What happened in North Carolina last night? I think that blogger CAC at Ace’s hits the nail on the head in this post, and points out a problem that GOP conservatives had better figure out a solution to or they’ll … Continue reading →
I remember reading decades ago about how quickly we judge people when we first meet them. Yes or no, stay or move on? This 1986 book said the judgments all happen within four minutes, but my impression is that it’s … Continue reading →
Why Monica, why now?: After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking … Continue reading →
No, this article giving six reasons for the above phenomenon did not appear in the Onion. My favorites are numbers three, four, and six: Obama’s been stymied by the vast and controlling “conservative media complex”; he’s had too much “policy … Continue reading →
One would think that this would be enormous news, and should have been from the moment the girls were kidnapped: Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls [kidnapped from school on April 14, almost 3 weeks ago] … Continue reading →
You might want to take a look at this summary of the varied ways in which Obamacare pays off the health insurance companies who play ball with the exchanges: risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors.
Continue reading →The NY Times has a dilemma. It cannot help but notice that the expected and predicted fruits of Obama’s foreign policy (or of his mere presence in the White House) seem to be rotting on the ground. Even more importantly, … Continue reading →
…Tommy Vietor was only re-stating the oft-repeated message of the Obama administration about the Benghazi emails. I yield to none in my contempt for Vietor and in my rage that someone so callow and disrespectful was allowed anywhere near the … Continue reading →
Whenever I write about dance, I’m handicapped by the fact that all I can offer is a video and some words, and perhaps a few still photos. That’s better than nothing. But it doesn’t even begin to compare with seeing … Continue reading →
…let me just say that this article is as bad or worse than the science it purports to debunk. I could write either a book on this topic or a short post. Since it’s Saturday, you get the short post. … Continue reading →
Yesterday commenter “Nick” wrote this on the thread about Krystal Ball’s Animal Farm summary: OK, OK, I hate to be this guy, but Orwell would have been fine with Ball’s reading. Orwell was a socialist. His problem with the pigs … Continue reading →
First we have Ben Rhodes, fiction writer morphed into Obama’s deputy National Security Advisor while barely in his mid-thirties, with nary a bit of foreign policy experience under his belt except what he learned on the job. But he has … Continue reading →