Does anyone know what an “inappropriate physical relationship” even means? Does it matter, given the carnival nuttiness of the South Carolina GOP? First, let’s back up. Mark Sanford, the sitting GOP governor, fell in love with someone who was not his wife, told his staff he was going backpacking, then flew secretly to Argentina and [...]
Nike honors the occasion with perhaps the best advertisement in sporting history. Don’t agree? Paste a better sports ad in the comments below.
Last week, Rand Paul turned on Rachel Maddow. After Maddow invited him on her show, and painted his libertarian views as a proxy support for private sector segregation, Paul announced that he had been attacked by the “Looney Left.” So it goes. Politics ain’t T-ball. Yet we can all still hope that one day Maddow [...]
Much of DC (and, I think, America) was riveted to the series finale of Lost last night. I loved it, even though it confused me on a plot level: did Jack’s son ever really exist? What about Locke’s fiancee? TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik has an excellent wrap up here.
About a week ago, Connecticut Attorney General/U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Blumenthal gathered a bunch of veterans around him to rebut suggestions that he had intentionally misled people about his Vietnam service. He admitted to using the phrase “in Vietnam” instead of “during Vietnam,” but urged on by the guttural objections of the men around him [...]
–Republicans picked up a House seat in Hawaii Saturday, even though 60 percent of the vote went to two other Democratic candidates. It’s the first special election win for the GOP since May of 2008, 11 special elections ago. But it may not mean much, since everything about the race is odd, including the fact [...]
Jobless claims rise by largest amount in 3 months. “Although no one expects this volatile series to go in one direction every single week, this is clearly a disappointment,” said Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. Paul Krugman speculates that America is becoming “lost decade” Japan. Will the worst happen? Not necessarily. Maybe [...]
David Rothkopf has a very good essay in which he details Israel’s failure to understand the changing strategic balance in the Middle East–and, adding on to the argument made by Peter Beinart in the New York Review of Books, the changing perception of Israel among younger (non-evangelical, non-orthodox) Americans.
