First, the announcement: Starting next week, I will be an Assistant Editor at Above the Law, covering the comings and goings of the legal industry. It’s something of a full-circle journey for me since a year ago I was an…
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Breakfast in America: January 23, 2012
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Don’t look now, but filibuster reform could get crazy. This is just smooth stupidity. I will also point out that the Obama philosophy does not reflect the “51% of people,” but those people plus many, many, many others who could…
Inaugural Address: President Obama Makes Democrats the Conservative Party
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I let a day go by to digest President Obama’s inaugural address and consider its implications. Waiting a day also allowed me to peruse the insta-pundit response and gauge the impact of the speech — the “secondary explosion” to use…
Breakfast in America: January 15, 2012
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An interesting, if ultimately wrong, look at Jack Lew. The best line is “it’s puzzling to me that, when they want jobs, they bad-mouth the private sector.” When did the business sector become complete wusses — “aw, he hurt my…
David Vitter Plays Horrific Game of Disaster Olympics
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Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, best known for hiring prostitutes and then keeping his job (something New Yorkers wish Eliot Spitzer had the good sense to do) took to Twitter to label Harry Reid an “idiot” today after the…
Breakfast in America: January 7, 2012
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America trusts the intelligence community waaaay too much. Obama is throwing down over Chuck Hagel. Ted Cruz is the sort of guy who says shit without citing evidence. Segregation is alive and well in Delaware.
The Speakers Who Weren’t
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John Boehner successfully got his caucus together long enough to re-elect him as Speaker of the House on the first ballot, beating out Nancy Pelosi. We know what to expect from Boehner’s leadership (basically nothing — the 112th Congress was…
Merkley’s Right — Filibusters Should Be Spoken
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There’s some understandable dissing of the Merkley/Udall “speaking filibuster” reform idea out there. Critics of this measure say, “if the number of votes necessary to overcome a filibuster remains at 60, who cares if they have to talk?” This kind…
War on Christmas Says A Lot About the Modern Conservative Mentality
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War on Christmas types are self-indulgent children. There I said it. When you spend a disproportionate amount of time concerned that the public school isn’t naming your Nativity scene the greatest accomplishment ever, it’s not that the school declared a…
Afternoon Update
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Well, I’ve been a little slow today due to a series of errands and an article appearing later today over at Above the Law, but I’m at work on tomorrow’s articles for your reading pleasure. By way of preview, an…