This is an annual feature of the Althouse blog. I go though the whole year of posts and pick out the quotes that I like best. "I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't want to see us fall backwards, y…
Check it out. Balkin is the Yale lawprof who blogs at Balkinization . They've titled this one "Qualifications and Disqualifications." We recorded this one on December 11th, so the first segment doesn't go as de…
Harvard econ-prof Greg Mankiw offers prez-elect Obama 4 items of advice on economics. 1. "Listen to your economists... They will often give you advice quite different from what you will hear from congressional leaders Nancy…
There's this . And Rush, on the radio, is saying that Clinton is "dropping neutron bombs all over the place" on Obama. ADDED: Getty Images picture on the front page of the WaPo -- with the caption: "Sen. John …
About that blogger who got Bill Clinton to call Todd Purdum a "scumbag"... and 2,500 other blogger-reporters boosted by Huffington Post. Mayhill Fowler says she never planned to ask Bill Clinton the question that unleas…
Says Dick Morris. I thought this was going to be about the way Michelle Obama doesn't want another woman in the picture, but Morris's problem is with Bill Clinton. Bill will be the unexpected roommate. Even if a Preside…
Uh oh. It's the big Vanity Fair article on Bill Clinton . [H]e spends his time veering between feeling sorry for himself and working to help others, between doing good and giving his enemies fresh ammunition, between vindicat…
The fervid brain of Bill Clinton knows what those other people are thinking: "It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out." Just frantic. Indeed. Is B…
"So cool." You never see Hillary Clinton or John McCain or any other presidential candidate wearing sunglasses. Or.... wait... did Bill Clinton wear sunglasses when he played the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show? Di…
This piece, by Amanda Fortini, is all about the malignant misogyny against Hillary Clinton: The egregious and by now familiar potshots are too numerous (and tiresome) to recount.... Why doesn’t our culture take sexism seriously?…
"He needs her to win because if she doesn’t become president, he goes down as a minor president. If she wins, it’s the Adamses and the Roosevelts and the Clintons." A former Clinton adviser said to Maureen Dowd. Hey, it…
Goodbye to one of the all-time great movie stars, Charlton Heston, who has died at the age of 83. When I read "remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo," I wondered…
What do we think of all the money Bill Clinton has made giving speeches in his post-presidential life? It makes up more than half of the $109 million the Clintons have earned in the past 7 years.
"A rising black politician in the Democratic party is a threat to them and their power over blacks. So they are doing what they can to crush him, and punish any Democrat who associates with him." That's from Andrew …
It's an interesting fight -- about whether DailyKos is so vile that the Democratic candidates should not appear at the YearlyKos convention. Both men do their thing -- reasonably adequately. O'Reilly tries to create an e…
Which is, you know, an old blogosphere flame war , but I see there's a transcription going around -- of this notorious segment of the diavlog -- that has a glaring error that is being used against me. I'm not going to l…
So Rudy Giuliani says to Barbara Walters: Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani told ABC News's Barbara Walters that he would welcome his wife, Judith, at White House Cabinet meetings and other policy discussions if he we…