Day: February 8, 2017

Guardian: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source penny-farthing

Guardian: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source

Burt Likko February 8, 2017

One wonders what this will do to Ordinary Times' comment section.

WaPo: The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren and an old Senate Rule Prompted by a Fistfight penny-farthing

WaPo: The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren and an old Senate Rule Prompted by a Fistfight

Burt Likko February 8, 2017

It was all too much for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who said Warren had “impugned the...

Have We Passed Peak NFL? NFL: San Francisco 49ers at Carolina Panthers

Have We Passed Peak NFL?

Richard Hershberger February 8, 2017

The end of the world as we know it? How do you feel about this?

Morning Ed: US Politics {2016.02.08.W} Richard Hanania

Morning Ed: US Politics {2016.02.08.W}

Will Truman February 8, 2017

Trump, immigration, and more! Well, mostly Trump and immigration.

Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25On the success of Don't Rank Cuomo: “In these troubled times we live in, we need that.” Dawn Phelps,…
Philip H in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25They “looked dominant” which was the point. You can’t “win” negotiations by looking “weak” and diplo…
Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaNeither are prevailing wages in construction or agricultural work. But those workforces are being ru…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Initial reports are that the strikes only set the Iranian program back by months. What a disaster. N…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreOne point that strikes me as obvious is that continuing to fail, enough times, presents identically…
Jaybird in reply to John Puccio on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?From what I understand, the original pitch for Stranger Things was a bunch of clips from a half doze…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThere are plenty who consider "we tried and failed" to be morally justifiable in a way that "we didn…
John Puccio in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Similar to Band of Brothers.
Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaWe had to have a plumber out yesterday evening because some numbnuts in an apartment above us has be…
Philip H on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaAt 4% unemployment nationally these jobs will remain difficult to fill.