Throw Out the Rulebook

By Jul 05,2008

Throw Out the Rulebook

Megan makes a characteristically smart comment: Bill Mayer and Clive just had a very interesting exchange on the topic of the American versus the British approach to financial regulation. American...

By Jul 04,2008

Best. Fourth. Ever.

Not too much to say today…have a happy (and safe) Fourth of July. I’ll be enjoying it in the most American way possible…watching Maury Povich tell promiscuous women who their...

By Jul 03,2008

Grand New Party, cont.

After finishing Ross and Reihan’s book, I was struck by the notion that they want to change the Republican party less than American society: restructuring farming; reimagining education; rebuilding (and...

By Jul 03,2008

Right on Russia

Stephen Cohen has an excellent, urgent column in the IHT on the topic of McCain and Obama’s totally inadequate and positively harmful Russia policies. I have nothing to add for...

By Jul 03,2008

Screwing the SCOTUS Pooch

Here’s a horrible idea: Justice Kennedy, for example, could simply write, “I agree with many of the arguments by four of my colleagues that statute X is unconstitutional, but I...

By Jul 03,2008

Unbreakable

That’s liberal/progressive blogger Brian Beutler, apparently, who had his spleen vented for him in the unsatisfying sense by some contemptible little bastard on the wrong side of Adams Morgan. I...