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A Republican consultant in Nevada thinks that Sue Lowden is in a hole on “chickens for checkups” and needs to stop digging.
Archive for April, 2010
April 22nd, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Reid is tired of stalling, and ready to call a lie a lie. Good for him!
April 22nd, 2010
The perpetrators of last fall’s faculty senate resolution, that intercollegiate athletics at Berkeley be funded according to the rules and according to their appropriate role in a university, have an op-ed in the S.F. Chronicle. The chancellor appears to have a concept of “shared governance” that differs from what many might think the phrase means. [...]
April 21st, 2010
Category: Law Notes
I’m no judge of judicial horseflesh, but CSheryl Gay Stolberg makes a mighty persuasive case for Diane Wood as the next Supreme Court nominee. She has a record of getting along with, and even sometimes persuading, Posner and Easterbrook, which is going to make it hard to portray her as being out on the left [...]
April 21st, 2010
Category: John McCain, Watching Conservatives
Why would a Senator Crist caucus with the people who put a knife in his back?
April 21st, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Sue Lowden really did mean “bartering” for health care. Amazing!
April 20th, 2010
Category: Financial crises
Mark Halperin calls the Republicans liars over financial services reform.
April 20th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
The staff of the International Monetary Fund – no doubt a bunch of committed socialists – has some ideas.
April 20th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
A second favorable mainstream-media story about hallucinogens within a week, this time on their use to help people face terminal diagnoses.
April 20th, 2010
Category: Financial crises
On financial reform, the Democrats have the Republicans in a box.