Why is Jim Bunning blocking the extension of unemployment benefits? “Excuse me. This is a ‘Senator Only’ elevator.” Maybe he wants to savor the experience. After all, he won’t be riding that elevator much longer. more about "Bunning: No Excuse", posted with vodpod
Harry Reid has just issued a press release complaining about Senator Jim Bunning’s lunatic filibuster against the extension of unemployment benefits to those suffering through this awful recession. A press release. I will not link to it: you could probably write it yourselves, if you had a degree in phony political vitriol and free-range gaseosity. [...]
There is what looks like good news and bad news in the new Pew poll on American media consumption. Sixty three percent of respondents agree with the phrase, “Major news organizations today do a good job covering all of the important news stories and subjects that matter to me.” (The good.) But 72 percent also [...]
During the month of January, more soldiers committed suicide (24) than were killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan and Iraq combined (16). This is unusual, but–amazingly–not unique. In fact, the problem of military suicides is growing much worse, as Army Chief of Staff George Casey said yesterday in Hawaii. Casey claimed to be mystified by [...]
Writing law from anecdotes is generally a bad idea. Today, we see why in a story buried on page A16 of the New York Times. After a heinous episode in which a 17-year-old girl who was seven months pregnant paid a man to beat her in hopes of inducing a miscarriage, Governor Gary Herbert is [...]
