A long, long time ago (the Gilded Age) in a land far, far away known as Montana there was a man named William Clark. Not the Lewis & Clark guy but instead a mining capitalist. Born in Pennsylvania in 1839, he followed his family to Iowa...
I know that making fun of Friedman is shooting fish in a barrel, but this is pretty great.
Take me out of the ball game.
As mentioned below, the Supreme Court struck down three of the four challenged provisions of the Arizona immigration law and left open an as-applied challenge on the other one. As I also suggested below and explain further at the link, the Scalia dissent is a perverse...
No health care ruling. Mandatory life sentences for people under the age of 18 unconstitutional. Shockingly, same 5-person majority not willing to say that Citizens United was wrong, throws out.
Campbell Brown.
Old news, but worth revisiting this pre-analysis from Duss and Hussein Ibish:
The content of Anne-Marie Slaughter's much-discussed Atlantic piece is not as bad as the white-baby-with-mean-feminist-mommy cover would indicate. And yet in some ways the cover is accurate, because a lot.
Once you learn to fake that you've really got it made.
The banality of evil, college football edition. On a related note, this is an excellent profile of Noam Chomsky.
Chris Wade wins the internets this fine Saturday. Or actually yesterday I guess but I just saw it.
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