Barney Frank's recognition of Antonin Scalia's contempt for gays and lesbians has gotten predictable pushback from the likes of Fox News and Ann Althouse. The latter asserts that Frank is "either lying about having read [Lawrence v. Texas], lying about what Scalia wrote, or an...
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Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating AirportVia the Lede.
As Jesse and TBogg have noted, this is a case that will test just how far the Supreme Court is willing to let the War On (Some Classes of People.
I was a little ambivalent about Joe Nocera's critique of the Madoff investors. In particular, the investors claiming that more regulation was needed may be self-serving but they're also right; the SEC really should be able to stop a decades-long high-prominence Ponzi scheme. The fact...
Yeah, I think it's safe to say that Wells Fargo will be giving back their bailout money on the same day that Mr. and Dr. Instapundit "go Galt." Coincidentally. this.
William Saletan.I take it that for most our audience the analogy between Obama repealing Bush's ban on stem-cell research (or, at least, defending this policy in terms Saletan does not approve of) and Dick Cheney's policy of arbitrary torture is so specious that to restate...
Michael Lewis has a fascinating and horrifying piece in the current Vanity Fair on how Iceland went bankrupt.A handful of guys in Iceland, who had no experience of finance, were.
I think that Chait is basically right here, especially where "new ideas" are concerned. There is a caveat, which is that ideas and quality of governance aren't entirely inseparable; a.
I'm betting that according to Larry Kudlow this means we need to deregulate the markets and cut taxes.
Anybody who thinks that salary caps reduce ticket prices is economically illiterate, and the Maple Laffs ("the arrogance of the Yankees with the post-LBJ accomplishments of the New Orleans Saints!").
The mortgage deduction is indeed bad policy. Alas, it's pretty much an object lesson in path dependence; when you get policies like this wrong it's almost impossible to get rid.