Month: July 2012

Michele Bachmann’s 6th Congressional District in Minnesota is very red, and redistricting made it slightly redder. On the other hand, she no longer lives in the district, which might present a slight problem for her. Jim...

Kudos to Slate’s Dave Weigel for coining a useful new phrase—the “magic word gaffe”—in the jargon of contemporary American politics.  He did so in explaining how and why conservative...

The NCAA is going to announce Penn State’s punishment in a press conference in the morning. Details have been leaking out all day. If what I’m hearing is correct, I think I am going to approve of their solution. My...

Ron Johnson is a Republican Senator who is a coward. Sure, he supports my right — and yours — to own 100 round magazines for our semi-automatic rifles, as he told Chris Wallace, and I thank him for that in the face...

I was thinking about The Field Negro’s lament that we never get to hear about the personal stories or suffering relatives of the thousands of black people who die from gunshots each year in our cities, and I decided to try...