The performance of the Post yesterday reminds me of a friend's dictum that the New York Post isn't a newspaper, it's a social menace. [Background for those who missed the premise for the joke.]
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Well, well, well: In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released a paper, "Growth in a Time of Debt." Their "main result is that...median growth rates for countries with.
Glenn Reynolds has some Deep Thoughts: And it's also reminder that media bias exists not only in how the press covers stories, but in the choice of stories to cover.
I make this confession: I'm an anthropologist from the future, intent on discovering feelings that have yet to be offended, except I did something wrong and it collapsed and broke my brain and feet and spleen. Some of the aftermath has been chronicled online.* But...
A terrible day what with this horrifying Boston violence. I have nothing to offer at this point except for that. And an attempt at lightheartedness that might make people feel.
"It would be irresponsible to speculate," Pamela Geller will never say, especially not when Muslims speak. Conservatives have realized that having a choke-hold on the narrative and maintaining constant pressure.
Jen Rubin everybody! Adam also notes that Rubin's attack of a colleague with an exceptionally offensive non-sequitur would seem to violate the WaPo's guidelines. But since it's hard to find one that Rubin doesn't violate on a systematic basis -- especially #1 -- I guess...
Obviously our invasion of Saudi Arabia after the 9/11 attacks failed to prevent more terror. Update: NY Post report of arrest denied by police. From NBC News: Federal officials told.
(Of course this is yet another one of those visual rhetoric posts. Can you not see all the pictures?) The title of the episode, "The Collaborators," is so obviously meant.
It's a robust internet tradition that the a significant portion of the comments in every post that responds to Matthew Yglesias, or even mentions him in passing, must be dominated by arguments about the proper global assessment of Matthew Yglesias, and the comments on Scott's...
Despite the violence fetish of some leftists, the reality is that left-wing terrorism has declined to almost nothing in the United States since 1980. We do face severe domestic terrorist.
You might think the Cypriot banking system is little more than a corporate off-shore scam. And you'd be at least partly right. But the U.S. has some pretty special state.