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MTSU Survey Documents Entrenching Of Falsehoods

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media


Over at the Atlantic, Marc Ambinder digs into a recent survey conducted by Middle Tennessee State University, which demonstrates the extent to which "...

My Brother Loves Glenn Beck, But I Still Love My Brother

Suz Redfearn | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics


Suz Redfearn

My brother rolled into D.C. from Boston on a chartered bus, arriving in the dark outside a Marriott. I scanned the pack of fairly nondescript folks ...

Repeat After Me: 'The Czars Are Ruining America!'

Michael Wolff | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


Michael Wolff

the Democrats are always scrambling against a rhetoric that they can't parry and don't ever seem to have anticipated. Now it's the czars.

Cloture Passes On Cass Sunstein, 63-35

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...

Cass Sunstein Attacks Frustrate Conservative Fans

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


...The campaign against Sunstein has largely written itself. One of the most regularly cited legal scholars, the author, co-author, or editor of dozen...

Jason Linkins

Everything You Need To Know About Czars

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


Driving today's fearful discussion about czars this morning is a Politico article that 's a fine example of what it does best: provide a distillation of political scuttlebutt and press releases into a story.

Glenn Beck's Next Target: Cass Sunstein

washingtonindependent.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


As he makes a real impact in pushing conservative fringe attacks on Obama administration officials into the mainstream, Glenn Beck's Twitter feed has ...

Blanche Lincoln Town Hall Overrun By Conspiracy Theorists

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday--and the number of people who believe that the President has larded ...

Pennsylvania Avenue Pairs: Obamas Not The Only White House Couple (PHOTOS)

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 09.11.2009 | Style


WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has more than one way of bringing people together: Just ask Cass and Samantha. Or Anita and Bob. Or Tommy and Katie. ...

Putting a Hold on Compassion

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


Michael Markarian

Politicians should consider a compassionate concern for animals to be a personal and even political asset for candidates for major executive offices.

Cass Sunstein Nomination Blocked By Saxby Chambliss

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has blocked Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein from heading the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs because of ...

Obama's Regulation Czar Nominee Sunstein Faces Scrutiny

Los Angeles Times | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein, a widely admired intellectual and friend of President Obama, has spent years delving into the obscure i...

Sunstein's Past Record Of Lax Regulation

Think Progress | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


How would progressives respond if President Bush nominated as "regulatory czar" a person who: - Once called for changing the Clean Air Act to require...

Obama Picks Renowned Chicago Legal Scholar As Chief Regulator

Chicago Tribune | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


Cass Sunstein, a longtime University of Chicago legal scholar and prominent author, is set to take up a key cause in the Barack Obama administration: ...

Obama's White House Domestic Policy Adviser: Cass Sunstein?

ABA Journal | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics


***Check Back For Updates*** ***10/27*** At the Politico, Ben Smith has Cass Sunstein defending Obama's 2001 remarks about a "redistributive change...

Obama's Cabinet: The Lawyers He May Appoint

ABA Journal | Terry Carter and Stephanie Francis Ward | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago


It's the guessing game that has Washington, D.C., buzzing: Which lawyers will be appointed to senior government positions by the next president? Shou...

Too Clever by Half?

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics


Robert Kuttner

So what is the connection between Barack Obama's core beliefs, his campaign advisers, and his rather lackluster performance since Denver?

The Greatest Thing I Have Seen At This Convention

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media


What a great thing to see! Walking out of my first trip to the convention floor (exciting!) across a sunny pavilion, I see two people in bright blue O...

Where Are the Economists?

Simon Jenkins | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business


Simon Jenkins

Economics has long been oversold as a science, when it is rather a branch of psychology, a study of the peculiarities of human nature, thus converting micro-economics into macro has always been a dangerous game.