In the past year, Google also faced criticism on Capitol Hill for its business arrangements with China that allow Internet censorship, and for not shutting off access to pornography. Google executives argued that much of the criticism was unfair, but sometimes the company had to struggle to get its message heard in Washington. Emphasis, mine. It’s only and ever about the money. Actually, I would amend that. The capitol is

While Glenn Greenwald completes the dexterization of KP, Sully comes closer to completing his own Greenwaldization: Sullivan Self-Parody Alert [Ramesh Ponnuru] In recent days, Andrew Sullivan has accused another commentator of being “adept at putting words in other people’s mouths”; advised a third commentator to “leave aside personal insults”; and quoted a reviewer calling Sullivan a ”card-carrying intellectual.” I think we’ve gotten the better of the trade. If you’d like

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition.” – Barack Obama, Knox College Commencement address, 2005 It must suck to be Hillary Clinton these days. Victory is in your grasp, so close you can almost taste it: you can be the first woman President in history. After years of clawing your way to the top of the political dung heap, shaking sweaty hands, eating

Maybe he’s even talked about a few.  I don’t know.  But how do you mishandle a campaign so badly that this becomes a problem for you? In the Tennessean today, questions about Ford’s presence at a Playboy party at the 2005 Superbowl continue to linger, in part because the Ford campaign has done a truly miserable job of dealing with the issue. Can someone fill me in?  If you were

More ads from the secret archives of the DNC.

****IMPROVED!  Now with Added Troll Action**** ROCK THE VOTE! Nice overview on the subject at Opinion Journal.  Courts slapping down laws that require voters to produce identification because it imposes an “undue hardship,” whereas People in the good state of Missouri need photo identification to cash a check, board a plane or apply for food stamps. But the state Supreme Court has ruled that a photo ID requirement to vote

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Remember how fun it was to move into a new place, with new financial obligations?  And remember how you had someone handling that certain legal thing on a pro bono basis up to a point?  And how that point was reached just at the time that the pro bono part had reached the time when it was pro bono no more? Remember the good old days when you didn’t have

Greetings from Brazil! I know my fellow right-leaning civil libertarian Jeff Goldstein is not a fan of Prof. Ann Althouse, so I am taking the opportunity here to fulminate against her scurrilous screed claiming that my rococo writing style turns out “endless massive blocks of overlong, tedious, unedited sentences,” which is clearly the unfiltered ramblings of a right-wing harpie who cannot appreciate the complexity of structure that allows for the

See this for a fine example.