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Does anyone else think the State of the Union Address is on pretty tenuous constitutional ground? I’m no constitutional scholar, but here’s the relevant passage in the document: “He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall [...]

There’s a great Tucker Carlson article from a couple of years back (reprinted here) where he attempts to convince the Democrats that they’ve lost their sense of humor: too self-serious, too PC, etc. It’s a funny piece. But there’s a gem in there that’s been in the back of my mind since I first read [...]

I can deal with “the ability to spot the pink,” “it tastes like metal,” and “not to boast, but I’ve had eight cans today,” but four words I never, ever again want to read in the dieretic* New Yorker are “retro cachet of Tab”: As if the mainstream media were not beleaguered enough, now comes [...]

Via Slog, we see that The National Review has taken Matski’s bait on the metaphorical implications of Pittsburgh v. Seattle in the Superbowl: GO STEELERS! [Michael Novak] So it’s steeltown America on the rise, the rough and the ready, not a rich team but always fighting and always playing smash-mouth, and running hard, and slashing… [...]

How is Season Two of The Sopranos like the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit? Click here to find out.

The big question over the weekend was what will happen in Israel/Palestine now that Hamas is in charge. Thursday, we wondered whether it wasn’t actually an OK thing. That led to open speculation that perhaps this was, if not a desired result, at least an acceptable outcome. Today, Administration officials seem to support this reading, [...]

This week: A political party with a fervently religious base wins a surprising election by promising to change the tone in Palestine. Has Karl Rove been consulting for Hamas? Plus, we’ll share our thoughts on the President’s upcoming State of the union. Episode230.m4a

How confusing is health care policy in America? So confusing that the New York Times can’t even figure out if American business is for more government intervention or against it. On page one of today’s print edition, business is still relatively hostile to the idea of socialized medicine: Over the years, many employers have become [...]

Slashdot readers will have noted this yesterday, but for those of you not trolling the net in search of arcane arguments among Linux geeks, Emory University announced the results of a study of the psychology of political partisianship, leading one site to conclude that “Democrats and Republicans alike are adept at making decisions without letting [...]

Yesterday, exit polls in the Palestinian territories seemed to indicate a victory for the less-crazy Fatah party (damn exit polls!) and we all went to bed with our supreme Democracy Porn Fantasy intact. Today it emerges that the more-crazy Hamas party actually won, blowing that sweet dream to pieces (d’oh! bad choice of words!): The [...]