Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael and Sisera.
Spare a Thought for Nancy Pelosi
She is only the House minority leader, and the former speaker of the House. And she was speaker when Obamacare was passed. How could she possibly have known that there would be implementation failures? I mean, it's not as though she was, or is a powerful political official with access to information, or anything. Recall …
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We knew the full-body scanners didn’t work before they were even installed. Not long after the Underwear Bomber incident, all TSA officers at O’Hare were informed that training for the Rapiscan Systems full-body scanners would soon begin. The machines cost about $150,000 a pop. Our instructor was a balding middle-aged man who shrugged his shoulders after everything he …
MSNBC: The Shock-Jock Network
MSNBC sees it as its mission in life to rile conservatives and outrage people. We have seen this tendency play itself out in Martin Bashir's comments about Sarah Palin, in Melissa Harris-Perry's--and friends'--comments about one of Mitt Romney's grandchildren, and now we see it anew in a tweet that all but outright states that all …
Obamacare Is Supposed to Help the Uninsured . . .
So, I guess that it is interesting to note that the uninsured don't seem to like it all that much. I recognize that it is fashionable for port-side pundits to tell us that the problems with Obamacare have come to an end, and that it is smooth sailing from here on out when it comes …
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“Is the New York Times Biased?”
Yes. Next question?
Still More on the American Studies Association and Its Boycott of Israeli Universities
A fine statement against the boycott by UCLA chancellor Gene Block. And all hail Stephen Harper. (I presume that there will now be claims that AIPAC is exercising its well-known insidious influence on Canadian prime ministers.) Incidentally, the universities engaged in the boycott may be violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I …
Magnus Carlsen v. Bill Gates
It wasn't even a contest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NwnSltHFo
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Other things being equal, income equality is better than inequality. But other things are NOT equal. The easiest way to make incomes more equal in the short run is to have a recession. Much has been made of growing income inequality since 1979, but very little attention has been paid to which of the four …
You Haven’t Been Misled by the New York Times, You Are Being Given the Opportunity to Explore an Alternative Reality
Have I mentioned recently that the state of journalism is nothing short of awful?
Pejman Yousefzadeh 