Kevin Drum, the Leonidas of the left 49-yard line, predicts the ways in which a Romney presidency would differ from an Obama presidency. Drum assumes that Romney would have a Republican majority in the Senate, so this is not a best-case scenario for liberals. I...
Kevin Drum on Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich
Kevin Drum advises those who want a noninterventionist, pro–civil liberties candidate to ditch Ron Paul and look elsewhere. I grew curious about what Drum had to say about the two least interventionist, most pro–civil liberties Democrats who ran for president in 2008....
Kevin Drum: Not a Crackpot
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones has some fatherly advice for all you idiots: Bottom line: Ron Paul is not merely a "flawed messenger" for these views. He's an absolutely toxic, far-right, crackpot messenger for these views. This is, granted, not...
Deep Thoughts From The Guardian
Will the Republicans ban sex in 2010 [sic]? Why did those "government-hating," "market-worshipping" Republicans "sacrifice all the workers and retirees"? Why mustn't we despise our corrupt, corporatist governments? Read The Guardian and find out! Well, OK, just read...
Journey to the Center of an Islamophobe’s Mind
I don't know how my arcane little post on Frank Gaffney's World War I theories launched a discussion of Shariah law, bikinis, "executive gays," and Ted Nugent, but Eric Dondero dropped in, so… Dondero is raving about, among other things, a county in Maryland providing...
Frank Gaffney Slams Noted Libertarian Isolationists Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
I missed this Frank Gaffney column from a couple of weeks ago: I had an unsettling flashback last week listening to two of the Republican presidential candidates talk about foreign policy. Representative Ron Paul of Texas and former Utah Governor Jon Hunstman espoused...
Newt Gingrich and Dave Weigel Will Bomb Knowledge Back to the Stone Age
SEE UPDATE BELOW. Dave Weigel is a history buff: [Newt Gingrich's] last full-on grapple with Romney came when the former governor attacked him, in a sort of more-in-sorrow-than-anger way, for saying that the Palestinians were an "invented people." That, said Romney,...
He Has Been With His Current Wife for a While Now
Today in questionable headlines: "Gingrich courting the Jews."
To Mark This Solemn Day, I’m Having a Luau
Today's hardest-hitting news story: "You'll Never Guess What The Obama Kids' School Is Serving For Lunch Today." Don't care? Well, you should. It's a "heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame,...
Libertarian Commissars Proclaim Jon Huntsman Safe as Milk
TPM reveals the presidential preferences of D.C. libertarians: Libertarians in Washington are not happy about how the Republican primary is shaping up. Barring a miracle, there are two candidates with a decent shot at the nomination. Mitt Romney, the godfather of...