Month: January 2014

Clintonistas Organizing in Iowa

The Ready for Hillary PAC was active in Iowa over the weekend, and they are trying to figure out how to help Clinton’s campaign even before she announces that she’s a candidate. It’s probably helpful that she...

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Some Thoughts on Ezra’s New Venture

I am intrigued by Ezra Klein’s ambition to provide a more contextual form of reporting. I agree with him that newspapers are less good at explaining why things are happening than they are at explaining what is happening....

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Odds & Ends

Matthew O’Brien, writing in The Atlantic, asks if the American Dream is dead in the South. Roy Edroso reads Jonah Goldberg so you don’t have to. Did you know that Elizabeth Warren and Tom Coburn teamed up to...

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BridgeTroll – Dangling Threads – Update #8

From the moment I heard Karnacki say “look at the Ft. Lee development project,” my completely intuitive take was that the toll booth stunt was designed to shut it down in some way.  A closer look indicated that...

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Fighting in a Defensive Crouch

This is just ridiculous: WASHINGTON (AP) — Income inequality is out, “ladders of opportunity” is in. Eager to dispel claims that President Barack Obama is engaging in “class warfare” as he heads into his...

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