Month: March 2011

State of the GOP Race

Despite being saddled with a record of enacting health care reform while governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney hopes to swamp all competition in the money race: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has quietly launched a...

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Don’t Treat the Symptoms

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic is angered and mystified that Reuters included the following passage in an article about a bombing at a Jerusalem bus stop that killed one woman and injured thirty others. Police said it was a...

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Don’t Wear the Rainbow in La.

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that anti-gay bigotry exists in the Louisiana public school system. Well, as they used to say — NOT! An eighth-grade Louisiana student who was sent home from school for wearing a...

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Leaps of Faith

Andrew Solomon makes a good case for why Gaddafi can’t be given any benefit of the doubt, or any deal to let him stay in power. Solomon has lived in Libya. He knows the place and the leaders better than I do. But I still...

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