Everywhere across the country, groups are aggressively asserting their rights to carry arms and trying to overturn or roll back existing gun laws. Is it a coordinated movement generously funded by special interests? Or is it a sudden upwelling of collective fear that a Democratic or African-American president may somehow impose stricter gun control? Who […]
This past weekend, a Forbes special list of America’s wealthiest counties dated March 5 made the rounds of Internet news and personal finance websites. The article immediately makes clear that by counties they mean suburban counties. When you click to find out more, you are given the opportunity to look at other Forbes lists, all […]
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Over the past few months we’ve been reading about protests against steep tuition hikes for state universities by students, teachers and other citizens of the sovereign state of California, home of sunshine, freeways and the world’s sixth largest economy. In another part of the world, many Pennsylvania drivers are up in arms that the state […]
Read More… from If you want it, you have to pay for it, and that means higher taxes.
I’ve now had a chance to see a lot of the coverage of the study of marriage and cohabitation among men and women ages 15 to 44 that was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Yesterday I analyzed the coverage in the New York Times, which was schizophrenic in that most of […]
A story on page A14 of today’s New York Times appears to be at war with itself. Or perhaps the editor and writer are at war over what’s really important in the story. As this almost ludicrous tale unwinds, I think we’ll see an ideological prejudice fail at twisting a report into something it’s not—that […]
We’re witnessing a perfect example of how unsubstantiated myths gain credence among the news media, the general public and, unfortunately, our leaders as well. I think you know the kind of myth I’m talking about, but here are some examples of concepts that the news media, elected officials and other leaders promoted as factually correct […]
The Girl Scouts in several states are recalling batches of Lemon Chalet Crème cookies because they taste a little funny. The manufacturer, also sometimes known as a baker, says the cookies are safe but “may contain oils that are breaking down.” Now the Girl Scouts are not calling it a recall, but a “quality withdrawal.” […]
The local Pittsburgh media has reported about a young lady at one of the branches of the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) recently registered a new campus organization, the CCAC branch of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Yes, you heard it right. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus! It’s an organization that wants […]
Every once in a while, I feel the need to do some blog house-cleaning. Let’s start with the windows. The blog has been getting a lot of comments lately, so I thought I should tell readers how we handle them: My assistant Colette reviews each comment and then posts all except those which are pornography […]
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The Associated Press reported yesterday afternoon that “President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday unilaterally creating a bipartisan commission to rein in unruly deficits after Congress rejected a similar body with considerably more enforcement power. As I have said a few times and William Greider details in the January 25 issue of The Nation (posted […]