Month: June 2014

Californian Rep. Kevin McCarthy won the secret-ballot election to replace Eric Cantor as House Majority Leader once Cantor resigns his post at the end of July. The only thing I’d expect to see by way of change is a little...

Like Richard Nixon in the year before his resignation, Christie continues his claim that the scandal is behind him and the bridge and road to the WH is wide open. Scott Raab and Lisa Brennan at Esquire are hearing that there are...

Gallup finds that Congress has officially lapped chlamydia in the unpopularity department: The current 7% of Americans who place confidence in Congress is the lowest of the 17 institutions Gallup measured this year, and is the...

Things that make me nauseated even as I laugh: Dear [St. Louis] Post-Dispatch readers, Starting today, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson replaces George Will on Thursdays and Sundays. Mr. Gerson, who grew up in St. Louis...

Driftglass makes a solid point about Rachel Maddow’s perturbation at the booking of Iraq warmongers on television to talk about the situation there as if they are experts. …MSNBC shares several floors of a building...