Mickey Kaus
Mickey Kaus
Robert Michael "Mickey" Kausis an American journalist, pundit, and author, known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog which was featured on Slate until 2010. Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly, among other publications...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 July 1951
CountryUnited States of America
party skins lines
Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
boxers doctrine beef
I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.
want stigma has-beens
Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?
running government unions
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?
immigration
I'm not anti-immigration.
people lasts resorts
People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.
writing thinking development
One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.