[UPDATE: Hirsi Ali comes back with a ringing statement, worth reading in full. An excerpt: I wish to dissociate myself from the university’s statement, which implies that I was in any way consulted about this decision. On the contrary, I … Continue reading →
Some things never go out of style: A 16-year-old boy “was flashing two knives around” when he injured 19 students and a school police officer who eventually subdued him with the help of an assistant principal at a high school … Continue reading →
…never, never, never to appear at a function wearing the same dress as Kate Middleton. Never.
Continue reading →I’ve heard for years, perhaps even decades, that the oft-quoted statistic about women’s wages being so much lower than men’s as a result of wage discrimination is a myth, an artifact of other factors than discrimination. So this sort of … Continue reading →
Do you recall that part of the path to the passage of Obamacare involved some manipulation in order to get the proper CBO scoring? There were a lot of aspects to that, including the delay of many of the bill’s … Continue reading →
I’ve heard for years about the Republican “establishment” pushing this candidate or that candidate on the rank and file. Most of the time it’s seemed untrue to me. But it seems absolutely on target with the current talk of Jeb … Continue reading →
If this hadn’t happened, now that would have been a shock. After all, if you give Medicaid to a whole new group of people, offer subsidies to a huge number of other lower-income people, and stick everyone else with penalties … Continue reading →
…Saturday was voting day in Afghanistan: The strong turnout came despite threats from the Taliban to disrupt the vote and punish all involved in the first democratic transfer of presidential power in the country’s turbulent history. Lest you think the … Continue reading →
Actor Mickey Rooney has died at 93. In my mind, I picture him as an irrepressible young man; that’s the age he was when he gained his greatest fame. As a child, I watched the Andy Hardy movies on my … Continue reading →
Here’s Sullivan[emphasis mine]: Hillary Clinton only declared her support for marriage equality in 2013. Before that, she opposed it. In 2000, she said that marriage “has a historic, religious and moral context that goes back to the beginning of time. … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →The folks at Mozilla may yet live to regret their decision in cooperating with the forcing out of Brendan Eich. Apparently the internet giant has been getting a lot of negative reaction to its jettisoning of Eich for his 2008 … Continue reading →