Like a character in some bad horror movie, the Texas redistricting story refuses to die. Yesterday things kicked into high gear all over again. The history on this takes too long to reiterate; there are just so many layers to the story. In essence, after some bizarre turn of events in May, Texas Republicans began […]
Today’s “Bushism” in Slate was one of my all-time favorites. It isn’t one of the malapropisms that have become infamous with a president who has trouble matching subjects and verbs, but it’s one of those great instances when you can hear Bush struggle to end his own thought. Here’s the quote: “Our country puts $1 […]
I was going to let this go, but something has come to my attention that suggests the issue warrants some additional attention. If you’ve been reading the site for a while, you’ve seen my ongoing concerns over Bush’s nomination of Bill Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. I have said, on more than […]
The Pew Research Center, which consistently does excellent non-partisan research, has an interesting new report out on religion and politics in America. It’s definitely worth reading if the topic interests you. The report covers a lot of ground, including public attitudes on gay marriage, Bush’s use of religious rhetoric, whether Dems and Republicans are “friendly” […]
On Friday, I mentioned that The New Republic was profiling two articles about Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, one which concluded Dean would lose to Bush miserably, the other which said the opposite. I’ve gone over Jonathan’s Chait’s piece on the anti-Dean approach, so today I wanted to mention Jonathan Cohn’s opposite conclusion. Cohn and Chait […]
In the ongoing debate over school vouchers, I frequently hear use of the word “experiment.” We should try, voucher advocates argue, voucher “experiments” to see if they work. The Washington Post’s E. J. Dionne, whom I generally like, had a column about vouchers on Friday that suggested that somehow there was a “middle ground” between […]
Be sure to take a look at yesterday’s Doonesbury on Trudeau’s take on one of my favorite topics: the Fox News Channel. I don’t like to give away the ending, but I love the spin on the network’s former motto: We Decide, You Concur.