March 3, 2007

Failure By Design

Tim F over at Balloon Juice brings up something I've been meaning to blog about for some time now. First his take, then mine: A piece by Kevin Drum reminds... [More]

March 5, 2007

Watching Joe Learn To Blog

The Swampland experiment over at Time Magazine has been fascinating to watch. After years of getting hammered by the progressive bloggers, Joe Klein entered the fray, and from day one... [More]

March 8, 2007

About That Realignment

So I just gave a lecture today in Intro to American Politics about critical realignment theory, and at the end, as I was running out of time, I gave a... [More]

March 13, 2007

"Shills of Negativity"

Well put, sir. Well put. Gary Kamiya @ Salon. Yet despite their supposed beliefs, a kind of nihilism, an intellectual sterility, emanates from the Coulters and Limbaughs of the world.... [More]

March 15, 2007

TIME: How the Right Went Wrong

You couldn't craft a better realignment cover if you tried. Wow.... [More]

March 27, 2007

The Coming Conservative Crack-Up

Kevin Drum, riffing off a post by John Quiggin, has an interesting take today on some of the potential reasons we're seeing growing fissures within Bush and Reagan's conservative coalition.... [More]

Conservative Crack-Up Makes Me Crack Up

Hilarious story by ThinkProgress demonstrating how deeply illogical the conservative movement has become. A group known as the Western Business Roundtable sent out an action alert warning its members of... [More]