Well I certainly would have had more time to watch pro wrestling. Did the sheer number of debates help the joke candidates who had no hope of winning the presidential election. I looked at the Real Clear Politics polling average for Iowa and looked at the debate schedule. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . because a devastating attack from North Korea is promised tomorrow. I really don’t know what to make of this. I agree, of course, with Carl on the tyranno-pathological character of the regime. That means, of course, that we can’t be sure they won’t do something really . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I don’t really know. But that’s what we need right now. Any ideas about where to go for the best reporting and analysis on this? Meantime, a pretty solid blog, Robert Koehler’s Marmot’s Hole , is probably the best bet, even though Robert’s skill-set is more . . . . Continue Reading »
1. There’s a dispute on another FIRST THINGS blog on where the word “Easter” came from. No matter who’s right, I have to admit that, unlike “Christmas,” it has no distinctively Christian connotation. Still, “He is risen . . . ,” and let’s hope . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
So liberals are especially good at calling conservatives flip-floppers. It usually works because conservatives aren’t so great at explaining themselves. Jeffrey Rosen , in this great tradition, thinks in THE NEW REPUBLIC that the Court will probably overturn the DOMA on grounds of federalism . . . . Continue Reading »
Health insurance premiums are rising under Obamacare. This was totally predictable as a result of applying the Romneycare model of health care financing to states that lacked Massachusetts’s provisions of guaranteed issue, community rating, and Massachusetts’s preexisting high premiums. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve gotten lots and lots comments on my MINDING THE CAMPUS “short take” on cutting higher education costs by scuttling the hotel. Here’s a nice appreciation by a new leftist. It’s more evidence still that, on behalf of genuinely higher education, lefties of a . . . . Continue Reading »
My take on Mattie is a bit different than Peter’s, but the main difference is that I work more with the Coen brothers’ film—it really is an adaptation, nearly different from the original Portis as a classic poet’s adaptation of Homer might be. They add and subtract quite a . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn Reynolds’ doesn’t diss my anti-bubble thought-experiment. . . . . Continue Reading »
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