I have some follow-up thoughts to the GPS surveillance decision handed down by the Supreme Court earlier this week. The first major takeaway from the case is that Sonia Sotomayor was one of the best decisions Obama has made so far: The split on the...
Month: January 2012
Item: When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven.
Megan McArdle delivers a typically hackish column on Obama's SOTU address. After noting her TV appearance with such bright bulbs as John Stossel and Gary Johnson, she proceeds to get.
I strongly recommend Laura McKenna's piece on the wall that separates the general public from academic research: Step back and think about this picture. Universities that created this academic content for free must pay to read it. Step back even further. The public -- which...
How do you celebrate your 52nd birthday if you are Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Toga party of course. Via
Ron Paul is the only candidate willing to take a stand against assassinating US citizens on the moon with drone strikes. Listen up, so-called progressives.
The general tenor of the labor community is that Obama was typically tepid on labor issues in his State of the Union. He mentioned in passing a union workplace in Milwaukee as an example of jobs being brought back to the United States, but the...
My high school makes the news for the only time ever. And it is for a typically classy thing. ....Though to be fair, the town as a whole, and in.
Shorter Rick Reilly: "Sure, the late Joe Paterno may have knowingly done nothing while someone he knew to be a child rapist continued to work for the head of a.
Another predictably unhinged anti-airpower screed: Steven Cook argues that the United States and NATO ought to start seriously discussing intervention in Syria. If not and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is left to massacre his political opponents, he wonders, what message will it send to the...
A useful chart from Plumer. For further context: Romney has said he was unemployed. He's right. He actually does nothing to earn most of his income. He's just in possession.
"The enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who want them to continue to exist." Anyway, that speech should quiet Bill Kristol down for a while.