This is what I call "sidestepping the question":Myth: It is unethical to charge a poor person 100 times the interest rate a rich person would pay. Reality: We live in a free market society, if the working poor are willing to pay 100 times the...
Month: November 2007
Whenever I teach the American Civil War, I always end the last lecture on the conflict by reading a passage from Walt Whitman's funeral hymn for Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs.
Following up on the fine post of his colleague, Bob Herbert tees off (implicitly) on David Brooks's attempts to whitewash Reagan's awful record on civil rights and use of rhetorical.
It's appropriate that Al MacInnis is being inducted into the Hall of Fame on the same day as Mark Messier; as a contemporary of Ray Bourque and Chris Chelios, he was always destined to be overshadowed. But he's always been a personal favorite, not just...
The current insanity of life sentences should be familiar to everyone. Three strikes laws have stranded thousands of low level offenders in prison for life.Back in the day, “life” in.
Matt provides some useful quotes taking on Paul Berman's attempt to claim that he was contemporaneously against the Iraq War. Perhaps even more instructive is this one from another post.
The Ohio state legislature is considering a law mandating that sex offenders use green license plates on their cars: "It won't prevent every crime," said Democratic state Rep. Mike DeBose, who co-sponsored the bill with Republican state Sen. Kevin Coughlin. "It's just a tool in...
Christian at Defense Tech has a nice rundown on the "grounded Eagles" problem; if you hadn't heard, the USAF grounded its entire fleet of F-15s after a plane broke up.
Matt says he's reading this book defending Eisenhower's record on race. I haven't read it, so maybe it makes the case. But I would be skeptical on several fronts that.
Billionaires for Bush mounts a search for the mythical family farmer affected by the estate tax. If you can find one -- and a pony -- you'll get a free gift bag, so you lucky duckies should hop to it.I'm also glad that they reminded...
Alaska court throws out law requiring parental consent -- not notification, which is useless enough, but consent -- to obtain an abortion. [Via Ann.]
Since when did wingnuts begin ripping-off Belle Waring's famous pony-asking thing? Here. Have a look-see:It's difficult to tell what Newsbusters wants from CBS. Impartiality? The same attack on Clinton that.