It would
be understandable if Paul Ryan didn’t want to stick his neck out
just now. As the GOP vice-presidential nominee last year, Ryan
spent four months on a whistle-stop tour of the country, shaking
hands, answering questions, and speaking at campaig...
Both parties constantly make accusations that their rival is
engaged in hypocritical, unethical, or illegal behavior. Given the
drastic lack of ideological diversity in the American elite media,
the general public usually only hears about such accusations...
Marco Rubio.
Paul Ryan.
The IRS.
Illegal immigration.
And fraud to the tune of billions..
Now there’s a combustible mix.
Let’s start with the IRS, illegal immigration and fraud. We’ll
come back in a minute to Senator Rubio and Congressman Ryan.
For...
SACRAMENTO — After the housing bubble burst a few years
ago, sending real estate prices to the floor in many places, some
influential academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed
demise of something they had always hated: the suburbs.
In their v...
The first movie I remember seeing in a theater was
Superman.
It was December 1978 and my family was in Victoria, British
Columbia for my Dad’s sabbatical. I was six-years old and was
absolutely captivated by the whole spectacle. Everything was large
tha...
My friend Happy Jack Feder lived in Missoula, Montana, in the
early 1980s in the same neighborhood as the writer Dorothy Johnson,
who lived in a small house on Dearborn Avenue. Johnson was retired
from teaching by then, but had worked in the English Depar...
Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National
Security Agency’s massive surveillance program, there is a growing
distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs
and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to asse...
Lori Brasnahan was trying to save her daughter’s life when she
was stabbed to death in March, prosecutors say. Branashan and her
daughter were abducted from the parking lot of Great Northern Mall
near Syracuse by a man who brutally raped the 10...
Over the past few days, pro-choice commentary on the GOP’s
ostensible obstinacy on the issue of abortion has ramped up.
“Haven’t they learned from the 2012 election to steer clear of the
social issues?” “That’s why wome...
It is remarkable to read pieces like these.
Truly.
Time after time moderate Republicanism loses the presidency or
wins by the skin of the Supreme Court’s teeth or 100,000 votes in
Ohio – and this is held up as a successful way to run a political
party...
Is Obama losing the young? Dave Weigel once quipped that if a
headline is a question, then the answer is almost always “no.”
That’s probably true in this case. But Michael Barone is
wondering the same thing over at the Washington
E...
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) confirmed to House Republicans
that he will enforce the “Hastert Rule” for the immigration reform
bill,
according to reports by The Hill. The announcement came at a
closed-door GOP House conference meeting.
The Hastert R...
