YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY. Juan Williams has an op-ed piece in the New York Times on the recent Supreme Court decision about school integration programs. Williams’ take can be summarized by this paragraph: And today the argument that school reform should provide equal opportunity for children, or prepare them to live in a […]
J. Goodrich
J. Goodrich is a recovering economist and the sole proprietor of the political blog Echidne of the Snakes. She also blogs for TAPPED.
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RUPERT MURDOCH AND THE MEDIA.
RUPERT MURDOCH AND THE MEDIA. One day those two terms might be used as synonyms for each other. That certainly seems to be Mr. Murdoch‘s dream. He already owns vast acres of the international media landscape, or his News Corporation does(Plug in News Corporation in the search box). But he yearns for more, and that […]
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THEY BURN VILLAGES ABROAD, TOO.
THEY BURN VILLAGES ABROAD, TOO. Ezra‘s post about the conservative view of how a single-payer program in health care would be like darkness just before the dawn of the free-market utopia is funny. But my first thought on reading about this view is that we are not limited to just imagination when we compare different […]
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SADDAM HUSSEIN AND 9/11.
SADDAM HUSSEIN AND 9/11. A Newsweek poll suggests that 41 percent of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein‘s government had a direct role in planning, financing or carrying out the massacres of 9/11. Surprisingly, this number has even inched up 5 percent in the last two years. I want to pull out all my hair […]
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THE DESPISED CONGRESS.
THE DESPISED CONGRESS. A recent Gallup poll tells us that the approval rate for Congress is at its all-time low of 14 percent. The Congress gets low approval rates in general, but this figure is indeed a record. I girded my blogger loins and went out (in a cybersense) on two missions: To find out […]
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SPEAKING LIKE A PREZDENT.
SPEAKING LIKE A PREZDENT. The years of George Bush‘s presidency have changed our expectations about the way presidential candidates should speak. This is why I listened to the Democratic candidates’ speeches in the Take Back America conference from a different place than the usual angle of taking down the points they covered and the points […]
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BLIND JUSTICE.
BLIND JUSTICE. Remember all those statues of justice as a blindfolded woman holding the scales in balance? The reality is just a little bit different. Justice these days might not be quite so blind, especially in the Department of Justice, where the party affiliations of prospective employees have been checked before hiring decisions are made. […]
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TEACHER’S PET.
TEACHER’S PET. That would not be Jonah Goldberg, whose recent article recommending the end of public schools led Ezra to point out that many of Goldberg’s preferred alternatives don’t do even as well as the public schools in Washington, D.C. And those public schools are indeed not doing well as Goldberg states: HERE’S A GOOD […]
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DAVID BROOKS ON THE NEXT CULTURE WAR.
DAVID BROOKS ON THE NEXT CULTURE WAR. David Brooks rarely disappoints me when I want a very creative interpretation of sociological trends. Today he tells us that the next culture wars will be between the “cosmopolitan elites” and the salt-of-the-earth common people, and the battle arena will be immigration. In his view, those of us […]
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THE FORCED BIRTH MOVEMENT
THE FORCED BIRTH MOVEMENT. Reading about Sam Brownback‘s speech at the National Catholic Men’s Conference made selecting a title for this post difficult, but finally I chose the same headline as Cliff Schechter. Among the many I considered (A Taste of Wahhabism, A Preview of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, Catholic Boys’ Treehouses, Every Sperm Is […]
