It takes a deficit

Deficit Hawks Ignore the R-Word - Washington Post

The market is not enough

Toilets and Cellphones - The New York Times

Gulf Oil Spill Offers A Lesson in Capitalism vs. Socialism - Washington Post

Pro-corporate populism? It's only a contradiction if you think about it

The Old Enemies - The New York Times

The Gambler

Review of 'The Promise: President Obama, Year One' by Jonathan Alter - Washington Post

Breaking news: sleepy media stops hitting snooze button

Going to Extreme - The New York Times

More moronic misdirection

We're Not Greece - The New York Times

Well worth the irritation

Bailout: Best Program Evaaah? - TPMMuckraker

A people without rules

Now an angry group of Americans wants to be freer still—free from government agencies that protect their health, wealth, and well-being; free from problems and policies too difficult to understand; free from parties and coalitions; free from experts who think they know better than they do; free from politicians who don’t talk or look like they do (and Barack Obama certainly doesn’t). They want to say what they have to say without fear of contradiction, and then hear someone on television tell them they’re right. They don’t want the rule of the people, though that’s what they say. They want to be people without rules—and, who knows, they may succeed. This is America, where wishes come true. And where no one remembers the adage “Beware what you wish for.”

The Tea Party Jacobins - The New York Review of Books

Did you hear the one about the guy who hated government?

Can We Reverse the Tide on Government Distrust? - Washington Post

As their fortunes diverge, blue and red families drift further apart

Do 'Family Values' Weaken Families? - National Journal

Suddenly government doesn't look so bad

Through Oil-Fouled Water, Big Government Looks Better and Better - Washington Post

Their bitter pill

The Mad Tea Party - The Nation

The cross is not a meaningless piece of geometry

Cross in the Desert - The New York Times