I have pondered the psychology of politics for many years. I first concluded that fear was the defining difference: conservatives carry guns, live in gated communities, want controlled borders, support law and order and drive SUVs that feel safer. But …
Emily Bazelon has an excellent post highlighting the contradictions in yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to block video streaming of the CA gay marriage trial, e.g. The problem, the majority says, is that in his haste, Judge Walker changed a federal …
Glenn Greenwald is consistently brilliant. Here he eviscerates Jane Harman for changing her position on wire-tapping once it happens to her. “So if I understand this correctly — and I’m pretty sure I do — when the U.S. Government eavesdropped …
Obama wanted to move into Blair House early so his children could start school, but it was reported that it was unavailable. Now we find out why: John Howard, the ex-Prime Minister of Australia, is in town for one night …
There has been much comment that this was a post-racial election. Yes and no. Look at the electoral shifts since 2004. A broad swath across the center of the country voted MORE Republican than in 2004, and I can see …
This election is like no other, and here’s why: it’s a populist election for the first time. What has created that is technology: the internet, video cameras, easy video editing, YouTube and social networking sites like Digg. In all previous …
What is it with Republicans that they have such difficulty with grammar? Here’s Palin: I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and …
In the Washington Post, McCain called the Georgia invasion “the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” So the US must have invaded Iraq despite it’s not being a serious crisis. I guess 9/11 wasn’t …
“Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?” asks the NYTimes: “they’ve done so in ways that straight news programs cannot: speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language” “Jon Stewart [is] as substantive as network news” Indiana …
The GOP is busy painting Obama as elitist, arrogant, out-of-touch. Glenn Greenwald covers this well. But McCain is the man with $520 shoes and eight homes.