France and Greece against Germany?: You can’t exaggerate the importance of France’s decision to align itself with Greece before this weekend’s crisis meetings. As Wolfgang Munchau correctly notes in the Financial Times, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has finally succeeded in … Continue reading →
Ann Althouse wonders about something Hillary Clinton said during her CNN interview. Althouse quotes James Taranto quoting Althouse on it: As for SNL [Hillary said]: “I think I’m the best Hillary Clinton, to be honest. So I’m just going to … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →…by firing the police chief: Rawlings-Blake said her motivation for replacing Batts was a spike in murders during the past month and not a police union report criticizing her and Batts for the April riots after Freddie Gray was fatally … Continue reading →
…and where they stop, nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure it won’t be anyplace good. I’ve written a lot about the current Iran negotiations, but don’t take the fact that I haven’t written about them lately to mean … Continue reading →
Now, there’s a pleasant subject, you might say (sarcastically, I hope). But I take the topic up as a public service. Let me explain how I came to research this. Sometimes when I’m working, either on the blog or around … Continue reading →
Try this. If you’re sensitive to the f-word, avoid it. But I especially love the way the narrator manages to get the tone of voice exactly right. When I went through my many years of chronic pain, I had a … Continue reading →
The Obama administration is going forward with its plan to engineer local neighborhoods through the executive branch. I wrote about this before at some length, here. It’s a policy that would be highly unlikely to pass Congress, so it’s being … Continue reading →
The Chinese stock market is in big trouble, and no one seems to quite know why. And although it’s always nice to have some company when you’re feeling ignorant, it’s not nice to have this much company. The question, as … Continue reading →
Will Greece get another chance?: Merkel and French President Francois Hollande worked together on a plan to save Greece from plunging into economic turmoil and possibly having to ditch the euro. This involved a medium-term conditional program and a short-term … Continue reading →
Religious opposition has blocked the advancement of a right-to-die bill in the very liberal state of California—at least for now: The authors of the right-to-die bill did not present the legislation to the Assembly Health Committee as scheduled because it … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I, which was posted about two weeks ago, can be found here.] Not only has Princeton bioethics professor Peter Singer advocated infanticide for profoundly disabled infants if parents request it, he also has done a lot of writing … Continue reading →