Eric Holder should probably just shut up and go along with the president’s political agenda. You know, like Alberto Gonzales always did.
According to Baseball Prospectus, Jacoby Ellsbury is second in the majors in baserunning, with his speed accounting for 4.2 extra runs over the course of the season so far. That’s about three home runs’ worth of extra offense.
The best way to analyze Sarah Palin’s political career is as a series of picked fights. Josh Marshall touched on this aspect of her personality briefly in a post last night, but I think it deserves a more in-depth examination. Palin seems to be fueled by a desire to create enemies and maintain feuds with [...]
It doesn’t take long these days before a player having a career year starts hearing accusations of steroid usage. First of all, baseball is a game largely determined by luck. Second of all, unless your name is Madoff, any endeavor with small sample sizes will show some natural variance in your performance.
But we really need [...]
I don’t remember James Inhofe or Rush Limbaugh being so concerned that Roberts or Alito would let their whiteness or maleness unduly influence their judicial opinions. I think that assuming the “white” point of view is the default or “normal” position is much more prevalent in our society than we care to admit. Many pundits [...]
Obama’s budget marks a return to accounting sanity. The Bush administration’s accounting of their budgeting process made liberal use of sleight of hand to obscure the true cost of their proposals. The Bush tax cuts were set to sunset in 2010, which allowed their accountants to limit their projected revenue impact, even though they always [...]
This is a bit less interesting. Since Democrats tend to do very well in the biggest cities, large Democratic margins tend to correlate directly with large populations. New York City suffers here as it is split up into five counties. The top Obama margins are: Los Angeles, Cook (Chicago + suburbs), Philadelphia, Wayne (Detroit), [...]
Here are the 10 counties John McCain won by the widest margins. Food for thought. Democrats have a lot of work to do in the Texas suburbs if they want to be competitive statewide.
County
State
McCain Margin
Notable Features
Maricopa
AZ
132,821
Phoenix
Utah
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I was planning on writing an omnibus mega-post on the Obama budget, but instead I think I’ll parcel it out over several posts. There’s a lot of ground to cover and I don’t want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Through the transition and stimulus fight, the one concern I had about [...]
Calling something a “teachable moment” in a debate is incredibly condescending.