Monthly Archives: November 2012

The Washington Monthly has a story about the Obama administration trying, and failing, to challenge the power of the oligopoly of poultry distributors created by Reagan-era redefinitions of antitrust doctrine. Although this redefinition has resulted in cheap meat, it has … Continue reading →

Jeffrey Goldberg thinks it’s illogical for the New York Times to consider actual body counts when assessing the moral justifications for war: [T]he [Times] editorial states the following, in an effort to suggest that the Hamas threat is not quite … Continue reading →

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about Rolling Jubilee: [Occupy Wall Street] is going to start buying distressed debt (medical bills, student loans, etc.) in order to forgive it…. If you’re a debt broker, once you own someone’s debt … Continue reading →

This isn’t news, exactly, given that the claims involved are more than a decade old. But the producers of “Girls Gone Wild” bought and used images and video of a fourteen-year-old flashing her breasts, and the young woman, now 26, … Continue reading →

David Simon, famously cantankerous creator of The Wire and Treme thinks the press should stop covering “the sex lives of the famous”: Hypocrisy will never go out of style in American journalism or American life. But sitting there and watching … Continue reading →

By Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal, who writes: Fellow conservatives, please stop obsessing about what other adults might be doing in their bedrooms, so long as it’s lawful and consensual and doesn’t impinge in some obvious way on … Continue reading →

In an 8-3 en banc ruling last week, the Seventh Circuit gave the government broad immunity from suits based on claims of torture, even by American citizens, according to the Washington Post: Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel filed a lawsuit … Continue reading →

The Daily Show opens its special edition on President Obama’s first four years with a pretty harsh, but pretty fair, roundup of the President’s civil liberties/anti-terrorism flipflops. Only about seven minutes, and worth seeing.

First, CNN’s exit polls from the election indicate that 65% of voters think that “Most illegal immigrants working in U.S. should be offered legal status.” Second, according to Rasmussen’s Energy Update, 68% of likely voters now say that “global warming … Continue reading →

The excellent history podcast Backstory with the American History Guys recently rebroadcast an episode about the history of the national debt. It was one I hadn’t heard before, and it’s excellent. I highly recommend you take a listen. If this … Continue reading →