Month: January 2014

Seeger and Dinosaurs at National Review

Pete Seeger’s testimony before the House Un-American Activities is a joy to read. I also enjoyed reading Howard Husack’s strange lament and grudging tribute to Seeger in the National Review. Reading them...

Read More

The Wisest Use of Taxpayers’ Dollars

Sometime in the next decade, every woman who was alive when the Supreme Court issued their Roe v. Wade decision will be past their childrearing age, meaning that no American women who can have children will have ever experienced...

Read More

On New York vs. New Jersey

Even though I have lived in the Philadelphia media market for 12 years, I am still, at heart, a New York City media market kind of guy. And I think that the border between North Jersey and New York City is kind of an arbitrary...

Read More

It Is All The Republicans’ Fault

Last Thursday night, John Boehner appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and admitted that he never thought it was a good idea to shut down the government: “When I looked up, I saw my colleagues going this way. You...

Read More

Goodbye, Pete Seeger

He lived a long life, but I’m sad to see Pete Seeger go anyway. He was one of the good guys. We have too few of them.

Read More