Month: April 2014

There’s too much on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand in Jonathan Chait’s latest piece. When he finally comes to some decisions, it’s not very satisfying. I will say, though, that I agree with him that...

Camille Paglia is just weird. I was prepared to consider her argument for doing away with the requirement that people be 21 years old before they can legally purchase alcohol, but she just used her space to write an incoherent...

Or making lemonade out of lemons. Michelle Obama’s Topeka, KS speech has been adjusted. Still honors the 60th Anniversary of the decision in Brown vs. The Board of Education, still held in Topeka, KS, and still primarily...

I haven’t written about Cliven Bundy because I don’t really give a crap about him. I am not surprised to learn about his belief that blacks were better off as slaves, but it actually doesn’t lower my opinion of...

I don’t want to pick a fight with white southerners, but we do have to deal with certain facts: The problem for Republicans is that the Democratic weakness appears confined to the white South. Even though some analysts...