The answer to a question I never asked (h/t our long lost Kathleen). The 'Monty Hall Problem': And the country? It picked Door No. 2, because math is hard....
McKay Coppins at Buzzfeed Politics writes about how A Very White Republican Leadership Plans Minority Outreach: As the Republican Party gears up to launch a concerted, well-funded outreach effort aimed at attracting elusive minority voters, it's not just battling dismal poll numbers and tough demographic trends —...
A life lesson -- Israeli director critical of occupation beaten by Arabs in France: Arab men assaulted an Israeli film director in southern France following the screening of his film criticizing Israeli occupation. Yariv Horowitz was rendered unconscious as a result of the beating Monday by several men...
Robin Kelly refuses to debate...
1)All that glitters Politico published an analysis of President Obama's recent trip to the Middle East by Josh Gerstein, Obama in Israel: 5 takeaways (h/t The Israel Link). While the article isn't awful, it suffers from a lack of substance. The five takeaways are: Bibi and Barack...
"The monstrosity has ...
Earlier this week, I noted that the banks in Cyprus will be opening Thursday, once the regular people had time to embrace the levy and understand all the awesome goodness in the new bailout plan. Shockingly, the Cypriots are still not down with the political solution...
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Shocker? She's been getting stranger by the day, including her claim that running against Mitch McConnell was like being raped. Democrats were going to swoon over Judd, and try to turn her into the next Elizabeth Warren. Who will they swoon around now, or are they...
Not long ago Politico's Maggie Haberman ran an anti-Palin opinion piece masquerading as news analysis, Sarah Palin’s next act: Candidate or ‘Kardashian’? I addressed that false choice in my post, Politico’s next act: Real News Organization or Gawker (no offense to Gawker), noting that Palin had backed numerous successful Republican...
Amid the tales of sequestration travails, observing the response by Yellowstone National Park to a 5% cut in the National Park Service's budget reveals just what priorities are being applied by administrators. Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk's handling of the situation: freeze permanent hires, hire fewer seasonal...
Matt Lewis has a very interesting take on the "culture wars," The culture war was never a fair fight (emphasis): Let's take a step back for a moment first. Many prominent conservatives, like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, argue that conservatives just want to be left alone. In...
That's the format of a joke I often told about calling up state regulators when I was in private practice. They go off duty at 5 p.m., so the phone stops being answered at a few minutes before because a conversation started at 4:57...
Today is oral argument in Windsor v. United States, challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. We have not followed the DOMA litigation very carefully to date. We did cover the secondary boycott effort directed at the King & Spalding law firm. There was a truly abysmal threat to...
There is plenty to criticize about Elizabeth Warren's made-for-YouTube theatrics in the Senate Banking Committee. Warren has some good goals shared on both sides of the aisle, such as addressing "too big to fail" and "too big to prosecute," but unfortunately she goes about it the wrong way...
John Kerry is not making much diplomatic progress on anything, unless you consider forcing Israel to apologize for acting lawfully in the face of aggression to be progress. Maybe he's been heading too many soccer balls. MT @markhalperin: John Kerry avec soccer ball on his head, as...
Touré Neblett has built his career with the worst race card baiting, directed at conservatives and the Tea Party in general, and black conservatives in particular. Now Touré is targeting Dr. Ben Carson. It's a shame that someone with the accomplishments of Dr. Carson even needs to...
