Month: January 2011

The president is currently more popular than he’s been since November 2009. I guess everyone will have an argument for why that is the case. The White House thinks it’s because they had a very successful lame-duck...

Climate Change? Dead Birds? Weird Weather? Floods? Droughts? Massive wildfires? Polar ice disappearing? What’s up with that? Well we could look for an atheistic scientific explanation which relies on the notoriously...

Rahm Emanuel has been ruled ineligible to be on the ballot for mayor of Chicago because he didn’t maintain a residence there while he was serving as chief of staff to the president of the United States. He’ll try to...

For an intro to the topic, see Oui’s earlier diary, WikiLeaks: The Palestinian Papers. Here I present some additional commentary about the Palestinian Papers. A First Look at The Palestine Papers was posted by CTuttle on...

I’m not sure why some Democrats in the Senate enjoy giving the Republican minority effective veto power over their entire agenda, but according to Politico that seems to be the case among senior leadership. There’s no deal...