Month: April 2013

They Will Overcome the Filibuster

This is some seriously sloppy thinking: Defenders of the idea of a filibuster on guns insist that the 2014 political calculations mean that there is little risk to their side if the legislation doesn’t make it. “You have to take...

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Judge Puts Hold on Fracking in CA

Some good news on the environmental front, and it comes from a Federal District Court Judge in California. It seems the Obama administration (specifically the Bureau of Land Management) approved the use of hydrofracking in the...

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Open Thread

I not only won my NCAA basketball office pool. I crushed it. I picked the most games correctly by a wide margin and I picked the champion, Louisville. A lobster dinner is in my future. Still, I was having trouble not rooting for...

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Turn Texas Blue

Bloomberg reports that grassroots organizers have moved into Texas with significant resources and the intention of turning Texas into a battleground state by 2020. I have looked at the numbers in the past and my recollection is...

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