The Corner (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
I had a chat with Ana Marie Cox the other day. We spent a lot of time on "don't ask, don't tell." I have mixed feelings on the topic, but would prefer a loosening of the current regime of the sort floated by Bob Gates of tamping down on investigations based on third-party information. On another front, we agree on the worthlessness of that Daily Kos poll that got so much attention a week...
Big Government (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Last Tuesday, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas wrote an op-ed in The Hill claiming the center-right nation was a myth. In the article he points out that it is impossible for it to be a center-right nation due to the fact that there are strong democratic majorities in the House and the Senate. He also [...]
Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Markos Moulitsas is writing a book, The American Taliban , which compares various aspects of the American Right to radical Islam ( e.g. , their obsessions with judging and controlling other people's sex lives , their religious fanaticism, their views of gender equality and the like). National Review Editor Rich Lowry finds this very upsetting, and the following was said by him during a chat he had...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
UNH/WMUR has a new round of polls of the New Hampshire races. NH-Sen: UNH for WMUR. 1/27-2/3. Likely voters. MoE 4.7%. (10/09 results) Kelly Ayotte (R) 41% (40) Paul Hodes (D) 33% (33) Ovide Lamontagne (R) 29% (28) Paul Hodes (D) 38% (37) Jim Bender (R) 27% Paul Hodes (D) 36% Bill Binnie (R) 30% Paul Hodes (D) 34% NH-01: UNH for WMUR. 1/27-2/3. Likely voters. MoE 6.2%. Carol Shea-Porter (D) 33% Frank...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
This recent Daily Kos-sponsored poll showing that large proportions of self-identified Republican voters hold irrational and extremist views has gotten a lot of attention recently. In the above-linked post, Markos Moulitsos writes that the results are “startling.” There are some methodological problems with the survey (see here and here). In my view, the [...]
Paul Soglin: Waxing America (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Faithful readers of Waxing America know we bring you critically acclaimed stories, keen analysis and otherwise obscure but culturally informative knowledge that you would never get at Daily Kos or the Huffington Post. Through dedicated scholarship and the good fortune on checking pictures from the Facebook group Jeffrey Manor, Chicago Il. Memories of Growing Up In Jeffrey Manor we bring you this priceless...
The Citizens (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
I just saw a report on Daily Kos (see link to the right) that says that an open gay Arabic translator (and West Point grad) who challenged DADT in court has been recalled to active service. The presumption is that this is an indication of the new Department of Defense policy on enforcing DADT (they aren't anymore). I think this is great. When the the sky fails to fall over this, another chunk of public...
Blue Tidal Wave (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes Huff Po Eric Holder and the battle over Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The New Yorker Questions that should have been asked about relationship between Goldman Sachs and AIG. Digby How Fox News Censored Jon Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly Gawker Graphic: Who Lost The Jobs? Bush Did. Oliver Willis Do we need another Turnip Day? James Fallows Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations In The...
The Vulture Lurks (Free subscription) | yesterday
A question that has been asked thousands of times in hundreds of different ways by those of us who are not ideologues has finally found its way into an opinion piece in the Washington Post. That question is: Why are liberals so condescending? Though I suspect that the author of the article is himself left-leaning, he demonstrates the kind of intellectual honesty that is so rare among the Left. To this...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last Wednesday, Bill O'Reilly and Karl Rove spent five minutes of airtime claiming that the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll on the crazy beliefs of Republican voters was fraudulent. "The poll is a fraud," O'Reilly said, "as is the website." "Daily Kos is trying to make an argument," Rove said, "and the argument falls flat on its face when you begin to look inside the...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
- The Cucking Stool righteously rips that ridiculous 'lets-eliminate-corporate-taxes' opinion piece in Sunday's Strib. (You can link from there to the Strib piece itself, if you must.) - Across The Great Divide relays, and discusses, a suggestion as to how the U.S. Senate could be reconfigured. Interesting speculation, though speculation is all it is. My preferred suggestion, perhaps slightly, and...
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Via DemFromCT of Daily Kos , Kevin Huffman of the Washington Post says On Sunday, as I hunker down with family and friends for the Super Bowl, I can rest easy knowing that CBS is working hard to defend my heterosexual sensitivities. On the surface, heterosexuality doesn’t seem like a particularly distinctive trait or one in need of broad institutional protections, but many seem to believe that...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
"While leftist networks like MSNBC try to associate the entire conservative movement with birthers and racists ... " Tim Graham, Newsbusters I readily stipulate that the legitimate questioning of Obama's birth now serves as a distraction. Okay? Even though we birthers own 100% of the facts, agitpropped mistakes notwithstanding. But f**k you Graham! For equating us with racists. You've been...
They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Over at the Washington Post today, University of Virgina politics professor Gerard Alexander attempts to provide some academic reinforcement to Sarah Palin's right wing grievance-mongering rant yesterday at the Tea Party convention. In his column, Alexander wonders "Why are Liberals So Condescending? and in a bit of irony or inintended humor Alexander's is the only article not taking reader comments....
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
The Rasmussen Poll is much disliked by liberals. It tells them things they do not like to hear. The Daily Kos poll will tell them President Obama has 56% favorability, making him more popular than he was on Election Day when only 53% voted for him. The Rasmussen had the reverse: 44% approve, 56% disapprove. Which explains [...]
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