Speaking of protest marches, NPR has a good little piece on the Bonus Army, which occupied Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932. These protestors had a very concrete goal--the payment of their promised pensions when they really needed it. Which was right then, the...
Month: November 2011
I understand horse-race reporters need something to talk about and there does seem to be a surge in the polls, but to say that it's now a Romney/Gingrich race is.
So I saw this political ad yesterday while eating my morning bagel: This is produced by Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, connecting Elizabeth Warren to the "extreme left protests" and "violence".
Like Yglesias, I pretty much believe that being evicted from Zuccotti Park is about the best thing that could happen to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Let's face it, they had not succeeded in the last couple of weeks in retaining the media's attention. The...
Upwards of 10 new alleged Sandusky victims have emerged. The judge who inexplicably let an alleged violent criminal facing more than 200 years go on $100,000 in unsecured bail worked.
See Cohen, Beyerstein, Dell'Antonia, and Marcotte.
I, for one, will always confuse the year the owner's lockout prevented me from watching any NBA games with all the years in which I voluntarily didn't watch any NBA games. On the upside, my utter lack of interest in the NBA means that I...
As Paul mentioned, as expected the Supreme Court will be hearing the case. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that the Court will be having a longer-than-usual argument about the.
The great James McMurtry offers his song "We Can't Make It Here" as a free download in support of the Occupy movement. Says McMurtry: We quit playing "We Can't Make.
Pretty good Times piece on the rapidly growing Latino populations in the Great Plains. Of course, a lot of the local whites are outraged. On the other hand, their towns are literally dying. Latinos are bringing them back to life. The Times piece only references...
Anthony Kennedy gets to decide if and how the nation's health care system will start to be reformed, which makes all kinds of sense because of the Framers. Or something.
Oh, fer Chrissakes -- Bobo gives us the Bill Donohue explanation for the Penn State sex scandals. That is, he really seems to think that "people" in general seem to.