Since I made a (minor, narrowly construed) concession to complementarian theories of marriage earlier today, I want to follow that up by wholeheartedly endorsing Amanda Marcotte’s commentary on this study: What’s remarkable about all this is not that men and women have so much in common but that these commonalities persist despite relentless gender policing […]
Month: February 2013
I don’t get the chance to say this often, but Bloomberg really stepped up and did the right thing here: Well look, I couldn’t disagree more violently with BDS as they call it, Boycott Divestme
My friend Russell Arben Fox has come a long way in the last few years (see here to chart the progress), and I am delighted he’s now joining me in celebrating the fantastic news from the UK yesterday
Unlike most other Red-Blue states, Pennsylvania is still considering changing the rules allocating their EC votes. Instead of the Congressional district system, the new move is for a variant of full on proportional where the 18 votes corresponding to the size of their House delegation are distributed proportionately, and the two remaining are awarded to […]
With respect to the question of how badly the Supreme Court damaged the Medicaid expansion in the PPACA, a couple of items pointing in the opposite direction: Encouragingly, Tea Party favorite John Ka
Idaho State Senator John Goedde, chair of the Education Committee, introduced a bill requiring all high school students read, and pass a test on, Atlas Shrugged as a requirement for graduation. Sadly,
A reader suggested I take a look at Hamilton Nolan’s ongoing Gawker series of unemployment stories. They make for harrowing reading, and a lot of them are from attorneys. Here’s one from somebody still in free fall from a spot near the top of the profession:
Oddly, Christine Quinn did not seem to believe in them before last week. And I’m sure that once the BDS talk is over she won’t believe in them again, which stands to reason since nobody do
Last weekend, I decided to check out Cape Cod in the winter. It was pretty great, even if cold. On my way to the Cape, I drove past a Wendy’s. They were offering a fish sandwich–made with
In this week’s Diplomat column I return to a topic of interest, intellectual property and military diffusion: The nature of intellectual property theft in the military sphere will change. Rather than purchasing (or otherwise appropriating) entire systems and then reverse engineering, future theft will likely involve cyber-attacks on states, companies, and even the law firms […]
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the memo uncovered by Isikoff. Perhaps the biggest problem with the framework is a definition of “imminent threat” that, if it’s more rigorous
Glenn Harlan Reynolds plays a little of the ol’ both sides do it: The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid the