it’s my privilege to welcome
Jamelle Bouie, of the United States of Jamerica fame, to the ranks as a member of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
Daily Archive: August 5, 2009
another slightly more academic-sounding addition to a relentlessly partisan and biased liberal blogosphere
“The League should feature higher standards for honest assessment, especially since I’ve commented on this exact point here once already. Honestly, I’ve thought very highly of the League in spite of its generally left-leaning...
No, it really is the Republicans who are pushing this nonsense
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to blame the rise of the Birthers on the Left after the movement germinated at conservative sites like Free Republic and WorldNetDaily, garnered favorable reviews from putatively...
The Honor of the Mascot, Or A Team By Any Other Name
By Jay Adler A lot of sports fans sighed the usual big one recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, on a technicality, upheld a lower court decision in favor of the...
thoughts on Wilkinson’s views on income inequality
Will Wilkinson has done yeoman’s work in his recent posts regarding income inequality, and in articulating some of my own dissatisfaction with certain liberal narratives regarding income inequality. A key graf: If we find...
saving the children, one banned book at a time
This sort of thing really pisses me off. For more on the CPSIA and dangerous, lead-inked vintage children’s books, go here or here or here. Then go buy up lots of used books at...
quote for the morning
“A combination of dumb drug laws, dysfunctional parole policies, “three strikes” laws passed by initiative, an endless procession of tougher-than-thou politicians, and a famously thuggish and politically powerful prison guards union has gotten California...
brief thoughts on cash for clunkers
Well, first of all I have a clunker. A minivan to be precise. It is rusty on the top, and though it drives fairly well in town, our mechanic recently warned us not to...
