Jesse Singal

It was a lot of fun, everyone. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

I asked Pantheon to send me a copy of Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion because I had every intention of blogging some interesting excerpts from it on Political Animal this weekend, and it arrived on Friday. Alas, life interfered, and I am a measly 20 pages […]

…this is already getting tiring, isn’t it? Still, I should post the “Clarification” he appended to the post in question, which wrongly accused President Obama of “essentially calling for the shooter to be arrested and convicted” despite the fact that Obama had said no such thing: Clarification: Washington Monthly’s Jesse Singal calls me out for […]

Gayle Greene’s Sunday Review piece defending sleeping pills shines some valuable nuance on the medicate/don’t medicate debate. Greene, who has long struggled with severe insomnia, writes that a new study claiming to find a link between sleeping pills and premature mortality doesn’t really pass methodological muster. That said, she isn’t blind to the dangers of […]

Commenter tanstaafl steals a point I had wanted to make: From the linked article, “The Southern Poverty Law Center says the New Black Panther Party, a black-separatist group founded in 1989, is “virulently racist and anti-Semitic,” and its leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law officers.” The article doesn’t mention that they are […]

(Update: Moran responded.) Rick Moran of The American Thinker: The president jumps into the Trayvon Martin controversy without all the facts being known, essentially calling for the shooter to be arrested and convicted, and yet it is GOP cadidates [sic] criticizing the president who are “reprehensible” according to Obama advisor David Plouffe? The use of […]

Sometimes, that’s all you can say: White House senior adviser David Plouffe did not mince words Sunday when talking about the reaction by Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich to President Barack Obama’s comments on the Trayvon Martin shooting. “Those two comments are really irresponsible. I would consider them reprehensible,” Plouffe said on […]

In today’s Boston Globe, columnist and very-nice-guy-even-though-I-disagree-with-him-on-politics Jeff Jacoby wonders why the GOP has so much trouble appealing to youth voters (he is not the first conservative to wonder this). He invokes Mitt Romney’s remarks at a University of Chicago event last week: The Democratic Party “is focused on providing more and more benefits to […]

This New Black Panther bounty announcement really isn’t going to help those who are seeking justice for Trayvon Martin and his family. There’s no warrant out for George Zimmerman yet. There’s nothing to arrest him for. If and when charges are handed down, finding him will not be a problem for long. If the New […]

There’s some striking honesty in Harold Pollack’s take on Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Harold’s characteristic empathy and insight are also on display, as tends to be the case whenever he writes anything: I’m still trying to wrap my head around what was in George Zimmerman’s head that led him to shoot a young high […]