According to The Guardian, “managers” hired by universities in the UK have increased a modest 33% in the last five years. Academic staff have increased by 10% in that time (not my department, depending on how you spin the numbers, we’ve either held steady or lost one half of a FTE), students 9%. While it’s […]
Month: March 2010
I know we’ve dealt with part of this already, but here’s more Goldberg tendentiousness: Lepore mentions that the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the Buck v. Bell case, led by liberal hero Olive
Wrongful Death asks: If the courts rule that the federal government can force you to buy a product produced by a private company or pay a punitive tax, then why can’t the federal government force yo
The New York Times published another article on the Brookings write-up of an Israel-Iran wargame conducted in December. The opening stages of the game were strikingly similar to the Patterson Israel-Iran game of last month; Israel attacks without notifying the US, Iran responds in measured fashion, tension builds between Israel and the United States, and […]
Robert Samuelson gives away the show: Obama’s behavior resembles a highly indebted family’s taking an expensive round-the-world trip because it claims to have found ways to pay for it. It&
This weekend Glenn Reynolds noted that a “plausible” explanation for Barack Obama’s unwillingness to give the current Israeli government 100% of what it wants (Obama has drawn the li
My overstuffed inbox informs me that Jonah Goldberg is writing half-histories again, but if you can believe it, this time the argument he makes is more accurate than not: Look, eugenics was a very complicated phenomenon. But it does not clarify the topic to insist that, contrary to mountains of evidence and common sense, that all of the progressives […]
The LGM Bracket Challenge has become a tale of unimaginable horror, but I think I’ve figured out how it ends: M. Sandiford is in the lead, and wins with 1320 points if West Virginia wins the cha
Arguments that the requirement to buy insurance or pay a tax in the Affordable Care Act are unconstitutional are not very convincing. But apparently we’re going to see some that are much, much w
I recently suggested LGM readers support a Department of Justice Rule-making process on prison reform. I probably should have added that it’s not enough – not nearly enough – to simply log into the Change.org site and click “send” on the form letter they offer. In fact, if you did that already, you pretty much […]
Lame titular puns never augur well, and this post is no exception, as it concerns something Sarah Palin said in Searchlight, Nevada yesterday. Before a crowd of millions, Palin attacked the “lam
I don’t know if I could have taken a Tennessee championship.