I’m going to have to take Reihan Salam’s side against Radley Balko in the recent dust up over the McCain campaign’s hiring of Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb. Pace Radley, I don’t think Goldfarb’s insane views on executive power reflect terribly badly on the campaign, given that he’s been hired as deputy communications director. What […]

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I have to register again the sheer weirdness of seeing the writers’ flophouse around the corner itself becoming a sort of news story: And yes, that’s me in a couple shots tappitty-tapping away liveblogging some interminable primary for Democracy in America.

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There is, I think, something to this analysis at PowerLine, though the “something” isn’t quite what the authors think it is: One of the several reasons why the mainstream media have consistently underestimated the significance of the Trinity/Wright/Pfleger story is that, to a considerable degree, conventional reporters and editors tend to agree with Rev. Wright’s […]

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David Boaz articulates a common libertarian pet peeve: In an article about the wave of conservative reform under Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, the New York Times writes: Meanwhile the House is considering an income tax cut that would cost the state $300 million. Another way to say that would be: Meanwhile the House is considering […]

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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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Gene Healy was a founding don of what, lo those many years ago, we jokingly called the Cato Blog Mafia.  Long out of the game, Gene has just announced his triumphant return to the blogosphere, where he’ll presumably be focusing on the issues at the heart of his excellent new book The Cult of the […]

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The Speech is really quite impressive—a richer, more thoughtful, and more honest speech on race than I recall hearing (or expecting to hear) from an American politician. I can pick out in advance the ones that are going to be flagged and quoted by angry conservatives and angry progressives. Watch for those; they’re probably the […]

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