Anne Applebaum wants to know why responses to swine flu outbreaks vary so widely: How did we get to this point? That is, how did we get to a point where outbreaks treated with the utmost seriousness by the World Health Organization — swine flu has been officially declared a “pandemic” — receive vastly different [...]
A so-called moderate: The issue is not whether Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan committed a terrorist act. He did. Here is a prime example of reporting opinion as fact. Terrorism has a very specific, and legal, definition: (2) the term “terrorism” means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents; [...]
I’m proud to say that the Episcopal Bishop of Newark is unequivocally in favor of marriage equality. He has some interesting things to say about “traditional marriage”: But a closer look shows that the historical tradition of marriage is that of a contract between two men: the groom and the father of the bride. When [...]
After a while, it is necessary to reflect on why one keeps batting out these missives, especially since so few seem to care. Honestly, if a couple dozen people stop by here, then it’s a busy day. While it hasn’t hurt my career at all, it surely hasn’t helped it, either. So why keep doing [...]
The truth is that what happened at Fort Hood yesterday was horrific. It is simply incomprehensible how a Major in the US Army, a psychiatrist who had taken an oath to do no harm, could violate every oath he had ever taken and open fire on his fellow soldiers. It is an act of betrayal [...]
Frank Rich writes that Obama has helped the GOP eat its own: The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom [...]
Back before the Republican was a grand ole anything, the Whig Party ran the role of “honored opposition.” They formed mainly in opposition to what they saw as the autocratic rule of Andrew Jackson (who, no doubt, saw things differently). In general, they favored the legislature over the executive, seeing it as being closer to [...]
