So, I do a lot of media. Â The guy taking over the politics desk at the local rag has interviewed me a couple of times, and this is his latest offering. Â To Sam’s credit, he got all the quotes correct.
Month: November 2015
Interesting… In “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush,” author Jon Meacham quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and
Moshe Marvit and Leigh Anne Schriever have an outstanding essay on members-only unionism. In other words, in a corporate and political regime that seeks to destroy unions, something that will likely b
I hope you all have been reading the superb NYT series about how mandatory arbitration agreements permit powerful businesses to violate the rights of consumers and employees with impunity. Andrew Koppelman adds an additional observation: Today’s New York Times reports the increasingly widespread use of arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, with the Supreme Court’s encouragement, […]
Below is the grave of one of the great American heroes, Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens hardly needs to be explained to most LGM readers, but briefly, a Whig lawyer who took an anti-slavery position early,
Why did Asian America (so to speak) abandon the GOP?  The answer is more complicated that it appears. On the failure of polling in the Kentucky governor’s race. The Valkyrie has been moved! Â
In These Times has an excellent essay on the corporate control over chemical regulation, including the chemical companies pioneering modeling systems that allows “testing” that provides almost no information on how chemicals will actually affect workers, consumers, or the ecosystems, as well as the EPA openly relying on corporate studies on chemical safety. This of […]
Connoisseurs of bad slippery slope arguments will enjoy yesterday’s oral arguments. I suspect that the Court will decide the case by determining that there is standing in this case because there
Spanish has a useful word, sinverguenza, which is often employed to mean something like “someone so utterly without shame to an extent that cries out for public condemnation.” (In addition
Some candidates in Republican presidential primaries, even really bad ones, are actually running for president. Other candidates are running grifts. I agree it’s pretty clear that Ben Carson is squarely in the grift category: Carson is doing a lot of things that seem puzzling for a presidential campaign, but quite logical for a brand-building exercise. […]
Another loss: Houston voters struck down a non-discrimination ballot measure Tuesday, delivering a blow to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights movement that had campaigned heavily for pa
Well, who needs health care anyway? Just try not to get sick. Also looking forward to Bevin doing a Scott Walker on Kentucky’s higher education system.