What we talk about when we talk about ACORN

Sep 11th

2 ACORN Employees Fired, Could Face Criminal...

Sep 11th

Enough already?

Kevin Drum says we should stop talking about Joe Wilson and start reminding people that: The U.S....

Sep 10th

Watch

Democrats Boo Bush During 2005 SOTU Goes to show that scoffing en masse has a different effect than...

Sep 10th

On heckling

Matthew Yglesias Personally, I sort of liked Rep Joe Wilson’s idea of introducing British-style...

Sep 10th

Rhetorics

Hanna Rosin: But then, at the end, came the rousing defense of liberalism I was waiting for. For a...

Sep 10th

Watch

Cantor attentive to Blackberry [video] A Democrat, amused at the shots of Eric Cantor working his...

Sep 10th

The Obama Plan: Stability & Security for all...

Sep 10th

SCOTUS Fight

Let me see if I got this. Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, and quasi-mute Justicebot Thomas all...

Sep 9th

Does a corporation have the right to...

Business.view | The Economist Yet the word “corporation” appears nowhere in the constitution or...

Sep 9th

This one goes out to my Chief Justice, John G. Roberts.

Sep 9th

Attacks on Sunstein Frustrate Conservative...

Sep 9th

A place where Enhanced socratic method...

Protest over Wyoming’s Cheney center “We feel that by naming it the Cheney...

Sep 9th

GDP: So 20th Century

Joseph E. Stiglitz: Rethink GDP fetish The big question concerns whether GDP provides a good...

Sep 9th

We’re attempting to track and tally the stands of all 535...

Sep 9th

Deficit Attention Disorder

David Sirota: If the deficit is so important, why aren’t Democrats looking to cut the...

Sep 9th

“But ultimately, if the president decides that he’s going to...”
— Rachel Maddow

Sep 4th

catbus: This is about BIG GOVERNMENT INVADING OUR PUBLIC...

Sep 4th

armeck: Obama’s Tripling of the National Debt in...

Sep 4th

emptyage: kellydeal: funsizebytes: Laugh-Out-Loud Cats...

Sep 4th

“A nation that continues year after year to spend...

Sep 4th

Mauldin: No Good Economic Choices for...

From Paul Kedrosky, an excerpt from John Mauldin: There are no good choices. Nouriel [Roubini],...

Sep 4th

Meanwhile, while we foam at the mouth at...

The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose in June for the eighth straight month. More than...

Sep 4th

“We are living Glenn Beck’s fantasy life,” said...”
— Joe Klein at a town hall...

Sep 4th

Sometimes Change comes only after...

The Obama administration plans to change White House policy by releasing the names of thousands of...

Sep 4th

“New numbers from the U.S. Education Department show that...”
— Student Debt Grows...

Sep 3rd

The Public Option is Popular, Moral and...

Sep 3rd

Young Workers: A Lost Decade

Sep 2nd

Chicago's Handling of Mental Clinics Is...

Sep 1st