Most hardball political tactics are unattractive, but I have a soft spot for this from the notoriously brass-knuckled mayor of Chicago: The Chicago angle on this is that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama’s former chief of...
Read MoreI guess we won’t have to destroy the Chicago Cubs after all. That little Jeremiah Wright trial balloon was popped like a bottle of champagne. Still, I’m sure Mr. Ricketts will figure out some way to make trouble. He...
Read MoreJonah Goldberg’s last book, Liberal Fascism, entered the New York Times bestseller list at #10, went to #3 the following week, and went to #1 five weeks later. His new book? Well, it came on the list at #24. And I’ve...
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports that last year, for the first time, a very slight majority of the babies born in this country were not white. I understand that articles like this are going to make some white people uncomfortable. I...
Read MoreAs Clay Shirky observes in Here Comes Everybody: The Power Or Organizing Without Organizations, “it’s not a revolution if nobody loses”. What Shirky calls the new social tools (e.g., Google, Wikipedia,...
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