The rule of law is dead, one random winger asserts, and Hillary Clinton killed it: What’s truly unsettling is that it has been widely taken as read among both the media and the general public that Mrs. Clinton will likely avoid serious legal consequences for her behavior because the Justice Department is ultimately answerable to […]
Month: September 2015
Dan Wetzel — who has been consistently excellent on the story — has the definitive Ballghazi analysis: Oh, Roger had it all in his hands back in May. Kraft magnanimously/foolishly dropped
Excellent: It’s going to be pretty hard for opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal to claim any momentum from the Schumer defection to their ranks any longer. Today three more previously undecided Democ
Thanks to Bruce Vail for sending me this hilarious propaganda comic General Electric put out in 1947 during the debate over the Taft-Hartley Act. He asked me to credit the Maryland labor activist Bill Barry in hunting this up and putting it into a PDF file. Enjoy!
The people who run football provide one with such joy. The NCAA makes Roger Goodell look like a man of principle. As a response to the fear of college football players unionizing, the NCAA’s big
A Kentucky judge fails to recognize Kim Davis’s sacred right to get paid while refusing to do her job and obstruct the rights of the citizens she represents based on arbitrary whim: Federal Dist
Yup: It’s fitting that Roger Goodell’s biggest failure, the one that could well end up permanently lessening the considerable power he and NFL owners have traditionally held over the NFLPA, was born out of the stupidest scandal in the history of the NFL, and perhaps all of sports. This is precisely the kind of defeat […]
A lot of people resent the Patriots, because they’re really good. It’s nice to think that the Patriots beat the crap out of you every time they play you not because they’re smart eno
My latest at the National Interest continues what amounts to the book tour for The Battleship Book: In the early 1940s, the U.S. Navy still expected to need huge, first rate battleships to fight the b
If you’d like to be extremely rich, being born extremely rich is highly useful: “It takes brains to make millions,” according to the slogan of Donald Trump’s board game. “It takes Trump to make billions.” It appears that’s truer than Trump himself might like to admit. A new analysis suggests that Trump would’ve been a billionaire […]
There is nothing in this world that says “small government” more than the idea that local government officials should be able to enforce law based on whim and personal preference: “There
Beloved commenter Denverite did not believe that the recent email Lanny Davis sent to Hillary Clinton revealing him a a particularly pathetic drooling lickspittle was real. To his credit, he offered t