The very, very, very Serious Paul Ryan is still going on about the deficit. He’s also proposing massive upper-class tax cuts, and arguing that his budget will somehow the avoid savage cuts to programs to the poor the two policies would make inevitable if we’re supposed to take the initial premise seriously. How can he […]
Month: September 2014
Shorter Rick Perry: Our state’s new regulations requiring abortion clinics to meet the standards of surgical centers in order to shut them down would have prevented Joan Rivers’s death in
In addition to the comedy, I’d just like to note that (presumably non-premium) Michigan football tickets have a face value of 75 smackers. But don’t kid yourself, when professional owners
On September 23, 1969, President Richard Nixon issued the Philadelphia Plan, forcing building trades unions to allow black members into their ranks. Nixon did this believing that it would show him as a strong civil rights president without having to do very much to give in to the more radical demands of the civil rights […]
So now we’re bombing Syria, in a way we never imagined we might be bombing Syria! Oh, how the world turns. I realize that I should have a stronger opinion on all of this, both on political and p
There are very few occasions when I have a sizable chunk of time to myself these days. When I do, I sometimes take the opportunity to binge-watch a show that’s captured my attention. Yesterday I
[Relevant background.] Stanley Kurtz is excited about the Hillary Clinton/SAUL ALINSKY connection, and did I mention that it involved Saul Alinsky? Alinsky’s original quarrel with the young radicals of the 1960s, which Hillary alludes to in her letter, was over the New Left’s tendency to make noise rather than get things done. Working effectively, Alinsky […]
I’ll be on Graphic Policy Radio again tonight discussing Fox’s new Batman-related show Gotham. The show begins at 10 p.m. EST and you’re more than welcome to call in, tweet at me, o
My latest at the National Interest takes a look at the Chinese DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile: The DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) has generated a tremendous amount of interest over the
On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Ed Carpenter and I talk about misogyny in the military, and Burning Man:
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves in all parts of the U.S. in rebellion free on January 1, 1863 if they did not rejoin the Un
Andy McCarthy is amazing: At National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy criticized “tendentious ‘sports journalists,’ the majority of whom are decidedly left of center, are much less guarde