Can we get in the Wayback Machine for a minute? All the way to a month ago. In early November, in the days before the midterm election, Ebola was the greatest threat this nation ever faced and who was to blame for that but the African in the White House himself, Barack Hussein Obama. Vote […]
Month: December 2014
I’m sure most of our readership is sufficiently well-informed to have not fallen prey to the “half of marriages end in divorce” and “divorce is on the rise” myths that ha
Elliot Gould’s apartment from The Long Goodbye is available for rent. For $2800 a month you can live in one of the most awesome apartments ever used on the silver screen, not to mention have a l
I was rummaging around the other day in my office and came across this old letter to the editor of the journal Western Field and Stream (one of the precursors to the modern Field and Stream) from October 1897: Objects to a Tax Editor Western Field and Stream: I notice a strong tendency in this […]
Well, whaddya know: Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that a city his opponents once said would grow more dangerous under his watch had, in fact, become even safer. Robberies, considered the most t
Lars von Trier. In the interview, his first since that Nazi kerfuffle at Cannes back in 2011, Von Trier revealed that nearly all of his past works have been fueled by heavy drug and alcohol use, claim
Early next week, I’ll be attending a conference on the future of warfare in Brasilia, Brazil. Two questions: What do people do for fun in Brasilia? Does anyone who reads LGM live in Brasilia?
Update: The 5th Circuit has stayed Panetti’s execution. Scott has already written about the appalling case of Scott Panetti, a severely mentally ill man who is scheduled to be executed tomorrow
Today is the anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. We should celebrate since this was never ever never ever never used by the United States for imperialistic ventures in Latin America.
Linda Greenhouse has an excellent critique of Jeffrey Sutton’s outlier opinion upholding bans on same-sex marriage. Jonathan Adler disagrees: Faulting a lower court judge for not acting like a constraint-free Supreme Court justice http://t.co/UqdzHNyH8D — Jonathan H. Adler (@jadler1969) November 30, 2014 Adler can’t capture this in 140 characters or less, of course, but Greenhouse […]
Above: The greatest aphrodisiac known to humanity, the union card. What is sexier than union membership? Nothing of course: Who knew that a union card was a turn-on? Well, that might not be literally
Eric Posner on Obama’s immigration executive order: What might these ends be? Imagine a President Rand Paul entering office in 2017. An enormous regulatory structure will greet him, nearly all o