On the one hand:(1) No single payer(2) No public option(3) No expansion of Medicare(4) People will be forced to buy insurance they don't want (btw about 17% of drivers on any given day have no car insurance although it's legally mandated).On the other:(1) In theory,...
Author: Paul Campos
Ezra Klein argues that Joe Lieberman is willing to "cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people" for no better reason than to settle some old political scores.This has.
. . . does Harry Reid not understand?
They understood that the best way to protect minority rights via legislation was to employ a three-step process.Step One: Create a system of legislative rules so inherently dysfunctional that nothing could be done about serious national problems until blood was on the verge of running...
. . . for your general manager to trade your 28-year-old all star centerfielder with the cheap long-term contract to the New York Yankees.Granderson had a bit of a down.
Some very preliminary thoughts:Great draw for both the U.S. and England. Algeria is clearly the weakest African team and Slovenia might be the softest Euro side. Right now it looks.
The Monty Hall problem is a well-known thought experiment in probability analysis. The problem is fairly simple, but for reasons that aren't well understood the right answer is sufficiently counter-intuitive that a very large majority of people get it wrong on their first attempt. More...
St. Ignatius of Georgetown bestows his benediction on Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan, but, being a liberal columnist at the liberal Washington Post, he regrets that the announced.
Stephen Walt:Americans have come to believe that spending government revenues on U.S. citizens here at home is usually a bad thing and should be viewed wth suspicion, but spending billions.
One of the keys to interpreting reactions to the arrest of Roman Polanski is understanding that, culturally speaking, a lot of sexual assaults aren't considered crimes by the men or boys who commit them, and to a lesser extent by the women and girls who...
The moment that this blog has been dreading since its creation has come to pass.In all semi-seriousness, the hero worship athletes elicit is a subject worth studying. As I noted.
Speaking of the culture of celebrity and media saturation, an ironic aspect of the ridiculous levels of worshipful coverage that Brett Favre has gotten over the years is that it.