Month: April 2015

Why Should I Pay Attention to Marco Rubio?

Another thing I find soul-crushingly boring is reading about Marco Rubio’s evolving tax plan. I don’t blame Brian Beutler for this; his article is quite good. It’s just that this topic involves taxes and Marco...

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Casual Observation

Hillary Clinton launched her campaign and Maureen Dowd is predictably grumpy about it. Me? I’m just bored. Mind-numbingly, crushingly bored. So, it’s telling that I don’t find much of anything in Dowd’s...

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The Stupidity Defense

Sometimes I get in a mood and think we should pass anti-stupidity laws. One of the main intents of these laws would be to punish people not for actually being stupid but for using stupidity as a defense. So, for example, if you...

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Dick Cheney and the Doomsayers

Nancy LeTourneau has a good piece up at the Washington Monthly on what extreme anti-Obama rhetoric is doing to our country, particularly when it is uttered by formerly respectable Republicans like Rudy Giuliani and Dick Cheney....

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Hillary and the pre-fail campaign

Hillary is running (stop me when you’ve heard this before). This is a pre-fail campaign. Democrats are living in dreamland She’s a target-rich environment. R have had 8 years to prepare, and they have not wasted this...

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