A plain blog about politics

There's a new judge on the DC Circuit, the first one nominated by Barack Obama. That's going to matter. I'll add that the develo...

(Sorry, behind again, that kind of week...) Nixon issues a statement :

Paul Waldman has a nice post today about GOP "rebranding." He's quite right: ideological shifts, real or perceived, do far le...

Jonathan Chait considers John McCain's career , on the occasion of McCain's recent Tea Party bashing and immigration bipartisanship,...

Happy Birthday to Greg Briley , 48. One of my Blue Sox heroes, long ago. Sometimes, that 24 year old season is the peak. Sorry for the slo...

Sri Srinivasan was confirmed unanimously this afternoon, 97-0,  for a position on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. He was originally nominat...

A wonderful example of the myopia of the deficit scolds... The background is that Michael Kinsley wrote a particularly bad column last we...