Gary Bettman. Seriously, he's really reached a remarkable pinnacle of achievement. Being clearly the worst commissioner of a North American professional sport is like being the most irritating Train song.
Michelle Rhee is the most famous fraud among the education union-busters whose fake stories flatter various elites while doing nothing to advance the interests of underprivileged children. But Joel Klein,.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct. The attacks on Lena Dunham as the ultimate purveyor of white privilege in the arts are utterly bizarre. This isn't to say Dunham doesn't benefit from.
A well-known Trotskyite rag is reporting that new unemployment claims are significantly down. I wonder who or what is responsible for this faked data -- ACORN? McCulloch v. Maryland? The saucer people? I hope Jack Welch will get to the bottom of it!
On this week's ep of Foreign Entanglements, I chatted with Daniel Larison on a variety of topics, including the Biden-Ryan debate: Note that some find my thuggish demeanor off-putting. I.
Including adopting the preferred strategy of talk-radio callers and pinch hitting for your #3 hitter. Dammit. Meanwhile, Soriano throwing 5 balls, having two of them called strikes, and then having.
In light of his unemployment trooferism this week, it seems worth noting that Jack Welch was once the hands-on owner of a purportedly "liberal" network that worked extremely hard to put George W. Bush in the White House.
SEK accidentally cracks the control panel on the Smart Lectern trying to turn on the lights after playing a clip. He calls the tech people. Afraid that The Library will.
This Henry Wiencek piece at Smithsonian on Thomas Jefferson's dark side has half-perplexed me, yet the reactions show why it is so necessary. The piece essentially argues that Jefferson was.
Pete Rose: Pete Rose is a self-admitted big fan of Derek Jeter, but the all-time hits leader has done some math and says the New York Yankees shortstop will not touch his record. Rose told the website Sports on Earth this week that not only is time not on...
I am quite happy that President Obama has created the César Chávez National Monument. Although we are in a moment of much needed Chávez revisionism that begins to take apart.
Symbols are often mistaken for causes. As a Supreme Court scholar, it's striking to me that probably the two most famous Supreme Court decisions of the 19th Century are Marbury.