… "I come to praise Hitch, not to bury him ..." Upon hearing the news of his passing a strange myriad of thoughts crossed my mind. I say strange, because it is strange for me not to have clarity of thought. Focus, planning and the gathering of facts and data for analysis and processing…
…by the hour.” The immediate trigger is a breakdown in trade relations with the United Arab Emirates - but obviously there's a lot more going on. And this is before the central bank sanctions of Menendez-Kirk begin to bite. It really may be possible to change Iran without war.
…seem more like Walter Mondale than Bill Clinton. Invective-fueled class warfare might be helpful at the margins, but America is still, despite a decade of trials, an optimistic nation. It would seem out of touch indeed for Obama, not exactly a poor man himself, to be complaining about Romney's…
…to US politics that it is debts and deficits that caused the slump, rather than the other way around. For the moment, it's all farcical. It could easily turn tragic.
…because of the way I can be identified with him...both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.” Amidst the accumulating policy failures of a stimulus that failed to stimulate, Solyndra loans and 'Fast and Furious' arms trades,…
…world. That’s the good news. The bad news is another Son is also rising...
…that I and my peers read and discussed it in U.S. History and Civics classes many times in subsequent years, both in high school and as an undergraduate and graduate student. We learned that Marbury was a watershed moment, “a big friggin’ deal,” we might call it today. And it has served…
…indefinite.” United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 552 (1995)(striking down the Gun Free School Zone Act because it was outside Congress’ delegated powers to enact)(internal citation to The Federalist omitted). Nancy Pelosi was asked where the Constitution authorized the Obama Health…
… for about 750 positions as a new Cleveland casino. The deluge of applications made for good TV and appeared on dozens of websites. Only one problem: dramatic as they are, the long lines of job seekers for a hotel are meaningless for a hotel or big casino are meaningless. (The Cleveland…
…slow recovery happen in the first place. Inequality has been rising for decades for most Americans in the form of stagnating incomes for the majority and sky-rocketing incomes for those at the very top. When income stopped growing, families responded by working more and borrowing more.…
