reckoner's blog

To all moms.

"Scour Romney’s record for a single example of real political courage -- a single, solitary instance, however small, where Romney placed principle or substance above his own short- term political interests. Let me know if you find one ... His campaign h

"According to a peer-reviewed paper Hansen has submitted to a leading scientific journal and made available to Time.com prior to publication, scientists can now state “with a high degree of confidence” that some extremely high temperatures are in fact c

"Preparing for the apocalypse is no longer a boutique business. Costco is now selling 9-month emergency survival supplies on the same catalogue page as shotguns and security systems. It's capitalism, I suppose: if enough of your customers go cra

"The Netanyahu government has decided to revive a policy - abandoned in 2005 - of razing the homes of Palestinians convicted of terrorism. In this case, the perpetrators were barbaric - killing three children and their parents in their sleep by cutting

"It reveals that the anti-marriage equality peeps are not simply anti-marriage. They are against any civil recognition of gay couples' commitment, responsibility and equality. The Amendment today would ban any relationship rights whatever to gay couples

"Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has created or reconfigured at least 263 organizations to tackle some aspect of the war on terror. Thirty-three new building complexes have been built for the intelligence bureaucracies alone, occupying 17

went up under Bush. Here's the data

"Jon Cohn makes an obvious point: the current dysfunctional and stratospherically inefficient US healthcare system impedes economic freedom. It does so because people stay in jobs they may not be suited for, because they fear losing health insurance. Sm

"The DEA has about 11,000 employees and a budget of about $2.5 billion dollars. Members of Congress looking for fat to trim from federal expenditures ought to be taking a close look at the agency. Its value-to-damage ratio is likely the worst in our ent

"Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or crimin

Anyone claiming that the warming trend isn't a result of CO2 needs to given an alternative explanation that makes a stronger case than this graph. So far, no one can.