Adele Stan

So, as I mentioned in my opening post, everybody here in the Village, as digby likes to call it, is all abuzz about what kind of deal the president and House Speaker John Boehner might arrive at in order to avert the pile of automatic spending cuts that will go into effect on January 1 […]

Good morning, Animals. Forgive me for eschewing my customary exclamation point at the end of that greeting, but it’s a grey, raining day here in your nation’s capital, the kind where one’s energy recedes, and puts a literal damper on those great plans one had to haul home a holiday tree from Eastern Market. (Yes, […]

Time to get back to the work of actually living (as opposed to blogging) — you know, eating one’s lunch, playing one’s ukulele, getting one’s groceries in a place where you’re likely to run into senators and pollsters while you order your chicken at an actual butcher’s stall at Eastern Market. It looks to be […]

For Tea Party engineers Dick Armey and Jim DeMint, the 2012 elections were a disaster. Take for instance, Richard Mourdock, the U.S. Senate candidate in Indiana, who described a baby conceived in rape as a gift from the Almighty and enjoyed the backing of both FreedomWorks, chaired as of late by former House Majority Leader […]

In Washington, when a rumor just won’t die, it begins to look like strategy. And one rumor that has Washington riveted is the potential for a deal on the fiscal shenanigans needed to stave off sequester that would raise the eligibility age for Medicare. Reader c u n d gulag points us to the latest […]

In its wisdom, the Supreme Court yesterday decided to hear two cases that will determine the shape of marriage in America — who, by mutual consent, gets to marry the person of his or choosing, with the full benefits and obligations of that legal status, and who does not. One case is a challenge to […]

Good morning, Animals! How good it is to be back, and thank you to Brother Kilgore and Boss Glastris for making it so. Was that some week or what?! I’m speaking of the one just past, of course — quite worthy of that interrobang, what with the DeMint defection, the Armey retreat, the Michigan coup […]

Thank you, Animals, for another delightful weekend back-and-forthing with you all. Time for me to go back to my day job at AlterNet, and prepare to hit the campaign trail. In the meantime, until Brother Kilgore’s return, I leave you with a few tidbits for your consideration: * Bob Schieffer, host of CBS News’ “Face […]

The very Catholic Ross Douthat, one of the New York Times‘ two conservative op-ed page columnists, thinks he knows why mainline Protestant denominations are having trouble filling their pews: They’re too darn liberal. Take, for example, that new policy recently approved by a vote of the governing body of the Episcopal Church: the blessing of […]

Instead of issuing the “correction” that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee-apparent, has requested of the Boston Globe, the Globe yesterday doubled down on its reporting regarding Romney’s involvement with Bain Capital during a period, 1999 – 2002, when Romney claims he had already “retired” from the company. Particularly damning is a […]