May 25, 2013
6:15 p.m.
For the wingnuts among us, almost any time of year is a suitable occasion to suggest that Barack Obama is insufficiently patriotic. But the wackos seem to think that such suggestions are especially resonant on Memorial Day weekend.
A few years ago, for...
May 25, 2013
12:15 p.m.
Tomorrow is the 106th anniversary of the birth of actor John Wayne, a fitting occasion for me to republish an essay in which I examine his peculiar status as a conservative political icon.
I say “peculiar” because the Duke, as a symbol of manhood, patr...
May 25, 2013
12:15 p.m.
Back in my school days, mathematics was not my strongest subject — which is why I sometimes try to redeem myself by fighting against certain glaring examples of innumeracy.
The following passage, which I ran across this morning on the Internet, i...
May 24, 2013
6:16 p.m.
Molly Ball offers the GOP some GOOD ADVICE:
The party is in desperate straits. It has lost the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. It consoles itself with a majority in Congress, but even there its ranks are dwindling. On nearl...
May 24, 2013
6:16 p.m.
Check HERE for evidence of how Texas Gov. Rick Perry and nine other right-wingers have vented over news that the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council has voted to lift the organization’s ban on openly gay youths.... Read more...
May 24, 2013
6:16 p.m.
HERE‘s a novel theory, if there ever was one:
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Thursday that President Obama would not be president if it weren’t for the 1986 amnesty bill that Ronald Reagan signed into law.
King is a leading GOP critic of ef...
May 24, 2013
6:16 p.m.
Jonathan Chait NAILS IT:
The Internal Revenue Service scandal remains alive and well as an agency screwup story. But agency screwup stories, even ones centering on the agency Republicans most despise and deliberately hobble, have limited political ut...
May 24, 2013
6:16 p.m.
One would think that the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee would know what it means to “pack” a court.
But, in the case of Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, one would be wrong.
“Court-packing” is a term that ...
May 24, 2013
12:15 p.m.
Anyone who chides the insufferable Peggy Noonan as effectively as THIS is all right in my book. (Note: be sure to watch the video.)
Recently, the IRS has admitted to subjecting Tea Party groups to scrutiny. In fact, for the past few weeks the Obama Adm...
May 23, 2013
6:21 p.m.
The question in the headline above is one the right-wing conspiratorialists seem never to ask themselves.
Who blew the whistle on the IRS?
Was it investigative reporters from the mainstream media, as was the case with the Watergate scandal? No.
Was i...
