Day: April 12, 2016

The rich marrying the rich makes the income gap worse, but it’s not our biggest problem | Brookings Institution

The rich marrying the rich makes the income gap worse, but it’s not our biggest problem | Brookings Institution

Will Truman April 12, 2016

It is important to keep a sharp distinction here between description and prescription. The trends being described...

Shepherds, Sheeple, and Kool-aid 5041299835_60ac35ec93_b_sheep

Shepherds, Sheeple, and Kool-aid

Adrian Rutt April 12, 2016

No doubt almost every single person who has interested themselves even slightly in politics has heard the...

It Ain’t Theft If It’s Legal Trump76

It Ain’t Theft If It’s Legal

Will Truman April 12, 2016

The party doesn't owe the plurality leader diddly squat. It is known what he has to do....

Morning Ed: Politics {2016.04.12.T} morninged0newspapers

Morning Ed: Politics {2016.04.12.T}

Will Truman April 12, 2016

Nomination theft!

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025First term it was a "blink and you'll miss it" thing, but yes it was on the RoR. I can't google up a…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Testing or measuring procedures cannot be determinative in employment decisions unless they have so…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I am not remembering this from the first Trump administration at all. I suppose it has to do somethi…
Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025they’re not even offering the second [a negotiated deal] If the Palestinians were to offer to match…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Palestinian leadership should negotiate with the Israeli government rather than go on quixotic quest…
LeeEsq in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Than the Palestinian leadership should negotiate with the Israeli government rather than go on quixo…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeI don't think that Griggs v. Duke Power Co says what you think it says. Or, alternately, you think r…
David TC in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025This means that the final settlement would be Israel vanquishing the Palestinians, which would be mo…
David TC in reply to DensityDuck on The Department of Good ThingsI have no idea what point you think you are making. TSA repeatedly fails _accidental_ penetration te…
David TC in reply to Burt Likko on The Department of Good ThingsWhich I also recall was met with a lot of cries of, “That’s your job, Mr. President!” I don't rememb…