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June 2014

June 03, 2014
I don't have anything to offer in terms of insights into the Bowe Bergdahl swap....
June 03, 2014
(This is where it would be really helpful to have more readers, say, by an...
June 03, 2014
"The Other McCain" linked today to an article in The Atlantic with five predictions about...
June 02, 2014
So the other day I connected an article claiming that same-sex marriage would be a...
June 02, 2014
So I was thinking about the "morals clause" issue some more.One of the schools whose...
June 02, 2014
For those of you who don't recognize the reference, that's a series of kids' books,...
June 01, 2014
The reporting at CNN on a revised "morals clause" for the teachers at Catholic schools...

May 2014

May 31, 2014
In Illinois, the voters have a very limited ability to place legislation on the ballot...
May 30, 2014
Here you go:  GooBing Detroit
May 30, 2014
(Trying my hand at something different tonight.)No, he's not the kind of car guy that...
May 30, 2014
Just a quick late-lunch comment on an article in today's Tribune, "At dawn of same-sex...
May 30, 2014
Here's a story, from drudge, about Sacramento taxi drivers facing, among other things, an English...
May 30, 2014
To read more fully later:  "Sweden has lots of wealth inequality" from marginalrevolution.com.  Interesting points:...
May 29, 2014
So here's a "Daily Caller" article on Eric Cantor's primary challenger Dave Brat, who is...
May 28, 2014
So a while back some psychologist or sociologist declared that his research definitively proved that...
May 27, 2014
"FAA's hiring diverts from recruit pipeline; Air traffic control jobs going to general public over...
May 26, 2014
That's a throw-away line you hear periodically:  we need a Marshall Plan in the inner...
May 25, 2014
OK, so everyone's talking about Ta-Nehesi Coates' "The Case for Reparations."  And it's fun to...
May 25, 2014
Everyone's writing about trigger warnings -- that is, the idea that bloggers, journalists, professors and...
May 24, 2014
Every now and again I try an "open thread" type of post, with varying degrees...
May 24, 2014
So a faithful reader, Peter Hurley, referred me to an article he's written on "Opening...
May 23, 2014
This, from Kaiser Health News via the Chicago Tribune:A pair of potent new drugs can...
May 22, 2014
So this is in the category of "a solution in search of a problem," but...
May 22, 2014
The good news:  Michael Madigan and Pat Quinn do not yet have the votes to...
May 20, 2014
(I'm currently reading The Anguish of the Jews, and will augment my prior post on...
May 19, 2014
So the other day I linked to a CNN report on a Sudanese Christian woman...
May 16, 2014
So usually when I do these "from the library" posts, it's a book on politics,...
May 16, 2014
Rain poncho-clad demonstrators demanding $15-an-hour pay circled the McDonald's with signs and chanted in Spanish,...
May 15, 2014
From CNN, a Sudanese woman, the daughter of a Muslim man, has been sentenced to...
May 15, 2014
Remember the first season of Survivor?  Rich, Kelly, and Rudy formed an alliance and made...
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