… Frum Forum's Managing Editor Noah Kristula-Green will be on the show's panel. Also on the panel for the January 1st show will be Errol Lewis, Political Editor of New York 1 ; Amanda Marcotte, a Contributor to Slate & The Guardian , and Michael Brendan Dougherty, Political Editor…
…the most thorough debunking of Australia's blame-the-pommiebastards myth you are likely to read, written in a style at once lively and learned, by a bold Australian historian, Nigel Davies - and published in Canada, by Canadians. Good history writing is always a good thing. But the Dorchester…
…cheerleading. They shouldn’t. It’s unprofessional and wears thin. But that doesn’t mean Most did wrong. You wouldn’t want boxers to mimic Muhammad Ali’s obnoxious predictions-in-verse or pitchers to talk to the baseball like Mark Fidyrich, but we’re grateful for Ali and Fidyrich.…
…being a jerk. Speaker Boehner has a close-to-perfect voting record on conservative issues, is not terribly warm in person (heck, Newt comes across better) and has proposed a good, tough spending cut plan. But he has also demonstrated a modicum of willingness to work with the president and…
…interest in preventing abortions in cases--late term abortions--where there's little room for scientific doubt that the fetus is a viable human life. If the federal government has any function at all, furthermore, it has a clear responsibility to protect life when the states are unable or…
As the gold market tumbles , time to recall: even if the price of gold had remained high forever, people who trusted in Glenn Beck would still have been cruelly cheated . I'm trying to recall a worse case of media ethics malpractice than Glenn Beck and Goldline, but thus far I draw a…
…was deducted from his pay (so Joe's 2010 W-2 showed $108,000 Medicare wages and $106,800 taxable wages). So, what was Joe's effective tax rate last year? In order to determine it, we need to calculate both the total taxes and total compensation. The latter needs to include not only all…
…trades as a way to make a statement. That's simply not a sensible way to invest. A great many Americans are paying a steep price - and may pay a much steeper price yet - for allowing hucksters and ideologues to sway their economic judgment.
…notably the much-maligned concept of cap-and-trade—should not be considered job-killers but life-savers. There’s a part of me that understands why libertarian pundits seem to have so much scorn for those who support state action to combat carbon emissions. Modern libertarianism is…
…been disclosed is information that the enemy --i.e. the Taliban and al-Qaeda -- were quite aware. Julian Assange does not seem very admirable, but nor he doesn’t seem much of a threat to security. One wonders if charges against him are real, or if they are manufactured to punish him for…
