Month: January 2014

In 2008, I couldn’t imagine anyone other than John McCain winning the Republican nomination. The alternatives were too pathetic. In 2012, I felt even more strongly that no one other than Mitt Romney could possibly win,...

More New Jersey mayors discuss Christie’s bullying. The Affordable Care Act does not provide taxpayer-funded abortions. Chewbacca took some nice photos on the set of the original Star Wars movie. How actual traffic studies...

Ariel Sharon died today, and Ben Birnbaum is unnaturally optimistic that Benjamin Netanyahu will agree to a peace agreement. Over the coming weeks, Netanyahu will likely find himself in the difficult position that Sharon found...

With news that the incoming speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, Vincent Prieto, will renew the Transportation Committee’s subpoena power, there is no hope of the BridgeGate controversy going away. But, more importantly,...

In recent years, we’ve seen the emergence of journalistic outlets that try to arbitrate the truthfulness of political statements. Perhaps the best established is the Tampa Bay Times’ Politifact. They do a tolerable...