Well, Rand Paul didn't use the filibuster to demand that Obama stop killing people in Pakistan or Yemen. He used the filibuster to protest the president's right to kill Americans on American soil....

I think the GOP is a long ways away from "imploding." They control the House. They have more than 40 votes in the Senate. They got 47 percent of the vote in the last presidential election. In short,...

RIP, jmj. You will really be missed.

New Orleans must be more corrupt than Chicago. They don't even bother indicting their criminals.

If Blue Train is right and we can't confiscate dangerous assault rifles without a second civil war, then we're finished as a country.

Let's be clear about this: there is a large segment of the...

This is the sort of lazy analysis that can only come from someone who has another agenda or who doesn't know much about African politics. Find me all the leaders in Africa (especially Central Africa)...

Yes, seriously. Any analysis of the Congo that seeks to place a majority of blame on one country is foolish. If you want to get Rwanda to stop backing proxy rebel groups, then you have to get a...

Wow, that's seriously hyperbolic. Calling Rice a supporter of genocide is absurd. Yes, she did not want the U.S. to get involved in Rwanda in 1994, and in that respect she was like every other major...

The point, obviously, is not that taxes decide economic growth all by themselves. The point is that they are one factor, and that in an environment where economic growth is especially sluggish and...

It's not about a pattern, it's about the logic behind Keynesian theory. Do you think that cutting government spending helps to stimulate the economy? Do you think that raising taxes helps to...

You are just reusing old talking points. My position has nothing to do with Republican messaging. My position has to do with my study of history, in particular the history of the Great Depression,...

There is no logic in this post, none. Just a bunch of recycled talking points that have nothing to do with the issue. If you think raising taxes has NO effect on the economy, if you think cutting...

If Washington had ended the Bush tax cuts and cut spending a year or two years ago it would have been very bad for the recovery. Check out how Britain has been doing since trying to implement...

Exactly.

Okay, I predict that in Obama's second term you will not see the deployment of U.S. ground forces anywhere in the Middle East, aside from the places where they already are.

I would take a bet that the U.S. does not make war with Iran at any point during Obama's second term. I am sure there are people within the government and military establishments who want such a war,...

I think the progressive revolt against Obama is overstated. On domestic policy Obama is a garden-variety Democrat/liberal, and he's passed a lot of legislation that Democrats/liberals favor. For that...

And that model will prove unsustainable at some point as well. I think the change in social media has been very good in some ways, not so good in others. Generally I don't think the discussion on FB...

Scott, I'm going to stop interacting with you now because I find this new persona, in which you slavishly echo every single thing Glenn Greenwald has written in the last 4 years, incredibly...

To be clear I didn't like it because it kind of went on too long. And he just asserts that he will end the wars and cut spending as if his inherent awesomeness is proof of his intentions. I think if...

I've heard your reasons before, and you've heard mine. There is no need to do this again.

I'm not circling the wagons for Obama. What I am doing is rejecting your formulation of Bush=Obama=Romney.

I thought it was pretty dreadful.

Okay, but in his eyes that almost certainly would not be good enough. This was something I learned when traveling overseas during the Bush years. Nobody gives a fuck what your politics are. You're...

I guess I'm trying to figure out what your point is in all this. Are you a pacifist? Is your point that all violence against civilians is always wrong? I'm trying to figure out what your philosophy...