So, the current spate of articles about Barack Obama’s presidential prospects all seem to make at least a passing reference to how weird it is that a guy whose political experience is a stint in a state legislature and less than one term in the Senate has suddenly become the Great Half-White Hope of the […]

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From the American Spectator blog: It’s very fortunate for our side that the Democrats are so tightly wedded to socialism and big, international schemes of governance. It’s what keeps us together. I remember standing around with a couple liberal friends in the wake of the last presidential election joking about how it was a good […]

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TPM Cafe’s Election Central has an amusing story about a man named Richard Goodstein who showed up with a gaggle of Lieberman supporters to heckle Great Lefty Hope Ned Lamont when the Senate hopeful made an appearance at a local diner recently. As it turns out, he’s a registered lobbyist in D.C.—though he hung up […]

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In this weekend’s New York Times Book Review, Stanley Fish reviews the latest entrant in the “how Democrats got so screwed, with gestures in the direction of how they might get unscrewed” genre, linguist Geoff Nunberg’s How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show. Fish […]

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Fellow Hit-and-Runner Dave Weigel notes a new campaign commercial for Democratic primary contender Ned Lamont that features a cameo by lefty überblogger Markos “Kos” Moulitsas. The commenters there are are largely incredulous: Kos may be a celeb among the small subset of the population that follows poltical blogs, but is the average TV viewer really […]

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A friend who I’d never otherwise suspected had a sadistic or misogynistic bone in his body once surprised me by confession, of his penchant for buggery, “You know, the truth is, I kind of like anal sex more because she doesn’t.” Well, if this analysis by David Boaz is right, George W. Bush is conservatism’s […]

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I initially was puzzled by the cries of “elitism” being flung at critics of the Miers evaluation. She’s got a respectable resumé for being the president’s lawyer, but could anyone really find it “elitist” to require some more relevant experience in a Supreme Court justice? Then I got to thinking about availability heuristics—the way we […]

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Ryan Sager‘s excellent recent articles on the delicious contradictions of the movment behind campaign finance reform are required reading. But for precisely that reason, I’ll figure folks have read them (if not: go ahead, we’ll be here when you get back) and jump off on a tangent. In this post, Ryan notes that CFR boosters […]

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One of the things Republicans tell each other about Social Security reform—behind closed doors more often than in their op-eds—is that by creating more investors, it’ll alter public culture and create more Republicans, since people who hold investments tend to be more fiscally conservative. In the current Reason‘s cover-story debate on SS reform (not yet […]

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