A law protecting the rights of vendors to refuse to provide services to same sex-couples in the context of marrying or celebrating their marriages was passed in the Kansas House and killed in the Kansas Senate. So it’s now moot, … Continue reading →
Read it. And then wonder whether the NY Times ever gets anything right.
Continue reading →Here’s an article in the NY Times about a new mammogram study that’s gotten a lot of attention. And here’s the study itself. Compare and contrast. The first sentence of the Times article: One of the largest and most meticulous … Continue reading →
Reading the administration’s announcements about how many people have signed up for Obamacare so far*, I realize that not only do I not trust the figures to tell the whole story, but I don’t trust them to have any relation … Continue reading →
Before I even begin, let me just ask: why would anyone trust the CBO’s projections about Obamacare’s effects? You don’t even have to believe that the CBO is purposely lying about anything to perceive that such prognostications are inherently suspect … Continue reading →
So, in President Obama’s interview with Bill O’Reilly Obama mostly bobbed and weaved and evaded answering questions in any meaningful manner. But he also doubled down on his lie on Benghazi, the one that had surfaced with some fanfare in … Continue reading →
…is one sick puppy. They should change their motto from “All the news that’s fit to print” to “All the gossip that could hurt the Republicans, and none of the news that could hurt the Democrats.” I guess it’s a … Continue reading →
Remember Tom Perkins? The guy who compared the war on the 1%, not to Kristallnacht, but to the beginning of a pattern that could lead to something like Kristallnacht? Well, his letter to the WSJ may be “the most-read letter … Continue reading →
…when Andrea Mitchell says “more or less” at around minute 1:00 of this clip from last night, maybe she actually means “less.” A lot less. Because otherwise, we’d have to come to the conclusion that she’s just making stuff up … Continue reading →
Because they might end up hurting her chances in 2018, by which time the demographics in Texas could favor a Democrat: By running now, Davis effectively reserves her place at ”” or close ”” to the front of the line … Continue reading →
…to observe someone like New Republic’s Isaac Chotiner struggle to retain his admiration for Barack Obama’s towering intellect and superb temperament as Chotiner simultaneously realizes that Obama is actually a supremely condescending blowhard who uses a great many more words … Continue reading →
Like sharks in the water, they smell blood. So there will probably be more of this sort of allegation, which seems to rest on word of mouth and involves two more officials in Christie’s administration. And I would not be … Continue reading →