In response to ‘Homeland,’ ‘Rockford’ and Why I Love the 13-Episode Arc: I was less troubled by the politics of “Homeland” than John S., but the plot was ridiculous, especially season two. “SNL” captured the show’s contrivances perfectly… I hadn’t
In response to It Only Gets Worse, John: I agree with you about the nature of story. The show that comes to mind is Lost. They decided to tell dozens of small stories but they only had one way to
I am going to give some big spoilers for Season 1 of “Homeland” so skip the rest of this post if you haven’t seen it. A few weeks ago I ordered Season 1 of “Homeland” on Blu-ray. Finally finished watching
I’ve published this once but I think it’s worth re-emphasizing. This is a bit wonky but it’s really important so please stick with me. In April 2011 President Obama proposed his own deficit reduction plan. In that plan he defined,
The GOP video team posted this clip of Sen. Harkin reassuring the nation that, despite our $16 trillion in debt, growing entitlements and massive deficits, we are not broke: This argument sounded so familiar, but it took me a moment
In response to John: The Tesla S does look like a beautiful car. I would happily take the car for a test drive if Tesla wanted to offer. But it strikes me as similar to a lot of $100K cars:
Tuesday I wrote about the public spat between Tesla’s co-founder Elon Musk and John Broder, a writer for the NY Times. Broder wrote a negative story about Tesla’s $100k electric sports car (the Model S) and Musk responded by accusing
Kevin Drum was for universal pre-k long before it made it into the President’s State of the Union speech this week. Today he has a post at Mother Jones titled “The Biggest Value of Pre-K Can’t Be Found in Test
It appears energy policy in New York state is now being guided by Yoko Ono. Gov. Cuomo has once again delayed a decision on whether or not to allow fracking in New York, a decision which garnered him a pat
A Swedish TV special recently examined threats directed at high profile women, including journalists, actors, authors, etc. The special made the argument that the problem was so severe it led to self-censorship by those who decided voicing their opinion just
A friend sent me a link to this Yahoo News article ostensibly praising the White House app. Yes, apparently there is an app that gets all the media content being produced by the White House. As the review goes on
The Guardian has an interesting graphic showing the duration and reading level of every SOTU since the nation’s founding. I can’t paste it here because it’s interactive so you’ll have to click over and take a look. It seems that
In response to Priorities, priorities: Yes it would be terrible if the country missed Obama’s 16th pivot to the economy. And I’m sure we’re all excited to hear about his “balanced approach” for the 27th time. Personally I’m looking for
Last week, New York Times reporter John Broder took a top of the line Tesla Model S for a road trip from Washington DC up Interstate 95 to Connecticut. The trip started out fine, but as the weather got cold, the
Occupy Harvard, like the rest of the Occupy movement, came and went abruptly. For a few months it turned Harvard Yard into a squatters camp until one particularly windy day last January when it all came down. This winter the
Budget charts created by the House Progressive Caucus are being touted as proof that deficit reduction has been heavy on cuts and light on revenue. In fact, they prove that the President has gotten a better deal than the one
In response to White House rules out raising Medicare eligibility age: In case you missed it yesterday, the White House’s announcement of the debt ceiling deal (which created the sequester as a motivator toward cuts) said the bipartisan commission would
Can the President possibly believe that the Grand Bargain he proposed less than two years ago is somehow a raw deal? He is acting as if that’s the case. Progressives are once again claiming the problem in deficit negotiations is
There’s a clever loaves and fishes trick going on with today’s major anti-GOP narrative. It begins with a sequester story Politico published last night. The story opens with the splashy claim, “Republicans open to letting billions in sequester cuts go
Illinois has the worst debt rating in the US thanks to out-of-control union pensions and health care costs. And yet, police unions in Chicago are asking for consecutive 6 percent annual raises plus a cost of living adjustment: Union president
Those who believe government run health care is preferable to being at the mercy of rapacious insurance companies need to focus on what is happening in the UK this week. A new report offers a glimpse of substandard care which
In response to SPLC’s “Hate” Map Doesn’t List FRC Shooter: Here’s the NY Times story on Christopher Dorner. The authors devote a little space to his “manifesto”: The 6,000-word manifesto was bristling with anger and explicit threats,naming two dozen police
Ace has some thoughts on the Floyd Corkins/SPLC issue over at his site. Actually, he goes beyond the current issue to shed some light on the media response to all of these incidents of political violence. The whole thing is
CNN is very concerned about Chris Christie’s health. They asked a former White House doctor–one who has never met or examined Christie–to comment and she suggested he could drop dead in office. This led to a calm but firm “shut
According to a story at the Examiner, attempted mass shooter Floyd Lee Corkins told the FBI he picked his targets off the Souther Poverty Law Center website: He told the FBI that he wanted to kill anti-gay targets and went
