Michael Bloomberg, sensible American and our only hope to return from the brink of something: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vetoed a City Council bill that would have raised the minimum wage in New York City to $11.50, calling the measure "a throwback to the era...
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Here we see example #520 of villagers gnashing their teeth and rending their garments when Democratic voters elect real Democrats over the kind of Republican-lite Democrats political elites think they.
That word, I do not think... The Cameron government is a very, very special. To get well to Herbert Hoover's right after seeing the consequences of austerity the first time.
I kept meaning to blog about the Pineda/Montero trade, but I couldn't decide what I thought about it. Normally, I would trade a good 23-year-old pitcher for a grade A prospect without hesitation, because most pitchers who reach the majors at that age get hurt...
Or, at a minimum, the provision requiring state law enforcement officials to determine immigration status, which may be upheld unanimously: Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared inclined to uphold a.
And you thought I was going to write about Leno.... Sarah Goodyear has a nice piece at the Atlantic about the invention of jaywalking. Essentially, cars were seen as murderous.
I was very happy to see President Obama use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Fort Ord National Monument in California, protecting some of the last wild land in the Monterey Bay area. It looks super cool and I would love to visit. I...
Pierce: Too much of the book is simply a culture-war text gussied up in a chasuble. Douthat is extremely bothered by people who claim to seek enlightenment from a "God.
This is more Scott's beat than mine, but evidently Chuck Klosterman -- the nitwit who couldn't spend 30 minutes or so actually listening to a tUnE-yArDs album ("wow, their lyrics.
Won't someone please think of the children?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! These days, you can’t get a sugar high without experiencing a cultural low. Hello, I’m Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. There’s trouble in candy land. After more than 70 years together, Mike &...
Rick Scott makes his case to be the unofficial chairman of the Republican War On Parody and War on Women Committees: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) shocked the Florida Council.
Above: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany Nobody could have predicted that policies that don't make any sense in theory and have been disastrous in practice when tried before would fail again:.