Month: November 2013

There Will Be No Price

Let the tyranny begin: Senate Republican leadership is calling the standoff over federal appeals court judges a distraction from the troubled rollout of the health care law, though it seems some Republicans have reached the...

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Casual Observation

I am enjoying Erik Wemple’s ownership of Mike Allen’s ass for a news cycle or two, but I am near-certain that Allen will prevail in the end. Being a paid shill is lucrative, which is why I am so poor.

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Tomorrow is Nuclear Thursday

You might remember my piece from this morning in which I mused on the inner workings of Senator Chuck Grassley’s brain to try to suss out the thinking behind the Republicans’ serial obstruction of the...

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Collective Punishment

Here’s one more brick in the road to Appomattox, Part Deux: Supreme Court decisions or not, Defense Department orders or not, bigots are gonna be bigots. That’s the reminder we get from various states’ refusals...

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On Trey Radel

Freshman Congressman Trey Radel (R-FL) was just convicted on a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession and received probation. He admits to suffering from alcoholism, which he blames for his poor choice to purchase cocaine....

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