Listening to John McCain on Wednesday night, you had to wonder if Sheldon Adelson had been giving him some kind of break at the craps tables. His speech was a noxious compendium of the usual neocon blather. He rehearsed the …
The Wall Street Journal’s Cheesecake Fallacy
There I was, reading Atul Gawande’s excellent piece about the future of medicine in the New Yorker, and thinking: hmm. Maybe we won’t need a major government presence in reforming the current, ridiculously wasteful system, maybe the free market will reform itself. After all, Gawande spends most of the piece showing how medical systems, …
Fixing Medicare, For Real
I’m a big fan of Matt Miller’s columns and books about domestic public policy. Today, he has a very good column about the real problem with Medicare. Here’s the most important point:
New Column: Romney’s Foreign Policy Choice
I have a new print column out today, about Mitt Romney’s foreign policy choice: will he be a realist in the manner of George H.W. Bush or a neoconservative idealist, in the manner of George W?
Speaking of which, and given the impending climax of the Iran nuclear negotiations, I think it’s very counterproductive–indeed, maddeningly …
Why Akin Matters
We now have Representative Steve King (R., Ostrich) saying that he never heard of a girl getting pregnant because of statutory rape or incest. He thus joins Rep. Todd Akin (R., Clueless) among the ranks of blithering idiots …
Some Quick Thoughts About Paul Ryan
Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan continues a very deep strand of Republican DNA when it comes to vice presidential picks: Since World War II–with only a few exceptions–Republicans have gone for young, promising junior …
The Ad: Rowboat, Not Swift Boat
Well, just about everybody has weighed in on the Obama-leaning super PAC’s ad about the laid-off steelworker whose wife died of cancer. I was going to pass on my pundocratic responsibilities in this area, especially after Michael Crowley’s way-smart exegesis yesterday, but there’s just no avoiding the thing. It threatens to become one of …
Latest Column: SimBowlism
How Obama has played, and should play, the deficit reduction issue.
I Love Aly Raisman
Not just because she’s a brilliant, beautiful gymnast. But because she announced that she observed a personal moment of silence in memory of the Israeli athletes slain by Palestinian terrorists in 1972. The olympic committee had shamefully refused to make such a gesture. And we should all remember that the 1972 siege/murder in the Jewish …
The Shooter
I’ve always thought that white supremacists were an incredibly powerful argument against white supremacy.
Senority
The New York Times gives Romney adviser Dan Senor front page treatment today, which gives me a chance to praise Dan’s book Startup Nation, and damn his boss, Mitt Romney, for yet another example of intellectual slovenliness.
Latest Column
On Romney’s ad barrage in Ohio.
‘Gunclingers’: Aurora, Assault Weapons and the Rise of Mass Shootings
Some surprising words about gun control from Bill Kristol on Sunday’s Fox News panel:
People have a right to handguns and hunting rifles … I don’t think they have a right to semiautomatic, quasi–machine guns that can shoot hundred of bullets at a time. And I actually think the Democrats are being foolish as they are being
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