Many years ago, just after the end of Reagan’s first term, I was listening to a local Talk Radio host, Ronn Owens, doing a sort of “summing up” of the Reagan administration so far. He brought up Reagan’s question, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” and he said, “I gotta tell ya. Yes, I am. And everyone I know is better off too ( Read more... )

Voice off Camera: You have to leave her the opportunity to answer the question

Congressman John Shimkus: I do NOT have to allow her to answer the question!

...Allowing her to make her calm and reasoned points would screw up my role as a brilliant attorney cross-examining an increasingly flustered and recalcitrant witness!

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Classic mansplaining ( Read more... )

I circled back to Phillip Burton Park because I wanted to take one more look at that statue. Phillip Burton was an old school liberal, tough, irascible, a hard drinker and eater who, one evening in 1982, dropped dead from a burst blood vessel in the room he shared with his wife at the St. Francis Drake Hotel on Powell Street. He was only 57. It ( Read more... )

Bill Pascrell,to Republicans during Obamacare hearing: What are you going to do about the approximately 17 million children with pre-existing conditions who can no longer be denied health insurance coverage? You want to go back? You want to say, “You are no longer covered any longer?” You gonna tell the parents of those kids? Which one of you is ( Read more... )

Ted Cruz: The difference with Green Eggs and Ham, is that when Americans tried it they discovered they did not like Green Eggs and Ham and they did not like Obamacare either. They did not like Obamacare in a box with a fox in a house or with a mouse.

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The most insightful reaction to Cruz’ invocation of Dr. Seuss I’ve read so far comes from ( Read more... )

The first inkling I had of it (this time around) was in the comments section of Salon, which was also one of the first outlets I saw reporting on the confiscation of tampons and sanitary pads at the demonstrations in Texas the other day. The rationale offered - apparently by someone unclear on either the physics of throwing or the actual weight of ( Read more... )

From an unsigned editorial in the Wall Street Journal: Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Chile's Augusto Pinochet, who took power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy.
The anonymous writers of this piece know perfectly well what they are saying and what ( Read more... )

Adam Kokesh: We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide. This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent. Should we meet ( Read more... )

As an incurable bleeding-heart, I’m always on the lookout for someone suffering, and that includes people with whom I disagree. The sight of human pain should cause us all to put aside our differences. Megyn Kelly is suffering right here, on national television.She’s thrown this Fox News Alert about presumably explosive remarks from Attorney ( Read more... )

From an article in The Wall Street Journal, by Rachel Emma Silverman:

A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges for a few weeks with tiny sensors to record their movements and the tone of their conversations ( Read more... )