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 →
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 →
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 →
…it seems we’re about where we began: If you look at the chart, you’ll see that, so far, worry about global warming peaked around 2000 and again in the years 2006-2008. I’m not sure what was happening in 2000 (Al … Continue reading →
I must confess that the McCutcheon case that was decided by SCOTUS yesterday rested on an area of law with which I wasn’t all that familiar. One of the big questions yesterday’s ruling raised for me was: if campaign contributions … Continue reading →
There Reid goes again: Senate majority leader Harry Reid has a whole page on his official Senate.gov website devoted to revealing “THE FACTS ABOUT THE KOCH BROTHERS.” One of the alleged facts promoted on Reid’s website is that the Kochs … Continue reading →
Not the ceiling on each campaign contribution, mind you, but their total. The vote was the very familiar 5-4: Wednesday’s decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission…did not affect familiar base limits on contributions from individuals to candidates, currently $2,600 … Continue reading →
And here are statistics about it—sort of. You can find the articles nearly everywhere in the MSM on the success of the six million signups. Or enrollments. Or somethings. How many have paid or will pay, how many are well … Continue reading →
It boggles the mind: In a stunning criminal complaint, State Sen. Leland Yee has been charged with conspiring to traffic in firearms and public corruption as part of a major FBI operation spanning the Bay Area, casting yet another cloud … Continue reading →
Another day, another Obamacare extension, decided by the president himself—thus further justifying the fact that the law is called by his name. The thing that bothers me most about this extension of the deadline to April 15 is, once again, … Continue reading →
And it seems to go rather well: Delivering a rare speech for a Republican at this bastion of liberalism, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday was given multiple standing ovations by the left-wing audience after railing against government surveillance and … Continue reading →
Just for fun, I randomly chose an election year from the past to compare to recent ones. Here’s the map for the presidential race of 1880: Fifteen years after the Civil War, you can see an exceptionally dramatic North/South polarization. … Continue reading →