Month: February 2009

Cable News reports that Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination. Good. It’s embarrassing for Obama but he’ll be better off in the long-run.

Maha notes that the GOP is both leaderless and directionless, but also that the Republicans have been here before and came up with solutions by mythologizing some figure (Ray-Gun, Dubya) into a viable standard bearer. It’s...

Do Republicans know how stupid they look and just not care? Or, do they live in some alternate universe where being ridiculous is seen as cool?

While my son is in Israel this week and into next, I spend a lot of time scanning the net to keep track of what’s going on and to make sure he is traveling a good distance from danger zones. In my surfing I found a site...

It’s rare the cases on which the Supreme Court will rule unanimously these days. The Court is split so severely on ideological and political lines that any case which raises a hint of controversy is usually decided by a...