A plain blog about politics

Happy Birthday to Orlando Cepeda , 76 We do need some good stuff, don't we: 1. Dan Drezner on credibility . I don't keep up on w...

I suppose this isn't a tough one, isn't it? Whichever you want -- I'll just mention the VRA decision to kick it off, as one that...

Happy Birthday to Faye Dunaway , 72. As it happens, I just watched both "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Chinatown" again in the ...

Happy Birthday to Brett Reed , 40. One of my big life mistakes: I didn't go down to Gilman Street when I had the chance. I did, however,...

Happy Birthday to Jeff Kent, 44. I guess I'm duty-bound to root for him for the HOF. Okay. The good stuff: 1. David S. Bernstein has...

At PostPartisan today, I'm fighting the good fight on behalf of automatic countercyclical stabilizers for state and local government sp...

I know I'm asking a lot of Perry/Romney questions these days, but, well, it does seem like the thing to do. So... Do you think that as...

I've been talking about a new Republican strategy this week, the "Paul Revere" strategy, named after Sarah Palin's recent ...

Via Julian Sanchez (and by the way I highly recommend following him on twitter), a nice discussion and a Tumblr  of images of pregnant wome...

Excellent posts today by Steve Benen and Matt Yglesias , pointing out that Republican Senators coming out against stripping Planned Parenth...

1. Gun control.  Once upon a time, any murderous gun rampage was a "Start your engines" signal to liberals to campaign for new gun...

Warning: this post is really just a juvenile excuse for passing on some political trivia, which I'll save to the last paragraph. Liber...

I have no idea what's going to happen on abortion in the Senate, or (assuming something gets through the Senate) in conference. It seem...