A plain blog about politics

Happy Birthday to Richard Hell , 64. Still shut down, but we still need good stuff, don't we? 1. Interesting: Brad DeLong rapidly lo...

Happy Birthday to Buck Showalter , 56. A little good stuff: 1. Nathaniel Beck on youth unemployment and the NYT op-ed page . At the Monk...

As usual, start with Europe. Surprisingly, the Russian elections. The Monkey Cage has quite a bit on this, for those interested. Syria, Eg...