Not Ezra Klein: EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect: When the GOP appears set to dump its first African-American leader mere weeks into his tenure in favor of a member of an all-white country club, it's hard for schadenfreude not to turn into genuine pity and concern. Obviously, this was in la...

Satyam Khanna reports: Sen. Bennett Lashes Out At Sen. McCain: ‘We Ought To’ Infest Arizona With ‘Mormon Crickets’: Recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tweeted a series of top 10 lists of “porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill, criticizing “beave...

He misses two important threads. Had John McCain won last November, very few of the New Deal denialists would be out in public--instead, the Republican legislators and their tame intellectuals would be enthusiastially rallying behind McCain's tax cut-based Keynesian fiscal stimulus package right now...

He thinks that Obama is not doing well, but that there is no reason to think that McCain would be doing any better: The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers: I’ve gotten this question from several of my conservative friends lately. They know that I publicly dec...

Hoisted from comments: Joe S.: I'm a lawyer. I agree with Brian. The smoking gun has long been in plain sight: Yoo's omission of Youngstown Sheet & Tube in his torture memo. The recent release merely adds to it. However, as a lawyer, let me point out something else. It will be extremely hard to conv...

Orin Kerr is a proud and welcome member of the John-Yoo-Is-a-Bad-Faith-Actor caucus: Orin Kerr: John Yoo: "Now that I'm not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government honest." -- From an interview with the Orange County Register...

Be very careful when you say that people must now "Go Galt." Just saying. From Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the ...

More from the Washington Post crashed-and-burned watch. Mark Kleiman: Global-warming denialism as a conspiracy theory: One largely unremarked aspect of global-warming denialism (as exemplified by George Will and demolished by Mike [below] and Zachary Roth at TPM) is that it amounts to a conspiracy t...

Some guy once said that Hegel said somewhere that the World-Spirit leads all things to happen, as it were, twice--but that Hegel forgot to add that the first time it happens is tragedy, the second time farce. When Rudolf Hilferding endorsed the "Treasury View" and vetoed Wladimir Woytinsky's plans f...

David Waldman has gone through the garbage pile: Congress Matters: What files? The insane pack-rat files, of course. I have with me a hard copy of a collection of Republican quotes predicting doom and disaster in the wake of the 1993 Clinton economic stimulus plan, and much of the rhetoric is eerily...