Sometimes, I like Keith Olbermann. He’s got an engaging on-air personality and when he editorializes he can be passionate and persuasive. But not when he goes all-in on partisanship and busts out with an argument like “all opposition to President… Continue Reading
Ah, politics. Debate and disagreement. Which degenerates into shouting matches and name-calling. Which sometimes then degenerates into fistfights. Well, it’s only fun until someone gets their finger bit off. Look, I have my opinion about health care reform. (I’m moderately… Continue Reading
Don’t lie to advance your own cause. It only sets your cause back. And sometimes, it also makes you look like a complete fool on the Daily Show when you get caught in the act. Watch the interview here.
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, conservative firebrand from a liberal state, attends a town hall and finds a constituency sharply divided on the issue of health care reform — some adamantly in favor of it and some adamantly against it.… Continue Reading
“America was founded as a Christian nation,” the theory goes. If that’s true, then was America founded as a Caucasian nation, too?
Yes, it’s crass, but given that Ted Kennedy (or any other particular recent decedent at any given time) was a politician who spent his entire life trading on his name politically and the bulk of his energy and effort fighting… Continue Reading
In part of my continuing theme of “dial the rhetoric down from eleven,” let me turn your attention to a phenomenon of truly astonishing disrepute: the fabricated hate crime. Here’s how I suspect the thinking behind such an activity goes,… Continue Reading
Whatever else you might say about Ted Kennedy, there’s no doubt he was a titan of American politics. A pillar and in many ways a personification of liberal politics, his early support for Barack Obama broke the “inevitability” surrounding Hillary… Continue Reading
John McCain is, for the most part, a class act and he proves it again: Senator McCain does not deserve boos and President Obama does not deserve derisive laughter from this crowd. It is one thing to think a policy… Continue Reading
Hey, you heard it here first! Well, actually, I heard it first at Below the Beltway. And he heard it first in the Gray Lady. So you probably didn’t really hear it here first. But you did hear it here.… Continue Reading