Luke Russert's journalistic credentials entail 1)being the son of an overrated bobblehead host and 2)that's it. He has some incredibly dumb thoughts about how Elizabeth Warren is too un-American to speak at the Democratic convention. Fortunately, this motivated Charles Pierce to respond to "Prince Mishkin."...
Month: August 2012
Tennessee -- once a pretty moderate southern state, now a place where Glenn Reynolds can be considered an intellectual. ...Bonus Reynolds material with classic Richard Thompson reference. Who do I.
If you haven't read Karla Zabludovsky's piece today on locals in Michoacán organizing to fight illegal logging by criminal gangs that is robbing them of their livelihood and traditional ways.
This courageous quote comes courtesy of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. Being the governor of Mississippi, one might guess that Bryant is white, male, in his late 50s, and very conservative. As these are predominantly the prerequisites for the job (aside from the Ronnie Musgrove interlude)...
How bad are our elites? So many examples: Edward DeMarco, Fred Hiatt, Ben Bernacke... Two events from the last week have underscored this disturbing reality. The most widely covered was.
On August 3, 1981, the nation's air traffic controllers went on strike in arguably the greatest disaster in the history of American organized labor. Ronald Reagan's busting of the union.
For those Thursday night drivin' Robert Moses road lovin' readers out there, here's Hilary Harris' 1958 paean to the road, Highway.
Group play, consisting of three groups of four teams, ended two days ago. The tournament gets interesting now, with all four quarter final matches tomorrow (Friday). Eight of the twelve.
Harry Reid crossed a heretofore unknown Rubicon yesterday when he repeated his claim that Romney might be withholding his tax returns because "[h]e didn't pay taxes for ten years." National Review's.
John Keegan has passed away. His work as a military historian was uneven; The Face of Battle is a truly excellent popular evocation of combat through the ages, but his more scholarly efforts suffered from numerous flaws. Even Price of Admiralty left something to be...
In the spirit of this, I present this.
The mind boggles: Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) delivered his opening statement in Spanish at a hearing on Thursday about an English-only bill proposed by House Republicans. Republicans at the panel.