The Plank
Obama's Plot to Brainwash Your Children!
On Jim Traficant's Hair, and Character
The Public Option and "Tactical Extremism"
Whatever else happens in the "endgame" of health care reform in Congress (and a lot obviously depends on the President's big speech next week), the drama over "the public option" within the Democratic Party is going to be a factor. You can argue all day long, as many progressives already have, that this shouldn't be the make-or-break issue for anybody, but the fact remains that it is. READ MORE >>
Make 'em Shake
Democrats, hear this: On a conference call just now about their big Tea Party in D.C. next Saturday, a coalition of organizers led by FreedomWorks forecast that "tens of thousands" would mob the Capitol building to rail against Big Government. "This will be the largest gathering of fiscal conservatives ever,” one said. READ MORE >>
What Breed of Pack Rat Would You Be?
I have to get a copy of the new novel by E.L. Doctorow, which takes its inspiration from the lives of the eccentric Collyer brothers, Langley and Homer, who lived and died in an inherited New York brownstone that, by the end, the pathological pack rats had piled high with everything from old magazines to car parts. READ MORE >>
Megan McArdle's Statistics, Continued!
Yesterday I blogged about Megan McArdle after she used a statistic, and then claimed in an online chat that she was not using a statistic, but rather a "hypothetical." McArdle took a fair bit of criticism, and posted a response. Astoundingly, she says this: READ MORE >>
Today at TNR (September 3, 2009)
"This Has a Fighting Chance of Success"
TNRtv: Obama's 'Border Czar' On The Mexican Drug War
Alan Bersin reveals the Obama administration’s plan to invest more in Mexico’s broken judicial and law enforcement systems once violence is under control. Bersin is the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. READ MORE >>
Can the Saudi King Spare Pervez Musharraf from the Death Penalty?
It wasn't until I reported my print piece on how much Barack Obama's foreign policy--from closing Gitmo to Iran to the global economy-- depends on the Saudis that I appreciated the influence Riyadh has over its Sunni ally Pakistan. READ MORE >>
