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I tend to doubt that Sarah Palin marked up her hands just to attract incoming liberal fire, and I really don’t believe Rich is serious on that point, but the rest of his analysis of the current situation is absolutely spot on. He makes the point that the Republicans have skillfully, if mendaciously, cast themselves […]

There is a trick you can use on children, providing they’re young enough. It’s often called “reverse psychology”, and it consists of, for instance, offering an obstreperous youngster something you don’t want him to have, in the expectation that he will insist on the opposite. It’s often hard to manipulate anyone older than four with […]

A reasonably good editorial in this morning’s Day, decrying the recent Supreme Court decision that handed the government over to the corporations. One quibble and one more serious caveat. While it’s true that the decision also gave the unions the right to spend unlimited amounts on campaigns, that fact is not worth mentioning in the […]

The Democrats are busy drawing the wrong lessons from yesterday’s Massachusett’s debacle. But we may take some cheer in the fact that quite likely the Republicans are missing the cloud in the silver lining. The fruits of victory, in politics at least, often contain the seeds of future defeats. Scott Brown is the new Republican […]

The Big Banks are weighing a constitutional challenge to the tax that Obama is proposing to impose, to recover the government’s bailout costs. According to experts consulted by the New York Times the legal theory behind the challenge is “dubious”: [The Bank’s] primary argument, however, might be that a tax so narrowly focused would penalize […]