I wonder how many hard-line Republicans are going to Google “Operation Chaos” looking for information about Rush Limbaugh’s plan to bolster Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and instead discover that—back in the golden age before we passed that awful, restrictive, un-American FISA law—”Operation Chaos” was the CIA’s clever name for the practice of systematically spying on the […]

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After a debate watching party here in DC last night, Glenn Greenwald spoke for a bit and took some questions from the mostly-progressive crowd about how Democrats can more effectively counter Republican narratives.  The audio quality is not exactly stellar, but I did manage to capture some of the Q&A on my phone: Greenwald in […]

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Buffeted by claims that her campaign cannot hope to overcome “the math” that gives Barack Obama an almost certain lead in pledge delegates as the Democratic National Convention draws ever nearer, Hillary Clinton today struck back, citing the controversial work of MIT mathematician Ian Malcolm as grounds for her supporters to hold out hope. Mr […]

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So, uh, yeah: If you’re a girl in your early teens and have no option but to carry to term an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy when you’re in no real position to care for a child, and when the burden of doing so is very likely to derail your future educational plans, the word for this […]

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Glenn Reynolds: HMM: Rep. Ellison: Clinton Trying To Reap Benefit Of Obama-Muslim Smear. “I think that Barack Obama’ s Democratic opponents will say and do anything to try and win.” Well, yes. But why does Ellison think calling someone a Muslim is a “smear”? If somebody called me a Muslim, I wouldn’t feel smeared, any […]

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I haven’t been paying a *huge* amount of attention, but I have been trying to suss out precisely what is supposed to have been so terrible about those “shameful” mailers the Obama campaign has circulated criticizing Hillary Clinton on trade and health care. One seems to have accurately reported that Hillary has praised NAFTA, but […]

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Erstwhile roomie and economist extraordinaire Glen Whitman wonders why the political parties don’t give extra weight to delegates from swing states and less to those, like California, that are all-but-guaranteed to go Democratic in November regardless of the nominee. Glen considers the obvious answer, then rejects it: One answer is that it would seem undemocratic. […]

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I’ve got a preview based on a panel at CPAC over at Ars

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I realize that during campaign season, talking about a month-old scandal is like slapping platform shoes and a Nehru jacket, but I just found myself thinking about the case of Bill Shaheen, Hillary Clinton’s former New Hampshire campaign co-chair, who had to resign after suggesting that Barack Obama—who has admitted using marijuana and cocaine as […]

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Andrew Sullivan: From a conservative perspective, on spending, debt, big government, regulation, which Democrat could be worse [than Bush]? This is like that scene in movies where the put-upon protagonists say “Well, at least it’s not raining,” at which point we hear a booming thunderclap.

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