By • Jan 26,2009

Boehner vs. Boehner on bipartisanship

Yesterday: MR. [DAVID] GREGORY: Well, let me stop you there, because you say that you can’t borrow and spend…Doesn’t the government have to be the spender of last resort? REP....

By • Jan 26,2009

Stimulating something besides the economy

John Boehner: “How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that stimulate the economy?” Boehner’s office explained, One proposal included in the stimulus package would...

By • Jan 26,2009

Succinct and to the point

Who doesn’t love stumbling across one or two sentence descriptions that capture something we feel to be true but can’t quite articulate? In that vein I present Ben McGrath, writing...

By • Jan 26,2009

Everyone hates the Boomers

I was pleased to read Michelle Cottle’s take on the NY Times’s new Baby Boomer column today, in particular this paragraph: But by far my favorite part is Winerip’s attempts...

By • Jan 26,2009

Gitmo

Now that Gitmo’s closing, I wonder how long it will be before we can have a reasonable discussion on the topic. My guess is, “not for a while.” Critics of...