Ross Douthat has the right idea. A lot of what passes for “centrist” ideas in Washington is self-serving Senators in both parties splitting the difference between two competing sides and declaring victory in their...
David Leonhardt and Ezra Klein had a smart article and responding blog post today about how the debate in Washington is being skewed, fueled in part by the anti-tax movement (typified by an intellectually...
Rachel Maddow explains the latest Big Labor priority, the Employee Free Choice Act: I will readily admit some frustration with unions, but much of my concerns are true of any organization – that corruption...
Chris Matthews totally kicked the ass of a brain-dead frat boy on national television last night: Of course, when I mean “frat boy”, I mean the over-hyped stereotype of an intellectually lazy, gregarious, loud,...
Alright, so one of my pet peeves about modern campaigns – and especially modern media coverage of those campaigns – is the relentless obsession over the horserace numbers in polling. Rarely do individual numbers...
From the idiots covering politics for ABC News to the more respected pundits and bloggers like Taegan Goddard, everyone misses a key point about polls. Take Goddard’s latest post about a Zogby poll: A...
The National Journal, an insider statistics-gatherer on Congress, has published its political rankings for 2005 of members of Congress. If you recall, John Kerry got tagged as the “most liberal Senator” during the 2004...
The Battle of the Bulge was a critical battle in the war against Hitler's Nazis. Soldiers fought and died every day in the dead of winter. And when a grenade fell into his foxhole, Jim thought he was surely dead. What happened next was nothing short of heroic...
Note: This is based on a true story of the war, as told by the late James C. Kerns.
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Rush Week, immature pranks, and brightly colored shirts. Some people remember their college days as a time of non-stop partying. Others, including a shy freshman with a crush, discover their life’s calling amidst difficult circumstances.
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