Very fine piece on On the Media today on how the Evangelical right gulled and guilted the media into habitually giving it three times more coverage than its actual numbers deserve:

I'm inspired by Digby's re-post of some 2006 reflections on why unregulated state surveillance isn't such a great idea, and our president's warning that maitaining the ancient and honorable right of habeus corpus means terrorists might soon be walking Main Streat USA, to re-post a patriotic reminder of my own.

Thank you, Washington Independent:

Contest: caption this photograph...

Here's my entry: In a bid for Midwestern voters devastated by runaway manufacturing jobs, John McCain and Joe Lieberman pose with shipping containers in Third World country seeking free trade deal.

Here's the rest of my answer to my friend who asked me to explain why conservatives are in disarray. Nothing that will be new to longtime readers, who—newbies, too!—are invited to contribute their own reflection in the comments:

A friend recently asked me to summarize why conservatives seem to be in such disarray these days. I listed four reasons, in separate paragraphs; "BIlls come due," was how I began the fourth:

Do these guys look like Democrats to you?

Very fine piece on On the Media today on how the Evangelical right gulled and guilted the media into habitually giving it three times more coverage than its actual numbers deserve:

I'm inspired by Digby's re-post of some 2006 reflections on why unregulated state surveillance isn't such a great idea, and our president's warning that maitaining the ancient and honorable right of habeus corpus means terrorists might soon be walking Main Streat USA, to re-post a patriotic reminder of my own.

Thank you, Washington Independent:

Contest: caption this photograph...

Here's my entry: In a bid for Midwestern voters devastated by runaway manufacturing jobs, John McCain and Joe Lieberman pose with shipping containers in Third World country seeking free trade deal.

Here's the rest of my answer to my friend who asked me to explain why conservatives are in disarray. Nothing that will be new to longtime readers, who—newbies, too!—are invited to contribute their own reflection in the comments:

A friend recently asked me to summarize why conservatives seem to be in such disarray these days. I listed four reasons, in separate paragraphs; "BIlls come due," was how I began the fourth:

Do these guys look like Democrats to you?

Earlier this afternoon I wrote about how "tactically speaking the party of conservatism is more the heir to Watergate than it is to Goldwater." Here's a little tidbit from the archives dug up by Sean Wilentz in his new book