What Is At Stake In The Debate

Financial Regulation Is The Next Item On The Political Horizon, And It Doesn't Have To Be The Deathly Dull Wonk-battle That It Sounds Like. In Fact, If The Democrats Do Their Job, It Can Just As Easily Become A Platform For Addressing The Greatest Issues Of Them All.

Republicans Run The Machine When It's Their Turn, And Then Hand The Wheel Over To Democrats When The Public Has Had Enough.

Surrogate Motherhood Has Been The Subject Of Much Philosophical And Political Dispute Over The Years.

Maybe That First, Gigantic Deficit The Reaganites Piled Up Was An Accident, Just A Combination Of Deluded 'supply Side' Tax Cuts And A Huge Bag Of Good Stuff For The Pentagon. But Pretty Quickly Conservatives Discovered That Deficits, When Done Correctly, Did Something Really Cool: Deficits Defunded The Left.

I Was In A Bad Mood When I Wrote That.