Ian Ayres writes on the Freakonomic blog that classic racial discrimination is alive and well, at least with regard to tips to service providers like waiters and cabbies. Blacks both got lower tips, and gave lower tips, than their white… Continue Reading
Bill Schneider at CNN has just now figured out that it’s functionally impossible for Hillary Rodham Cllinton to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for President; he computes that she would need somewhere between 60% to 66% of the remaining delegates… Continue Reading
Mike Huckabee was interviewed this morning on Joe Scarborough’s morning show on MSNBC. Scarborough, and his co-anchor, whoever she is, fail to impress and Scarborough simply can’t help but be a nasty partisan. Huckabee, however, has some really interesting things… Continue Reading
I was pretty cynical about the Big Speech On Race today. Seemed to me that Obama had been maneuvered into the issue and that having repudiated the statements of his own pastor should have ended the whole Jeremiah Wright issue,… Continue Reading
I really haven’t paid a ton of attention to the Jeremiah Wright story that I still think is going to go away pretty quickly. And I took the weekend off blogging to be lazy. But if you’re hungry for commentary… Continue Reading
A really good online interview with Newt Gingrich. Worth a read, whether you’re liberal or conservative. In particular, Gingrich offers his take on the “Republican Reboot” theme I and many others have been writing about — he thinks that social… Continue Reading
I’ve always liked David Mamet (the writer). He hits hard and he isn’t afraid to use profanity. I mean, he really isn’t afraid to use profanity. Nor is he afraid to walk headlong into a minefield and produce something that… Continue Reading
Almost ten years ago, The Onion ran a famous piece of satire, about how the success of advancing the “homosexual agenda” in public schools had increased “gay recruitment.” I’d be willing to believe that this piece of news parody has… Continue Reading
…Arkansas Republicans have been unable to find a candidate who will oppose the re-election bid of Democratic freshman Senator Mark Prior. This is actually less surprising than one might think. Yes, Arkansas is a conservative state. It voted for native… Continue Reading
Before the Emperor’s Club VIP website got taken down, reporters from the Fish Wrapper got some screen grabs of pages advertising the various “models” whose companionship was offered. The rates are on page six of the screen grabs — you… Continue Reading