The GOP Needs a Wise Fool
What high-ranking elected officials in the Republican Party need most right now is a fool.Not the kind who’s addled or stupid, but a wise fool who is allowed to take the liberty to speak truth to...
View ArticleFact Checking 101: The Ugly Truth about What's False
No less an authority on truth than The New York Times, The Newspaper of Record, reveals what fact checking and error correction is all about.In a demonstration of candor unparalleled in today's...
View ArticleSome comments on Armando's "One Perspective"
First off, well done, Armando! Parts might be a little dense for DK's more general audience, but this case presents dense, not simple, questions. I disagree with some of Armando's judgments, but...
View ArticleIf baseball isn't commerce, why should health care be?
In 1922, the Supreme Court decided that it was a stretch to apply the antitrust laws to baseball, so the Court reasoned that professional baseball was not an activity in interstate commerce. The...
View ArticleThe First Degree: A Proposal for a Think Twice Law
Stand Your Ground laws, enacted in perhaps as many as 15 states, possibly more, have also been called "Make My Day" and "Shoot First" laws. They have been promoted by that bastion of personal rights...
View ArticleDear Mitt, Bottom Line ... Talk Straight with Us
You're running for President, for goodness' sake.You know you have to get more votes than the conservative base can deliver by itself. So you have to appeal to the independent/middle/undecided/leaning...
View ArticleGuns Don't Kill People? The Hell They Don't!
Recall the NRA's old rallying cry - "Guns don't kill people. People kill people."Well, people with guns - yes, and explosives, too - can kill and injure a lot more people and faster than people without...
View ArticleAre There Any Prospects for Gun Regulation?
My article last Sunday – luridly titled “Guns Don’t Kill People? The Hell They Don’t!” - proposed that we, the people, should step up and demand a ban on assault weapons in the wake of the Aurora...
View ArticleTodd Akin, "Legitimate Rape" and "Utter Moron"
Can utter morons misspeak?Just yesterday, MO-2 Congressman Todd Akin (R-naturally) who is running against Claire McCaskill for the US Senate seat in the "Show Me" state of Missouri, declared in an...
View ArticleRomney's Tax Plan: A Shell Game
This weekend, Mitt Romney pledged to David Gregory that he would not cut taxes for the wealthy.That seemed to confuse even George Will. But it needn't have, because there's a way to do it that makes...
View Article2012 Election: Wrong Date, Wrong Location
Meteor Blades reports:[L]ast week, the Republican-run Ottawa County Board of Elections sent a mailer to 2,300 voters in three northwestern Ohio precincts informing them that Election Day was November...
View Article"Top aide to Obama signals willingness to compromise over raising top tax...
That's not my line. That's a Reuters story released Sunday (and carried by the AP), bylined to Alister Bull, with the following lead paragraph:"A senior Republican senator voiced confidence on Sunday...
View ArticleHere's to the Bigger Tent of the Recently Renewed GOP
It's the holiday season again. Good will abounding, all about us, every one! Shall peace reign and the brotherhood of humankind be restored on Capitol Hill, too, and across this great nation of likely...
View ArticleGoodbye, Shiny Platinum Object to Evade the Debt Limit
According to Ezra Klein at the Washington Post:The Treasury Department will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to get around the debt ceiling. If they did, the Federal Reserve would not accept...
View ArticleWhy Isn't the Gun Loaded?
ABC reports that a Virginia lawmaker carried an assault rifle, an AK-47, on to the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates:Virginia Del. Joe Morrissey, a Democrat hailing from the Richmond area,...
View ArticleThe "Obamacare is facism" guy is coming to Chicago
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, is coming to Chicago to promote his new book, Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business: CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).He is...
View ArticleSEC Enforcement Helps Balance the Budget
From the New York Times, this breaking news for Friday afternoon:SAC Fund to Pay $614 Million to Settle Insider Trading CaseTwo affiliates of SAC Capital, the giant hedge fund, settled insider trading...
View ArticleJustice Scalia - Poetic Justice Extraordinaire
Amy Davidson is one of The New Yorker magazine's social observers at large. In her recent "Scalia in Verse", she prepared a poem comprised entirely of the italicized words in selected opinions of noted...
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60 Cases and Counting: What Gun Case Will SCOTUS Take Next?
Two cases are pending this fall which offer the Supreme Court opportunities to delve into Second Amendment rights and the powers of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.The Court's seminal...
View ArticleSanford, FL, to Ban Neighborhood Watchers from Carrying Guns
Police Chief Cecil Smith of Sanford, Florida, where George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin last year, reportedly will soon announce new rules pertaining to Neighborhood Watch...
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