Michael Kinsley is someone who wrote columns worth reading during the first Bush administration, which for some reason means that he continues to draw a healthy paycheck to bring you such insights as "mass unemployment has to make things better in the future because ice cream,"...
Normally I make an effort to save these silly, substance-less posts for the weekend, but, I'm sorry, I could not let this pass without mentioning it. As you all know,.
Lydia DePillis embraces the job-destroying self-checkout counters at grocery stores. I've railed against this before for stealing jobs from workers, often unionized workers affiliated with the UFCW. I usually like.
As I have noted, the reactionary response to the horrors of the Gosnell clinic was to propose laws...that would make Gosnells more likely and safe first trimester abortions much harder to obtain. As Irin Carmon reports, California is responding to the lessons of Gosnell in a...
Shorter Erik Erikson: "Although most every legitimate poll on the planet shows us getting hammered over this shutdown thing, and everybody hates us, if we squint hard enough and focus.
This is brilliant. Dissident writer Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday morning for her fiction critical of the Canadian regime. While not overtly political, Munro is.
The 1892 Republican platform declared the principle "that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot in all public elections, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast; that such laws shall be enacted and...
Being an unpaid intern is great! On the one hand, you're not compensated for your work, often in blatant defiance of federal labor law. On the other hand, unless you're.
On October 10, 1917, the red light district of New Orleans, known as Storyville, closed due to the efforts of reformers seeking to eliminate vice from the city. During the.
Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a choice with which no one with decent taste in books could disagree. She's deserved it for years. It's also nice to see the Nobel committee pick someone who has so focused on the inner lives...
Some quality journamalism: The Associated Press previously cited an indictment stated McAuliffe had lied to a federal investigator regarding the death benefits scheme. The AP has since retracted those reports,.
For your viewing pleasure, an awesome B-58 propaganda film. It was obsolete before it became operational, but it was AWESOME. Via Dave Mujumdar at Dew Line.