Month: November 2011

Philly Occupy Camps Busted Up

Mayor Nutter busted up the #OccupyPhilly encampments last night at about one in the morning. It wasn’t any great surprise. He had set a 5pm deadline on Sunday for the protesters to leave or face arrest. There was a little...

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Learning from Votes on Amendments

Sen. Rand Paul introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act that would have struck the Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq from the books. It got thirty votes. The Roll Call might surprise you. I know...

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That Bell Curve Crap — Again

I understand the fascination with certain white people wanting to justify their political agenda through insisting that African Americans are genetically pre-determined to be less intelligent than whites. Andrew Sullivan is...

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Serious Questions

Assuming for the moment that Herman Cain will shortly end his fake campaign for president in order to make some effort at repairing his domestic life, am I right in assuming this is bad news for Mitt Romney? Isn’t his best...

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