Over on Twitter, several people have picked up on WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker's comments on objectivity and how people should totally trust the press to bring them the facts, unless the fact is that someone lied. (Link: Chestnut Knights of the Equine Order [I...
Month: January 2017
United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard makes a good point about how Trump's political rhetoric about "bringing American jobs home" completely contradicts actual Republican policy. Will it matter when Trump's promises.
Only one playoff spot on the line, and it might not be much of a game,.
Hey all, Last month's DC Meetup was so fabulously successful that we're planning to do it again. Several front-pagers will be gathering in Manhattan on Saturday, January 7. We have tentatively scheduled the meetup for 3pm at Fool's Gold (145 E. Houston Street). We're pretty...
This is the grave of Paul Wellstone. Born in Washington, DC in 1944 and educated with a BA and PhD in political science at the University of North Carolina, Wellstone.
Bill Kristol has spent the early hours of 2017 sharing his 'big thoughts' about the state of.
Here are the top ten posts from 2016: Goodbye (Farley) Maureen Dowd is a National Embarrassment (Lemieux) Trump-inspired classism (Watkins) The Party Left Me and Other Complaints of the Voter-as-Atomistic-Consumer (Lemieux) If lawyers make too much money why is Matt Breunig panhandling on the internet?...
On January 1, 1935, the Carl Mackley Houses opened in Philadelphia. Built in conjunction with the Hosiery Workers Union, this project represents one of several attempts during the New Deal.
America's Last Liberal President (TM), everyone! Richard M. Nixon always denied it: to David Frost, to historians and to Lyndon B. Johnson, who had the strongest suspicions and the most.
Well, on balance 2016 was rather terrible. And, yet, 2017 will be much worse! So let's play some rock n' roll. Or whatever. Thanks for reading. There wouldn't be much point without you.