June 16, 2010 – 1:09 pm
Someone make sure to ask Matthew Yglesias if he is cool with this idea next January, when Republicans have regained Congress There’s nothing wrong, per se, with coherent parties and polarized politics. Lots of democracies get on fine with them. But they don’t work well with the particular institutions we happen to have. In particular, […]
June 16, 2010 – 9:53 am
For a change, the blamee is not Bush. Mexican President Calderone goes further An explosion of drug violence in Mexico has killed hundreds of people in the past five days and prompted the country’s president to issue a 5,000-word manifesto warning that the fight against organized crime must continue “or we will always live in […]
June 16, 2010 – 9:25 am
And, Obama swings and misses during his first televised speech from the Oval office. Fifty five plus days out, and Obama still has no plan. He offered absolutely nothing new other than a few seemingly offhand remarks about “Doing Something.” He talked about lawsuits and holding BP accountable. Threw lots of blame around while claiming […]
drowningpuppies on Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup: “Well buddy, the National Guard is protecting the inauguration because violent right-wingers may try to assassinate him. Evidence? Or just…” Jan 17, 11:27
on Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup: “Updated Jan 17 at 9:59 AM local Deaths 400,031 B117 variant (UK virus) is about 0.5% of sequenced virus.” Jan 17, 11:18
