Remarks from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, at a town hall meeting. “This is not about teachers, this is about the union.”
Holy cow. The Wisconsin Democrat is calling it quits:
In a major blow to Democrats, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey has told close associates that he will not seek re-election and an announcement of his plans is expected as early as Wednesday.
The Wisconsin Democrat faces tough poll numbers at …
Apparently, the political system is “broken” because the political system no longer wants Charlie Crist. Good to know.
Can you trust the police? What about the courts? The answer may depend on whether or not they think anyone is watching.
Last March, after the University of Maryland men’s basketball team beat Duke, students spilled out into College Park to celebrate. That brought out the riot police. In footage captured by several students …
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to learn that Adam already knows about this theory. But it was news to me and fairly fascinating to boot.
I just finished Richard Friedman’s Who Wrote the Bible? It’s a classic popularization of the Documentary Hypothesis, which claims that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the …
I admit. I’m still intrigued by Sarah Palin. I’m not convinced that she’s the blithering idiot that so many of my peers see. Nor am I convinced that she’s the great conservative / libertarian hope that many others see. But I’m definitely intrigued by anyone who can attract as much attention as she has attracted.
That’s …
How was I supposed to know I should take a magazine with this cover seriously? [by Adam Volle]
It’s been a pretty big surprise to me that one of the few magazines out there still interested in shedding some real light on how things work today in Washington D.C. is RollingStone. I mean, yeah, they were cool enough to print stuff from P.J. O’Rourke, but those were basically humor columns. Yet …