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The hopeless messes in Egypt and Syria recall a lesson drawn by Adam Gopnik in trying to make sense of Edmund Burke 27 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
What in tarnation does Edmund Burke have to do with the price of eggs in Egypt and Syria? More than you might think, I think. "We are no better, or worse, at understanding Iraq from instant video tha...
VoteThemOut2014.net Has A Scorecard 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Vote Them Out is decidedly nonpartisan. They claim to have only one goal: "to vote Congress out in 2014. Hold both sides accountable," they write, "and let's get this country back on course." They off...
DCCC Still Refusing To Go Up Against Vulnerble Republicans In Michigan-- Wasting Time Trying To Take Out Benishek Again... This Time WIth The Former H... 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
The DCCC has recruited a candidate to run in Michigan's first congressional district. Who knows where ex-Kalkaska County Sheriff (1987) and retired Army Major General, commander of the Joint Detention...
The New Teabagger Line In The Sand: Are You Man Enough To Impeach The Kenyan Interloper? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Once upon a time over in GOPWorld, you were a chicken if you weren't willing to vote to shut down the government the way the crackpots and nihilist Hate Talk Radio-inspired zombies who pass for the Re...
When Governing Elites View Students Not As Investments In The Country's Future Prosperity, But As... Easy Pickings 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Trump caught fleecing students Obama, the Republican Party and Democratic congressional leaders put their heads together to work out a "compromise" that would steal nearly a billion dollars from coll...
Andorra-- Probably Not A Place Elizabeth Warren Will Be Buying A Home 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
If you're even a semi-regular DWT visitor you're probably familiar with the video above that helped make Elizabeth Warren's election campaign a cause célèbre for progressives across Massachusetts and ...
War With Syria Scheduled For Next Week? 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Eliot Engel never has America's best interests at heart Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the Russian Duma's International Affairs Committee (imagine a cross between Cold Warriors Bob Menendez and Ed Royce...
Sunday Classics: Arthur Rubinstein offers compelling advice for young pianists 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
"Many pianists perform at their concerts music which they do not understand or particularly like, only because these pieces are much in demand and recommended to them by their managers. . . . My long ...
Why Is Obama Protecting The Tobacco Companies' Deadly Profits? 25 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
A deal with Obama? I'm just back from my little Tuscan summer adventure. I rented a house in the countryside, near the small town of Montespertoli in the Chianti region, with some friends. It wasn't ...
The Clintons certainly aren't above criticism, but aren't they entitled to fair treatment? 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Joe Conason says that the NYT's reporters "dished out unflattering, largely irrelevant anecdotes about Band and Ira Magaziner [above], whose work at the Clinton Health Access Initiative has provided v...
