Uneasy Rhetoric

It’s not much of a secret that I opposed Proposition 8, and of course, I applauded the judge’s decision today to overturn it. But, I have to hand it to proponents of the measure. Their strategy may have been less about the law and more about a well thought-out public relations strategy. They had to [...]

Paul Waldman has a scathing article in the American Prospect on just what we will be missing in the absence of a GWBush administration. In amongst diamonds like “the rotating cast of butchers” and the “Bush Doctrine of preemptive war” is this little gem: Goodbye to the accusation that if you disagree with what the [...]

Now this is spin: in a Reuters article titled “Rare Flash of Anger from Obama on Halloween Night,” I found this quote: The fact that Obama took time out for Halloween showed a candidate feeling confident about his chances on Tuesday, with polls showing him leading Republican nominee John McCain. Did the writer stop to [...]

A cool breeze and temperatures down into the frigid mid-80s have probably made last week’s heat wave a distant memory for many. But according an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, we can expect a lot more heat waves in the near (not in the far, oh so distant) future. According to the article, by [...]

If you’re a policy wonk like me, you’re constantly on the lookout for juicy studies, briefs, and toilet paper. A couple of people at UC Berkeley have taken it upon themselves to compile “a quick and easy update on what’s new in California public policy research.” The California Policy Inbox aggregates research from several dozen [...]