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Stop & Frisk Nation: “nothing to worry about if you haven’t done anything” right.

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Guilty.

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Enough of this.

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Today’s far right Republican elected officials hate Harvard elite egghead nerds know-it-als until they find one who agrees with them. Enter Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Their bad calculations, omitted data, flawed research led to holy grail of the “Austerity is teh tussin for everything!” study quoted by Republicans and right of center [...]

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Not a Happy Mother’s Day Parade.

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Judge rules against Obama/Bush Plan B contraception photo-id ruling

Judge rules against Obama/Bush Plan B contraception photo-id ruling. Go read it. He rightfully berates the administrations counsel for trying to defend a policy designed to appease religious and anti-sex/slut shaming zealots. It’s also interesting to note this case is being argued as three women enslaved as teens by three brothers are found after 10 [...]

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Remember when

Ezra Klein establishes some needed perspective for the “remember when Washington worked” punditry: We’re not going to figure out a way to depolarize the parties. Whenever you think of the irenic Washington of the ’50s and ’60s, think about Strom Thurmond, one of the most ideologically conservative members of Congress, serving as a Democrat. The [...]

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UPenn Student Aakash Abbi Op-Ed: It’s you Frank Luntz not us.

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Supposed to work? Kharzai, Warlords and Political Bosses on the payroll.

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Marlins Park Exterior

Miami-Dade & City of Miami taxpayers pay Jeffrey Loria to have a stadium

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Doesn’t mean you’re good at everything

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Noonan, Dowd & Scarborough advise Obama: pass gun control by threatening senators w/violence, speeches, blackmail

Samuel L. Jackson is Barack Obama. John Travolta is Joe Biden in “Tyler Perry’s Think Like a Man 2? featuring Maureen Dowd as Steve Harvey

Maureen Dowd: He’s not like one of my angry drunk uncles who knew how to push a woman or man around to get whatever they wanted. Including more whiskey, steak, or signature gun control legislation. Peggy Noonan says it in her soothing post-brunch pre-tea time voice: Who knew so many older white people wanted us [...]

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New Math: Megyn Kelly cover > Dana Perino original composition.

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Not a Given: Production of Dangerous Chemicals should be regulated

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Go Ahead and Run: Elizabeth Colbert Busch.