Jesse Singal

I don’t think I was very clear in my earlier post. I’m not implying that President Obama should start going around and saying, “We need to increase taxes on the rich so we can redistribute their money to the less-rich.” Of course not. But there are still ways to get people to buy into the […]

There’s a really informative piece up at TPM about how Mitt Romney’s tax plans simply don’t add up: Romney’s tax cuts are projected to cost the federal government $5 trillion over 10 years, on top of the $4 trillion 10-year cost of making the Bush tax cuts permanent. Existing deductions and exemptions in the tax […]

It’s a little bit frustrating that President Obama feels the need to talk in these sorts of terms: CARTAGENA, Colombia—President Barack Obama argued Sunday that his calls for wealthier Americans to pay a greater share of taxes aren’t about sharing the wealth, but about getting the American economy on a path for solid growth. “That […]

I really, really wish I had time to read this lengthy Texas Monthly article, which Daniel Luzer tells me will only be free for a day or so before it is paywalled, but I’m probably not going to: Eight years ago, Dan Rather broadcast an explosive report on the Air National Guard service of President […]

I miss Boston today. I miss my parents’ house in Newton, just down the street from Heartbreak Hill. I miss the smell of hot dogs and the undulating buzz of the crowd and the Sox on the radio and the anticipation as the wheelchair racers and women and men passed by, faces set with that […]

Today’s front-page article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Heroin addiction among parents and a poor economy are pushing more children into Missouri’s foster care system at a time when lawmakers want to cut nearly $13.6 million from the state foster care budget and eliminate dozens of child protection jobs. And those aren’t the only cuts […]

This Times story about what attendees of the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in St. Louis think about the Trayvon Martin case is very much worth a read: Eager to explain the benefits of carrying a concealed weapon, hikers discussed how they feared bandits more than bears on the trail. Aging men rattled off hypothetical […]

Of course I agree with John Avlon that it would be nice if Republican Rep. Allen West were called to account for saying that he believes “there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party.” It’s a serious accusation to throw out so casually. But conservatives have […]

From MSNBC.com: PALM BEACH, FL — Mitt Romney went well beyond his standard stump speech at a closed-door fundraiser on Sunday evening, and offered some of the most specific details to date about the policies he would pursue if elected. In a speech to donors in the backyard of a private home here, the former […]

Hi, everyone. It is a pleasure to be back in these hallowed blog-halls. I have very little to say about the British parliamentarian who offered a bounty of £10 million for the capture of President Obama or George W. Bush. I guess I should denounce it? Does it even rise to that level, or is […]