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  • Perverse Justice

    A commenter at the Volokh Conspiracy nails it:In the federal system, court loads are managed by plea bargaining. People, who are actually guilty, are undercharged in exchange for being cooperative with expedited procedures. If someone insists on a trial . . . then they are overcharged, with the full consequence [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 8:39am EST

  • Sound and Fury

    The Language Log on Sarah Palin:I think being so utterly unable to explain what one wants to say is truly and reasonably regarded as a defect in one's qualifications for office — partly because being so inept at talking in a controlled and sensible way strongly suggests that there was [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2008, 12:32pm EST

  • Family Values

    President-elect Obama's possible selection of Eric Holder to be Attorney General brings this Miami Herald headline:Obama may tap Elián players for White House rolesThe article notes that the appointment was "infuriating some Cuban-American Republicans who haven't forgotten the 6-year-old boy seized in Miami and sent back to the communist regime." [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2008, 7:43am EST

  • An Alternative Plan

    It probably is too late for it to work, but instead of giving the US automakers 25 billion dollars to keep them going, why not provide a significant tax credit to those who purchase a new car from the Big 3?An average credit of $2500 would encourage the purchase of [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2008, 9:42am EST

  • Time Moves On

    For my two grandfathers, it was John F. Kennedy.For my father it was Jimmy Carter.And for me, it is Barak Obama.I'm referring, of course, to the point in our lives when we were finally older than the president.' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2008, 10:36pm EST

  • BrowardBeat

    Former Sun-Sentinel political columnist Buddy Nevins has started a blog about Broward County politics -- so far it's mostly all about the Lamberti-Israel race for Sheriff. [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2008, 10:29pm EST

  • The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down

    The last non-Southern Democrat elected president was John F. Kennedy in 1960.In 1960, the overwhelming number of schools in the southern states were segregated, as were its universities. The freedom riders had not yet begun their bus rides into the deep South, Martin Luther King had not made his "I" [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 11:25am EST

  • Happy Days are Here Again!

    I first voted in the 1968 presidential election. This will be the fourth one in which I voted for the winning candidate, but none were more satisfying nor gave me more hope for the future than did the victory of Barak Obama.That Obama carried Florida was the icing on the [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 8:18am EST

  • Clint Would Agree

    Jonah Goldberg: "Truth be told I am not trying to say anything too profound."Harry Callahan: "A man's got to know his limitations."' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 3:46pm EST

  • We Can Only Hope

    Jed Lewison at Daily Kos:Republicans may not realize it yet, but it's not just John McCain who is going down in this election. It's also guys like Matt Drudge and propaganda machines like FOX News. They may maintain their influence within the shrinking world of the conservative right wing, but [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 7:41am EST

  • I'm Still Holding My Breath

    FiveThirtyEight: "McCain's chances of victory are estimated at 1.9 percent, their lowest total of the year." [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 9:47pm EST

  • Crystal Balls

    The Huffington Post has a list of pundits' predictions.The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes thinks Obama will fall short, gathering only 252 electoral votes. No one else has Obama winning less than 311.James Carville is the only one on the list who believes the Democrats will hold 60 Senate seats after [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 7:08am EST

  • McCain on SNL

    James Fallows:. . . no candidate who thought he had a prayer of winning would have appeared on this show. [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 7:03am EST

  • Tired

    Spent today canvassing for Obama in a lower middle class neighborhood in Pompano Beach. Nobody home behind about half the doors we knocked on, but of those who responded, Obama was the voters' choice by a ration of about 16:1. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2008, 7:54pm EST

  • Where's Joe?

    Brian Schaffner is not surprised that the McCain's use of "Joe the Plumber" is not gaining traction:First, critiques of income redistribution and higher taxes for those in the top income brackets appear to mostly resonate with Republicans (who are already supporting McCain) and they have far less appeal for independents. [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2008, 9:45am EDT

  • Watch out for that Weakling

    James Wolcott:It's one of the richer ironies of this election season that the conservative bloggers disparage Obama as a phony lightweight, a glib opportunist, a suave vessel of empty eloquence, yet endow him with the sinister strength to bend America to his socialist will and fog men's minds. [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 1:39pm EDT

  • Yuk

    Shorter David Broder: It's not McCain's fault. [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 10:19am EDT

  • Eight Reasons for Hope

    I'll be worried until the final results are in, but the Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn makes a convincing case for an Obama victory. [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 10:13am EDT

  • Not Good

    Bob Norman discovers problems in the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office.Lesson: If you have registered, don't take anyone's word that you are not eligible to vote. [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 10:52pm EDT

  • Miami Being Miami

    John McCain came to Miami today to charge up his supporters: After the rally, we witnessed a near-street riot involving the exiting McCain crowd and two Cuban-American Obama supporters. Tony Garcia, 63, and Raul Sorando, 31, were suddenly surrounded by an angry mob. There is a moment in a crowd [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 10:42pm EDT

  • Finish the Game

    As a Florida Gator football fan for the past, oh, forty-five years, I know a little bit about false confidence. I remember the 2003 game against the Miami Hurricanes, where the Gators were up by 23 points at half-time, only to lose the game 38-33.So there are no safe leads, [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 8:08am EDT

  • Heart of the Matter

    Anyone who has read the comments on right-wing blogs can see the truth of the following analysis:Part of what has been wrong with the GOP is that its rank-and-file members take their political advice and insights from radio entertainers who seem to understand little about political reality and even less [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 8:04am EDT

  • Proof Positive

    Perhaps the most telling indication of an Obama victory:Simple rule: if you're a 72 year-old Presidential nominee, and MATLOCK ENDORSES THE OTHER GUY, it's time to pack it in.Commenter responding to a Volokh Conspiracy post on Ron Howard and Andy Griffith endorsing Barak Obama. [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2008, 7:51am EDT

  • If We Can't Get Him on the Issues . . .

    Taking the high road, Jonah Goldberg expresses his admiration for one of his reader's ideas:If the donations list is published we could always do a bunch of donations as William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright etc. and then publicize that Obama's taking donations from these indidividuals [sic].The only way to avoid the [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 5:10pm EDT

  • Jolly Old St. Nick

    The Onion could not have written a better parody of the right-wing desperation that's setting in about now: the National Review's Jim Geraghty touts the Nickelodeon Kids' Poll as a sign that things just might not be as bad as they seem for McCain. [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 11:04pm EDT

  • Endorsements

    Flablog has the count on Florida newspapers' presidential endorsements: 6 for Obama, one for McCain. [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 10:45pm EDT

  • Fair and Balanced

    I don't agree with Bob Norman very often, but in this case he is on the mark:You hear mainstream media sources constantly talking about how, yes, McCain/GOP has been negative, but so has Obama. Well, what they don't say is that Obama's campaign has been negative on important issues like [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 10:36pm EDT

  • Another Reason to Vote for Obama?

    In Florida, Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga has announced his plans to pack up his toys and go home if Obama wins the election, saying that he'll sell the team because of Obama's tax policies. After 15 years of plodding mediocrity under Huizenga (no Super Bowl wins, AFC Championships, or [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 10:31pm EDT

  • Excuses

    Ross Douthat:This is what a lot of conservatives are going to be telling themselves after election day: That Obama cheated, that the media cheated, that McCain wasn't a conservative anyway, and that the only reason Sarah Palin wasn't a hit with swing voters is that the press - with an [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 10:27am EDT

  • Squandered

    John Heilemann's article about the devaluation of the McCain brand in New York Magazine validates a thought I've had -- that the kindergarten sex-education ad was where the McCain campaign really jumped the shark. It was so obviously contrived and cynical that henceforth McCain would have a hard time getting the [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 4:42pm EDT

  • So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

    James Wolcott:Even as I wave a farewell hankie at my investment holdings as they sink into the briny deep, I draw spiritual comfort from seeing the McCain-McWinky campaign unceremoniously drown with them. McCain could still win, but the advance signs of rapid decay are everywhere in his campaign . . [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 3:43pm EDT

  • The Heart of the Matter

    James Fallows: If John McCain has a better set of plans to deal with the immediate crisis, and the medium-term real-economy fallout, and the real global problems of the era -- fine, let him win on those. But it is beneath the dignity he had as a Naval officer to [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 3:38pm EDT

  • Stay in Your Seat, Doggone It!

    The Palin campaign was taking no chances when the VP candidate spoke in Clearwater, Florida: Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 8:22am EDT

  • Off in Right Field

    Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein is upset with the AP for its biased reporting of Sarah Palin charge that Obama was palling around with terrorists. His evidence:Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of his association with a [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2008, 9:12pm EDT

  • Dumbfounded

    James Fallows takes David Broder to task for being an calling the VP a draw:Such an assessment can be true only if you have decided to assess debate performance on one factor alone, perky self-assurance, and to assign no weight whatsoever to such items as logic, responsiveness to questions, clarity [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2008, 8:41pm EDT

  • That Statement is No Longer Operative

    Remember during the VP debate when Sarah Palin spoke about how she got the Alaskan state government to divest any investments it might have in Sudan? Apparently it's not true. [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2008, 8:35pm EDT

  • Which Side Are You On, Boys?

    Apparently the unions are alive and well in West Virginia. The mine owners allowed the National Rifle Association to bring cameras onto mine property to try and capture miners attacking Obama's position on guns. In response, the miners staged a one-day work stoppage. Said one union member: ". . . a lot [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 11:21am EDT

  • Advice for Reporters

    A proposal to catch "Gotcha" journalism. [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2008, 9:06am EDT

  • The Wrong Storyline

    Alex Epstein looks at the McCain campaign and sees a problem in the script:The McCain people have never really nailed down what his story is. Partly I think they've been distracted by his personal story of being a prisoner for 5 years. It's a compelling personal story but they've never [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2008, 8:18am EDT

  • Insanity

    This just doesn't make any sense:Senate leaders have scheduled a vote for Wednesday on the $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan rejected by the House. Majority Leader Harry Reid and GOP Leader Mitch McConnell say, however, that they're going to add a tax cut package already rejected by the House on [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2008, 10:29am EDT

  • A Swing and a Miss

    I would suspect that just about any high school senior running for student body president could handle him or herself in an interview better than Sarah Palin:COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 11:03pm EDT

  • Exception for Contraception

    The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Jeffrey R. Lewis sees the signs that the Bush administration is preparing for another war -- this time against contraception:The administration has proposed a new set of regulations that it says will protect doctors, nurses and health care workers who object to abortion from having to [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 7:31am EDT

  • Excuse Me for Thinking

    This is the attitude that creates a constituency for George W. Bush and Sarah Palin. James Lileks:My interest in these machines [steam engines] is mostly aesthetic, to sound all academic and/or high-falutin’ – it’s fascinating to learn how they work, but I’m drawn to the way they look and why, [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2008, 5:53am EDT

  • Laugh of the Day

    Always good to end the work week with a smile on your face. Peter Robinson in Forbes Magazine:How is the outsider doing? Throughout the campaign, Sarah Palin has remained poised and articulate. As far as I am aware, she has committed not a single gaffe. Speaking with Charles Gibson of ABC [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 6:25pm EDT

  • Killer Katie

    Having seen the Couric-Palin interview(s), I was a bit surprised at how well Couric handled the questioning. James Fallows saw the same thing:Couric deserves better ratings for the CBS news based on the steely relentlessness of her questions. Unlike Charlie Gibson, and unlike Joe Biden in a (possible!) future debate, she [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 1:38pm EDT

  • Tell Me More . . .

    Sadly No! traces the disillusion of Palin cheerleader Kathleen Parker. [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 11:34am EDT

  • Sarah Palin

    Yikes! And Yikes! again. In the words of Tim Calhoun, "I have little experience in a courtroom, but I did once work in a food court." [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 8:17am EDT

  • Has McCain Jumped the Shark?

    James Fallows:Now, maybe I am misjudging my fellow citizens. Maybe most people will say: Yes, it's perfectly understandable that John McCain, having traveled constantly for years on the campaign trail, suddenly can't make it down to Mississippi on Friday. We respect him all the more! But I don't think this [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2008, 8:24am EDT

  • Debate or not Debate

    Backing out of the debate a little over 48 hours before it's scheduled to begin? Another example of McCain's impulsive instincts. Moreover, he has time for a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative, but not to communicate with the American people? No, McCain's afraid of getting clobbered while his poll [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 11:23pm EDT

  • Military Values

    "[O]ne could make a fairly solid historical case for the assertion that the first real commander of the 7th Cavalry, Major General George Armstrong Custer, was one of the last real "warriors" in the United States Army."Robert Bateman, an officer in the 7th Cavalry, on why we should stop using [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 11:54am EDT
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