Month: April 2012

A couple of days ago I posted a piece called American Civilization In Terminal, Free-Fall Collapse-The Proof. In it I spoke of something I had found that I considered to be “proof positive that the whole U.S. system has...

When I saw that Ezra Klein had written a piece about how Mitt Romney would be a transformational president, I got kind of excited. I was thinking that Ezra had gamed out the likely avenue of New Deal destruction that would...

With apologies to my mother, Pennsylvania Democrats voted out two of the shittiest incumbent members of the House of Representatives. Both Jason Altimire and Tim Holden are now looking for work. Altmire, who represents parts of...

So, I just voted in the PA primary today… For the first time ever, I was asked for photo ID to vote. When I responded that asking for that was just wrong, the suburban white lady looking up my name in the voter rolls actually...

Elias Isquith finds Tom Ricks of The Washington Post calling for a return to the draft, for all the usual reasons: Since the end of the military draft in 1973, every person joining the U.S. armed forces has done so because he or...