Month: January 2016

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Obama’s gun control speech today was, for whatever it’s worth, excellent. Substantively, the proposed policies probably won’t move the needle much, which isn’t Obama’s fault but that’s the situation we’re in. The preemptive declarations from Republicans that whatever Obama was proposing to do it must be unconstitutional are revealing: Obama’s proposals are, in terms of […]

News You Can Use!

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On January 5, 2016

The Maoists who edit the New York Times Style and Real Estate sections bring you this report from the about-to-move Four Seasons restaurant. (Martha Stewart gets cookies for her driver, and good for h

Uber and Employment

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On January 5, 2016

Stephen Greenhouse has your must-read long-read of the day in his exposé of Uber and the argument that their drivers are not employees. He discusses several key points that observers of the Uber econ

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Above: An opportunity to profit Michael Grabell, last noted here for his great piece on temp workers in modern America, has a vomit-inducing piece on the excesses of workers compensation conferences, where new layers of middlemen who have seen ways to profit of providing compensation, party to grotesque excess. A scantily clad acrobat dangles from […]
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“Terrorist” Is Too Kind

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On January 5, 2016
I think Burneko is on to something here: The American political lexicon has an appropriate word for the armed men conspicuously loitering in part of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge instead of going home. It is not terrorist or militia or occupation or revolution or movement or front or army or resistance. The word is […]
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Poverty in the Valley of Plenty

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On January 4, 2016
In 1948, the National Farm Labor Union and Hollywood filmmakers who hated the virulently anti-union big farm grower DiGiorgio Fruit, the largest grape, plum, and pear grower in the world, made a film titled Poverty in the Valley of Plenty to expose the terrible conditions of the farmers. In 1947, DiGiorgio responded to a strike […]

College Protests

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On January 4, 2016

Most colleges and universities are still on their winter break. So the 2015 new pastime of complaining about college protesters no matter what they do is on break. I know the National Review will alwa

Rahm

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On January 4, 2016

Boy, it sure is sad to finally see Rahm Emanuel fall apart. Rick Perlstein’s analysis of Rahm is pretty damning. First, all Rahm has ever cared about is cash. If that means hanging out with Repu

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