Month: March 2014

When Being Right Feels Wrong

When your cynicism is confirmed does it make you more or less cynical? Former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) will be lobbying for Las Vegas Sands at her firm Lincoln Policy Group, according to new disclosure records. The casino,...

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Bill Kristol is the Worst We Have to Offer

Charles Pierce is a little more vituperative in his criticism of Bill Kristol than I was, but it amounts to the same thing. I guess I thought that if I opened my piece with “Blow me,” there was a strong chance Mr....

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A Belated Review of Wrecking Ball

My car’s radio antenna is broken, so I am stuck with CD’s. I’ve been playing Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball album on a loop for a week and it just gets better with every replaying. It is such a...

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First Tell Us Why the Blue Dogs Lost

First of all, although it is true that Markos basically celebrated the departure of nine moderate Democrats from the Senate over the last decade, he did not say that he hopes that Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu lose their...

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Quote of the Day

Zandar on Rand Paul’s trip to Berkeley: His message of course being “You people are stupid to not vote for me even though I’m clearly trying to manipulate you and split the left, leaving Republicans in charge...

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