Lopping off appendages
So, I should be crunching a bunch of numbers for the next big thing here. But the mere thought makes my brain hurt. I’ll get to it in a moment. But in the meantime… The big headline across the front …...
View ArticleDroning on
Good bit by Taibbi on the mental gymnastics so much of the media is performing to excuse drone strikes: The news that the executive branch had claimed for itself the power to assassinate Americans...
View ArticleBig government, big problems
Man. Time to flip the lights back on around here. The past few weeks have been mired in a big package that comes out this weekend on the soaring costs of special education. It’s one of those issues –...
View ArticleLeviathan lurches
Given the general atmosphere of mistrust in government that’s constantly ginned up on the right – but which, in the wake of the IRS/AP and now Fox News spying scandals also tends to creep up on the...
View ArticleIn your backyard
A revised version of what follows here may end up as the print edition. Who knows. But, following on the heels of the print edition last week, the suggestion has been – that’s small potatoes. The idea...
View ArticleWhat’s to like?
Been following the amazing story of Glenn Greenwald’s partner being detained at Heathrow Airport, Greenwald of course being the U.K. Guardian write who’s been reporting on Edward Snowden’s revelations...
View ArticleReaching for The One
The debate, always, is between decentralization and greater centralized authority. It is the nature of man to seek order in the chaos, and that requires the imposition of order. Monarchs made kingdoms...
View ArticleI come to bury, and praise, the Tea Party
What follows here may be excerpted – even in its entirety, if it comes out coherent enough – for this weekend’s column, as April Kelly-Woessner and I are ruminating on the politics of the shutdown and...
View ArticleLoving freedom yet hating democracy
I’ll get deeper into this idea in the vid tomorrow and the column this weekend, but: On the heels of the government shutdown, it strikes me that what we’re seeing is a conservative rejection – not just...
View ArticleRebels without a clue
Hard to write a column for Sunday on Tuesday, when you don’t know if there’s actually going to be a debt ceiling deal, or whether we’re going to default, and WHAT IT ALL MEANS, etc. Nonetheless: A few...
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