Month: May 2013

Let’s take a look at this Steve Rose piece in the Kansas City Star. Here’s how he begins: Barack Obama just had his worst week in a deeply flawed presidency. It’s not as bad as Jimmy Carter’s presidency, but it’s...

Jonah Goldberg thinks that the word “ideologue” means nothing more than that you have an ideology. But Merriam-Webster defines “ideologue” as “an impractical idealist” or “an often...

Here’s a blast from the past to help you memorialize our dead soldiers: [Paul] Berman’s convoluted attempt to connect Saddam’s secular Baath Party and the Islamist al-Qaida is a feat worthy of a medieval schoolman. But at...

I’m glad that the New York Times has finally got around to reporting on the real scandal, which is that oligarchs are using the 501(c)(4) tax status to hide their donations to right-wing Tea Party groups whose only...

There are several dates for Confederate Memorial Day. The April 26 date celebrates the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Bennett Place near Durham, which effectively ended to war. The May 10 date, the surrender of...