To follow up on yesterday's post, there's one more thing about James Stewart's ridiculous defense of the Ryan plan I'd like to point out: As I pointed out a few weeks ago, Mr. Ryan’s tax plan, which calls for lowering top rates to 25 percent...
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America's shittiest artist, dead at 54.
National Review has disassociated itself from John Derbyshire. For those who would complain about the violation of Derbyshire's supposed First Amendment rights, keep in mind the Constitution no longer applies.
Of course he has. Michelle Goldberg has a grimly entertaining interview with one of the drivers of the repeal of pay equity laws, who has some further thoughts to share after citing the eminent sociologist Ann Coulter: Grothman doesn’t accept these studies. When I ran...
Although it's silly in the abstract, I actually kind of enjoy how the prohibition on New York Times columnists disagreeing with each other by name works in practice -- Krugman.
Holbo is making sense: Ponnuru and Goldberg have tweeted against him. I would be curious to hear them explain why they think this is over the line, not just that.
The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There...
I'm not sure why; he's been what his latest racist post says he is for a long time (see also his claim that only "Christian Anglo-Saxon men" are capable of.
EAST: 1. NYY 2. BOS (*) 3. TB 4. TOR 5. BALT I will have no problem making my annual reverse-hedge bet for Planned Parenthood with Howard, as the Yankees.
The decline of American journalism has some things in common with the decline of the legal profession. Consider this piece of "journalism," published yesterday in Forbes, purportedly one of the nation's leading financial magazines: (more…)
In case you want to know who the ALEC staffers are and, say, want to follow their Twitter feeds/harass them for being evil, this guide is for you.
Bobo. ...Jamelle has more. The basic con Brooks is running for the Ryan budget is that because Ryan refuses to specify the specific cuts that would flow from his plan.