Is This Thing On?

I've been thinking for a couple days about what it must be like to work for the McCain campaign. I am thinking this because on Sunday night, I read Paul Rosenberg's OpenLeft post about the Internet and how it changes the media environment for politics (specifically, how it makes Rovian attack-politics infeasible). And because I then refreshed OpenLeft and saw the greatest blogpost of all time: McCain's New Strategy: Giant Yardsigns , by Matt Stoller Stoller adds: "A... more

So, we are understandably very focused on the budget and everything, but, I thought it might be useful to note some other things. The Inquirer ran a strange anti-labor op-ed yesterday , that was basically an advice column on how employers can fight against the incredibly important "Card Check Law" that will make it easier to unionize. Matt Stoller has more, and actually got a response from the author, Wolf Block attorney James Redeker: The unintended consequence is not only from EFCA i... more

I am sorry but this is crazy. The school board in Portland, Maine has lost their minds. The Portland school board on Wednesday approved a measure allowing middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents....... more

Wow He says that he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa� because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really�, and...... more

But remember, they’re not racists, their anti-immigration sentiment is all about "national security" and not because they want America to be whites-only. Heaven forbid we listen to what racists like National Review’s John Derbyshire actually say: In an October 18...... more

And it fails the American people. That’s why all they can do is bash Sen. Clinton: What the Republican field fails to realize is that the America that Goldwater and Reagan defended against the presumed predations of government no longer...... more