The Retrograde and Faithless (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Kevin Drum implies (or maybe I'm inferring) that Sen. Orin Hatch is suffering from senility: The 75-year-old conservative has repeatedly been confused and cantankerous in recent months, repeating obvious falsehoods after being confronted with facts, and recently threatening to kick progressive activists " in the teeth ." A month ago, he described health care reform as an elaborate,...
putative.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kevin Drum notes a great post about why you *shouldn't* go green. I love this sort of thing. Basically, we should stop "our faddish and counterproductive emphasis on small, voluntary actions.... [I]n the 1960s, civil rights activists didn't ask bigoted...
Feministe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Don’t ask me why in the world I was reading Ross Douthat’s blog today, but I was. And I made the mistake of eyeing his blogroll. What do you notice? Alan Jacobs Alex Massie Andrew Sullivan Damian Thompson Daniel Larison Dave Weigel David Frum Ezra Klein First Thoughts Front Porch Republic George Packer Get Religion Greg Mankiw Hot Air Jeffrey Goldberg Jim Geraghty Keith Hennessey Kevin...
OxBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
DEATH THREATS FOR OBAMA: Four times as many as death threats for Bush? More? For his most passionate supporters, it is only natural to think of this young, charismatic and inspirational leader as another potential JFK, RFK or MLK Jr. (Although I doubt we'll ever call him BHO.) Yet it was Kevin Drum of all people who noted that according to Secret Service chief Mark Sullivan that the number...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... policies are structured so that they can easily be scaled up in the future. Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum writes , “For now, the prospects for healthcare reform are looking as good as they ever have.” Writing in the Nation, under the headline, “Senate Dems ditch the public option,” John Nichols offers a characterization of the reforms in the deal as “not...
Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
* First, more on the Medicare “buy-in” that is getting so much attention today, with support from Kevin Drum, Donkeylicious, Digby, Steve Benen, and others. I excitedly await Joe Lieberman’s promise to filibuster this. * UNL has a huge collection of free government comics. (Thanks Steve!) * David Foster Wallace is once again in the New Yorker. [...]
lies.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... the raw material for an endless parade of conspiracy theories. Or Climategate (of course), which Kevin Drum had a nice item on today ( Quote of the Day: Climate Denialism ), where the eponymous quotation was of Al Gore (as interviewed by John Dickerson in Slate): “What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It'” If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot...
The Bellman (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Unfortunately, we live in a world that features such institutions as the United States Senate. I have to agree with Kevin Drum on this : And at the risk of pissing off some decent people, I'll add one other thing. In the near term, no serious carbon tax will ever pass the U.S. Senate. Period. If you believe otherwise, you're just not paying attention to things. A big part of the surge...
The Bellman (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
As promised last week, I'll be updating the blog with two or more posts each Monday. Today I've got a short insta-style post to Kevin Drum on Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade, and a link to a terribly awesome article about a new folding plug design to overcome the absolutely terrible U.K.-style of electrical plug. And, via icanread via @rands , we've got a doodle about a walrus.
A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Kevin Drum has a fun bit of McCain-bashing today, and longtime readers will know that I do like McCain-bashing as much as the next person, but I wonder if this is right: When McCain is running for president or thinking of running for president, he's a bipartisan maverick. When he's not, he's a conservative die-hard. And now that the presidency is plainly out of reach forever, he's taken...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: Why did we have a housing bubble in the 00s? Why not Tulips or something else? Kevin Drum : Complete Story »
Rortybomb (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Why did we have a housing bubble in the 00s? Why not Tulips or something else? Kevin Drum: The real difference seems to lie not in housing becoming a better target for investment, but in real goods and services becoming less attractive ones. Why? Surely this is something that deserves considerably greater scrutiny [...]
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The graph above, which portrays Medicare as a percentage of gdp, is from this SSA piece. In contrast, Matt Yglesias, Kevin Drum, and others have touted a new short essay as evidence for the claim that the Obama health reform...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
http://salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/27/civil_liberties Friday, Nov 27, 2009 Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable? By Glenn Greenwald Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obama's policies are "pretty much what [he] expected" but that "the biggest one-time-out-of-ten where he's not doing what [he] expected...
A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Majoritarian Caucus -- Drum , E. Klein -- today are using the decision of Bernie Sanders to place a hold on the renomination of Ben Bernanke to trot out their opposition to all holds. Kevin Drum says: Aside from my general dislike of the whole hold process, this is a pretty good example of a big specific problem with it: namely that I don't think Sanders has even the slightest...
