- AP, Analysis: McCain hampered by campaign missteps. Yes, AP. Sue me.
- Carpetbagger Report, With McCain, it’s about more than a simple change of heart
- Crooks & Liars, Top McCain Adviser: Another terror attack would give McCain “big advantage”
- HuffPo, Impossible: Finding An Expert Who Says McCain's Energy Plan Provides Short-Term Relief
- Here's the sort of shocking flip-flop on a basic issue of principle for which I can imagine no justification other than naked ambition: McCain in 2005: Gitmo Detainees Deserve Trials Or Should Be Released. Now, of course, McCain claims that a Supreme Court decision giving minimal habeas rights is one of the worst decisions in the the Court's history….
- Nitpicker Blog, McCain Lying about oil spills
- Crooks & Liars, A novel defense for McCain’s policy reversals
- Politico.com, John McCain doesn't work weekends
Recent Bluessky Posts- I always imagined this sort of approval number was about his irredeemable floor. Maybe not? Can the approval number go lower? How low? March 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Crane-Brinton tells us that "revolutions occur in times of rising expectations" (1938!). en.wikipediaorg/wiki/The_Ana... Given expectations are cratering, doers that mean this is not a revolutionary moment? Presumably MAGA, lots of which is fueled by status anxiety if not worse, wasn't one also? March 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Health: Maya Manian, Public Health Law, Social Movements, and the Feminist Remaking of AIDS, JOTWELL (March 30, 2026) (reviewing Aziza Ahmed, Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS (2025)), health.jotwell.com/public-healt.... March 30, 2026 Jotwell
- 8 million No Kings protestors would be about 2.3% of the US population which although *very* large is still some way from the symbolic 3.5% mark. March 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Attention @eff.org @epic.org did these guys do the required privacy act fillings? That said, there's a reason privacy scholars used to call cell phones "Pocket Stasi" before it felt like showing your age. March 29, 2026 Michael Froomkin
And from the equal time department, comes this column from the Washington Post:
The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama
By Charles Krauthammer
— Bret
By the ever-wrong Charles Krauthammer
& don’t forget a little bashing for McLame’s beautiful wife Cindy, or rather, Madam “oxycontin chic”
“To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.”
— Obama spokesman Bill Burton, Oct. 24, 2007
Both of these bozos will change their views on issues if they think it means more votes in November.