My split-personality Twitter experiment has failed
When I first signed up for Twitter, I created one account for playing around with the service and communicating with friends (@bmk – created 2008-01-10) and a second account for communicating with my colleagues at work (@bkanowsky – created 2008-07-21)….
Does Democratic victory in PA-12 have implications for Indiana?
Last night, Democrat Mark Critz won the special election to fill Jack Murtha’s old seat in Pennsylvania’s 12th district. This race in a swing district (Voted Kerry in ‘04, McCain in ‘08) was hyped by Fox News and many Democratic…
Ezra Klein on CBO’s updated “spending” for Affordable Care Act
Much ado about no new spending. Clipped from voices.washingtonpost.com Megan McArdle has a post up saying that health-care reform is “already at least a hundred billion dollars in the hole.” That’s really not right, though it’s certainly true that the…
Mitch Daniels: lying then, or lying now?
Was Mitch Daniels lying about the performance of IBM’s welfare privatization then, or is he lying in his lawsuit now?
State Sen Mike Delph suggests AZ-like immigration law
In a rambling “Guest Commentary” for the Times of Northwest Indiana, State Senator Mike Delph (R-Carmel) argues for an Arizona-like racial profiling immigration enforcement law in Indiana: Until we have an administration and a Congress willing to take control of…
This is Dan Burton’s campaign on drugs
Just after Dan Burton’s campaign decided to run an ad featuring Ohioan actors posing as real Hoosiers, his campaign got a little more help from out of state. The Iowa-based American Future Fund – who has made a lot of…
Glenn Greenwald: defending their beliefs is the “last thing” Dems want to do
I honestly don’t know enough about Elena Kagan to form a real opinion about her nomination. Of the probable nominees, I don’t think he could have done better than Diane Wood. Greenwald has been a vocal critic of Elena Kagan,…
Mark Lilla’s “Tea Party Jacobins” and the elision of Watergate
Lots of people have flagged Mark Lilla’s piece in the New York Review of Books, and with good reason. Lilla does an excellent job of looking at the big picture and long term trends, putting together pieces and a coherent…
Even Fox News rejects Mike Pence’s claims on Gulf oil spill
Hoosier Congressman Mike Pence took to the floor of the House of Representatives to demand an investigation into what happened on April 20, 2010. But he’s not interested in what caused the Deep Horizon oil rig to explode – he…
