Igor Volsky of ThinkProgress was inducted yesterday into the Typo Hall of Fame (where he was warmly greeted by Josh Marshall, who has so far been the only member). Volsky made it into the elite group for a positively Marshall-esque performance: two typos in three words.
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is now the second Republican [...]
Democrats have just had a great idea. Healthcare reform is so precariously poised that reasonable people can’t even agree whether it’s a coin flip at this point or a long shot. It’s a complicated, messy situation, fragile in the extreme.
So, hey, why not just go ahead and complicate it further?
Democratic leaders [...]
This has got to be embarrassing. On ThinkProgress yesterday, Zaid Jilani wrote:
Costa Rica’s system of universal coverage is so effective that it actually ranks one slot above the United States in the World Health Organization’s ranking of health systems worldwide while actually spending less per capita than we do.
When you click on that second [...]
Last Wednesday, Politico published a pretty devastating story about a fundraising presentation by the RNC:
The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to “save the country from trending toward socialism.”
The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising [...]
Over the last few days, the Republican noise machine has put on a flawless exhibition of manufacturing a controversy out of nothing but whole cloth and thin air. Those, of course, are the raw materials the Republican noise machine takes pride in working with. Where’s the challenge in working with mere facts?
…Republicans are [...]
Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu had a Washington Post story yesterday about Najibullah Zazi’s guilty plea. A very sloppily written story.
At the very least, this paragraph offends the intelligence of its readers. It could even be said to constitute a dishonest twisting of logic:
Law enforcement sources, speaking on the condition of [...]
The Sarah Palin = 3-d chess grandmaster contingent is growing. The latest supporter of the thesis is the NYT’s Frank Rich. He has a slightly unusual take, though. His argument seems to be that Palin may not be smart at all, but she’s super-cunning. And her palm-prompter debacle may have been [...]
Science question of the day: What drops twice as fast as flies? (Hang on, we’ll get to the math too.)
We learned today of another Republican retirement in the House:
Florida Republican Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart will call it quits today, retiring after nine terms representing a heavily Cuban-American district in the Miami area, according to [...]
I have always regarded David Broder as a complete joke. (I will never understand how or why he acquired the title of “Dean” of the Washington press corps.)
I am glad to report that Broder has now honed his comedy act by incorporating an impeccable sense of timing.
Yesterday, he put out, in the Washington Post [...]
Remember how Obama supporters, pressed to defend actions and decisions by him that did not appear to be easily defensible, loved to argue that he was engaged in a game of 3-dimensional chess that his critics were just not equipped to understand? There’s a lot less of that going around lately, but it seems [...]
