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As Ozzie Guillen Learned the Hard Way, Cuba Still Matters
If Ozzie Guillen, the new manager of the Miami Marlins, had professed his love for Fidel Castro in any other part of the country, he probably wouldn’t have been suspended for five games, as the team announced today. On the …
What About the Settlements?
I’ve been reading Peter Beinart’s excellent, loving and wise book about Israel, The Crisis of Zionism, and I’d normally wait until I finish to write about it, but I’ve become so distressed by the thuggish, half-crazed response that the book has received from neocon fringe elements, like this Commentary writer, that I felt I had to pitch …
“As I’ve been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I’ve learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved. I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry.”
FBI Unveils Broader Wall Street Insider Trading Probe
How House Republicans Are Whipping for Debt Ceiling Votes
By showing their members this clip from a Ben Affleck bank robber movie, says the WashPost:
Douglas Holtz-Eakin Explains the Debt Limit
Sorkin was funnier. But here’s a more serious–and therefore more bracing–explanation by a prominent GOP economist. That it comes from a staunchly conservative Republican makes it all the more striking.
Aaron Sorkin Explains the Debt Ceiling
Okay, Japan might not actually slide into the sea. The rest might not be too far off.
The Five Biggest Flip-Flops of the Debt Ceiling Debate
They say in politics that you know you’ve become a statesman when you’ve been on almost every side of an issue at one time or another. When Washington politicians draw lines in the sand, those lines are almost always …
As the Debt Debate Shifts, Tea Partyers Plan to Hold Their Ground
As word broke that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner may be nearing a deal that would raise the debt limit while cutting $3.5 trillion over the next decade, a large group of Republicans were serving notice that the pact likely won’t be enough to mollify the party’s conservative wing. A bicameral cadre of some 20 GOP …
Law Enforcement as a Counterterrorism Tool
David Kris, the former head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division and an expert in national security law, has published in a scholarly journal a lengthy defense of the use of criminal prosecution as one tool in the larger counterterrorism toolbox. Kris is universally respected on both sides of the aisle: he worked on …
Michelle Bachmann and the Sexism Factor
After the apology of senior advisor Vin Weber for referring to Michele Bachmann’s “sex appeal,” Tim Pawlenty’s team is learning the hard way that campaigning against a woman can be uniquely tricky. The charge of sexism constantly lurks just around the corner. It is frequently justified, because politics and media remains a male-dominated …
Where Democrats Erred on Health Reform, Peter Orszag Edition
Former Obama Administration budget director Peter Orszag has not exactly worked hard to maintain friendly ties with the White House since he left his post in the summer of 2010. First, he took a job writing columns for The New York Times, the first of which ran in September 2010 and suggested extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, …
