New Crossroads Ad Not Aimed At Liberals

Reacting to the new Crossroads GPS ad yesterday, Jamelle Bouie accused Romney of “running the most mendacious presidential campaign in recent memory.” Steve Benen complained “the political world has become inured to the constant lying, and it’s not a healthy development.” Bob Cesca worries about the impact of this fact-free propaganda on the “undecided moderate […]

Where Credit Is Due

Of course, if it had gone wrong, I’m sure the question of ownership would be just as earnestly argued on both sides, right?

Why Progressives Don’t Get All Their Cookies

While disappointed, marijuana activists have no one but themselves to blame if they invested too much in a president. For as I keep saying, presidents don’t make the laws — especially presidents who understand constitutional law. Obama clarified his administration’s medical marijuana policy to Rolling Stone this week: What I specifically said (during the campaign) was […]

Occupy Irrelevance

I’ve entertained hope that Occupy would evolve into what tea parties pretended to be, and failed to become: a populist uprising that grows roots and becomes a lasting force. Unfortunately, the militantly-leaderless nature of the movement lends itself to success-averse puritopians like this guy: “I don’t see any opportunity inside electoral politics this year,” long-time activist […]

Major Barbara

This blog has willingly engaged in open controversy lately over the president’s use of wartime authority. Do not mistake this work for some kind of apologetics, and rest assured I am as affirmatively liberal in my views on the subject as Fabian playwright George Bernard Shaw. Major Barbara, published in 1905, is a meditation on […]