Shorter Daily Tucker: By encouraging people to exercise, Michelle Obama is effectively a murderer. Among other things, Obama seems unaware that while walking and running are deadly activities, nobody has ever died operating a motor vehicle. Update (PC): That "sharp increase" noted by the Daily...
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In response to the indictment of Kermit Gosnell, William Saletan advocates for...regulations he's always advocated. What's unclear is how these regulations are relevant to the Gosnell case specifically. It's not.
Over at National Review I learn that Eric Cantor insists that Republicans will do "everything [they] can to delay and defund" health care reform because they are "about trying to.
Lots happening in information-technology-and-politics this past week; lots happening with the start of the semester too, so not much time to blog. Here's a run-down of things I wish I had time to say more about. Go crazy. 1) If you're not already, you want...
A bill to repeal the health care law drew the full force of both parties Tuesday as debate on the measure opened in the House, launching a two-year battle over.
Read the original story. Then watch the video: Subsequent reporting. See also Radley Balko.
Duss notes that the final paragraph of this Jennifer Rubin post is "one of the dumbest things you will read this year." And, indeed, it's a beauty, attributing the uprising in Tunisia to the non-existent "secular democracy" in Iraq: The left blogosphere seems to have...
I figured that his stunningly good work on DADT repeal meant that he was going to seek the Democratic nomination, but Holy Joe is out after this term.
Don Kirshner, the man responsible for the music behind the Monkees, has died. The Monkees represented everything that was most crass and reprehensible about the pop music scene of the.
The discussion of John Kasich's lily-white cabinet has brought out two different perspectives about how to think about political appointments. The conservative position that this doesn't matter is based on the idea that there must be one "most qualified" person for every spot, and that...
Very good analysis on the decision of the Wake County school baords decision to abandon a volutary intergration problem, and the ongoing problem of schools being both segregated and unequal.
I'm transitioning from teaching film to comics in my unfortunately named "Slow Horror" course tomorrow and so I'm preparing to introduce my students to comic conventions using Robert Kirkman's The.