Month: November 2011

Jonathan Bernstein is right that the president never made a secret deal to scrap the public option. But he doesn’t do a very good job of explaining what actually happened. The administration realized very early on that...

The Alabama immigration law may currently have the support of 80% of Alabamans, but it isn’t going to stay that way. It’s one of the stupidest damn laws ever enacted and it’s going to create an opening for...

Everyone is piling on poor Newt Gingrich now that’s he’s shot to the head of the polls. I find it difficult to write about Newt for the simple reason that his flaws are so out-sized and his record is so ridiculous...

This is what passes for trying to be responsible in Republican circles: Hours after Pennsylvania State Police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for allegedly firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House, the top student...

Non-violent protesters do not surrender their Fourth Amendment Rights to be free from excessive force by police. Specifically, non-violent protesters may sue police and the municipality of county that employs them under this...