Monthly Archives: December 2012

It seems that all of us have taken off to celebrate the new year early, but I wanted to say thank you to all our readers who have stuck with us this year. We’ve been overwhelmed by the great commenters … Continue reading →

Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, has a guest post over at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog, where he finds parallels between the “tactics and rhetoric” of today’s NRA and those of pro-slavery forces in the period leading up to … Continue reading →

Stuff that I’ve been typing down over & over again the past few years is suddenly emerging as the new conventional wisdom. Jon Chait: reasonable compromise to avert the fiscal cliff is impossible. Republicans, as a whole, don’t even seem … Continue reading →

Exact quote just now from the NRA press conference. “This is the beginning of a serious conversation. We won’t be taking any questions.” — Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) December 21, 2012

I’m sure it’s only a momentary glitch, but I was surprised to see Jennifer Rubin, the GOP’s megaphone at the Washington Post, acknowledge this: This sort of display suggests Republicans are not capable of governing. What was an argument by … Continue reading →

I didn’t see this story pass through any of my usual channels, but I’ve been buried in work lately, so if this is redundant, apologies in advance. Romney’s campaign is charging reporters ridiculous rates for their food and travel: Nine … Continue reading →

The problem isn’t that there are too many guns, it’s that these poor kids are sitting ducks in “gun free zones.” We’ve been letting those hippie, socialist, bed-wetting liberals run things for decades and the result is clear – lots … Continue reading →

Jon Chait read a Megan McArdle article. He is amazed: McArdle begins her essay with a prescient harbinger (“There just aren’t good words to talk about Newtown.”) but recovers to churn out a fairly standard libertarian argument about why various … Continue reading →