Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe asks: Does anyone have a right to tell anyone else how many kids to have? Can only people who can afford them bear children? Do you need a husband to have a baby? These are questions that make us feel queasy when we are talking about old-fashioned families. But they take […]
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere. Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble. It is jolly well amazing to me that Obama should be resorting to the politics of fear so quickly. There’s a simple reason that he is resorting to this tactic at this time; He’s losing. He’s about ready […]
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post: After Obama’s miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be […]
Explain why this is a good bill. I double dog dare you. And if you can’t or won’t, explain why I shouldn’t be siding with the GOP in opposition, despite how crazy they are John Cole, Balloon Juice, via James Joyner, Outside the Beltway.