The stories of defeated Democratic Senate candidates Alexi Giannoulias, now cloistered in Argentina, and Jack Conway, who’s running for another term as Kentucky’s attorney general, illustrate how emotionally and morally taxing the business of politics on the national stage can be. From the Daily Herald (Via Ben Smith): “It destroys you when people say complete [...]
After Tiananmen, the Communist Party in China unveiled the Student Information System, whose nominal goals were to improve the quality of college and university teaching and increase student involvement in education. “In practice, however, the SIS’s principal objective is to monitor and control teachers and students,” says a new CIA report highlighted by Steve Aftergood [...]
More on Rudy’s ruminations, via a National Review interview with hizzoner about his 2012 prospects. Am I the only one who sees a tension between these two paragraphs? Other potential 2012 hopefuls, Giuliani says, will need to be pressed on health care. “Mitt has to explain RomneyCare — that’s going to be a big issue [...]
Depending on which side you’re listening to during this phase of the health care debate, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is either a deficit-slashing, job-creating wonder or a deficit busting, job-killing disaster. It’s easy to get confused, especially when lawmakers are throwing around numbers that don’t exactly depict reality. The biggest offenders this week were [...]
Keith Olbermann and I started from the same place, the same school, the same English teacher–Arthur Naething–who changed our lives. I’ve always had a soft spot for Keith as a result, even when he called me one of the worst people in the world (based on a wildly inaccurate interpretation of something I’d written). I’ve [...]
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I hate to disappoint you, Massimo, but I think Rudy Giuliani is just having a little fun–and making looking for a little profit. When I wrote in 2009 about Rudy’s long flirtation with running for governor of New York, it looked as though Rudy was mainly interested in free media to rehabilitate his reputation after [...]
The number of the day: 14. That’s the percentage point increase in the unfavorability rating for Sarah Palin among independents, as measured by the New York Times/CBS poll (pdf) between November of 201o and this week. As it now stands, just 17 percent of independents have a favorable view of the former Alaskan governor. Overall, [...]
