The nuttiest of the nutty: The Birthers

11 comments March 1st, 2009

 

 First, you’ve got your garden-variety crackpots. Then, you’ve got your tinfoil-hat crowd.

 And then there are THESE GUYS.

Roland Burris is right: The media have reported things about him that are inaccurate

6 comments March 1st, 2009

 

There was a time within the past few months when the media generally took Roland Burris at his word.

It turned out that the media were WRONG to do so.

Obama’s budget treats taxpayers like grown-ups

1 comment March 1st, 2009

 

An editorial in this morning’s Newsday SAYS President Obama’s proposed budget is “refreshing” for its “extraordinary candor.”

The newspaper argues that Obama has ”ditched Washington-style budget sleight-of-hand and honestly laid out what the government will actually spend. It has been common for presidents from both parties to employ gimmicks to make their choices appear more palatable.”

Conservatives are not all the same

3 comments March 1st, 2009

The notion that the political right in America is a monolith is belied by THIS PIECE in the American Conservative magazine in which the Republican Party is advised to “quit treating middle class, working class, or rural Americans like an interest group to be mollified by symbolic, substance-free BS.”