“Ezra Klein” on The Daily Caller

Palin nomination brought out the little community organizers in scores of lefty journos — Charlie Crist is a momma’s boy — University attempts ‘thought reform’ on Christian student — Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich: A match made in the bowels of National Lampoon? — DOJ witness can’t testify in NBPP case — Cop Update: Many Federal police still do not understand the Bill of Rights (more)

Adam Doster
Sept 8, 2008, 2:18pm (more)

The Daily Caller revealed that Luke Mitchell, then an editor at Harper’s, suggested members of Journolist coordinate a progressive weekly message to help President Obama win the election, even though that “sounds loathsome.” (more)

Sarah Palin’s speech to the 2008 Republican convention impressed more than a few doubters, including even some members of Journolist, an online community for liberal journalists. (more)

In 2007, when Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein founded Journolist, an online gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists, he imagined a discussion group that would connect young writers to top sources. (more)

As The Daily Caller’s coverage of the now-defunct liberal listserv Journolist’s 2008 Obamamania campaign grew more intriguing each day this week, a slew of emails hit my inbox asking variations of this: “So, when do you think the P-bomb’s going to drop?” (more)

Blogosphere, please join me in celebrating the birth of Cabalist, the wittily-named successor to Ezra Klein’s infamous Journolist, the listserv of liberal bloggers, pundits and academics that inadvertently brought down (very temporarily) the ex-Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, and which is now the subject of an endless and embarrassing (for certain former Journolist participants) investigation by The Daily Caller, which has discovered e-mail chains suggesting that certain Journolist members were secretly devising partisan campaigns to advance Democratic Party interests. (more)

Nov. 3: (more)

Some impressive commentators are weighing in about whether promotion of small government versus big government is ideologically or practically driven.  Ezra Klein makes an interesting, but misdirected, point that small government proponents see small government as an end in itself — i.e., they are ideologically driven — whereas proponents of more government simply want “larger government in certain areas where it seems to make sense.” (more)

In the first (and still best) “Austin Powers” film, a United Nations representative makes a faux pas and calls the film’s villain “Mr. Evil.” (more)

Liberal Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has disbanded the “Journolist,” an e-mail list-serv catering to liberal journalists, professors and think tank experts, after e-mails from one of its prominent members were made public yesterday. (more)

After weeks of speculation and a game-changing Gulf Coast oil spill, Sens. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, and Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut Independent, plan to unveil their climate and energy legislation on Wednesday. Its political fate, meanwhile, remains inextricably linked to a question that few besides Kerry, Lieberman, and their erstwhile GOP co-sponsor, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, can answer: What’s actually in the bill? (more)

The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence – through a combination of accident and design – into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times. (more)

The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence – a combination of accident and design – into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times. (more)

Ezra Klein asks at the Washington Post if the national ID aspect of the Democrats’ proposed immigration law is a “game changer”: (more)

Jon Ward linked to this Ezra Klein interview with Sen. Bob Corker in his piece yesterday, but there’s one exchange in particular that I think is worth highlighting, because it perfectly sums up a core problem with regulation in general (bolded is Klein, regular is Corker): (more)

After two days of angry partisan arguments in Washington over the issue of financial regulation reform, a Republican senator from Tennessee summed up the state of play. (more)

Whatever he’s on (Quaaludes? Klonopin?) Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein sure is skippy about everything. In a graph-heavy post detailing why Republicans shouldn’t even bother running for anything in 2010 because Barack Obama is King of Charts, Klein writes, “the GOP needs the recovery to be too slow and halting to really touch people.” Which will be problematic, seeing as the difficulties facing normal Americans are as of this moment, illusory: (more)

Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging the recently passed health-care bill limits the agency’s options for enforcing the individual mandate, Shulman told reporters that the most likely way to penalize individuals that don’t comply is by reducing or confiscating their tax refunds. (more)