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Relevance: 13% Posted on: December 31, 2018
In recent years there has been a great burgeoning of public debate about ideas. Politics. Ethics. UFOs. You name it. This “burgeoning” has mostly taken place online. Some people are so good at it that they have made their whole livings at it, parlaying advertisements and donations into successful careers.…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: April 2, 2014
Increasing public debt is bad for a number of reasons. Journalist Matthew Yglesias, speaking on vox.com, gives voice to a very different, more Pollyannish perspective: “Debt is just not a problem right now,” he says. Why? “The U.S. can never run out of dollars.” After all, the Fed can just…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: May 8, 2023
“Prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to charge President Biden’s son Hunter with tax- and gun-related violations,” The Washington Post reports. Last October, the paper disclosed that, after a four-year investigation, federal agents had “gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him.” Hunter Biden’s failure to honestly…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: December 28, 2017
Paul Jacob, December 3, 2017 No one seems especially shocked. Last week on WAMU, the National Public Radio affiliate that broke the story, the Washington Post’s Robert McCartney called it “fraudulent” and “a terrible embarrassment.” But he quickly added, “It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise, though, to anybody…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: September 8, 2018
Paul Jacob In the fourth season of Showtime’s Weeds, drug smugglers use a tunnel connecting border towns in California and Mexico, with the American side of the tunnel opening up under a maternity shop. Yet when a drug-smuggling tunnel was found, last month, connecting a defunct Arizona KFC to a…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 3, 2018
Welcome, Townhall readers: for more links, go to our splash page for this column. Paul Jacob Our upcoming biennial exercise of democracy is not just a matter of choosing between the crooked liar and the racist thief. Aside from filling any number of federal, state and local offices, there will…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: May 7, 2014
Government of, by and for the people. Yeah, right. If government were “of, by and for” us — as President Lincoln spoke so eloquently over the fallen at Gettysburg — well, for starters, we’d have term limits. Especially in Illinois. The Land of Lincoln has sadly become the nation’s capital…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 26, 2019
What part should we play in terror, torture, oppression? Asking for a friend. Well, friends . . . some three-hundred-and-thirty million of them. Egypt. The government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi just stormed the newsroom of one of Egypt’s few remaining independent media outlets, Mada Masr. “Mada has shown nothing…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: April 12, 2016
The usual cycle of political disillusion is compressing. We can now have our illusions eroded almost instantly, no waiting. This election year is unusual in a myriad of ways — not just the surprising success of an avowed socialist on the Democratic side and a billionaire businessman leading on…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: October 8, 2012
Americans are obviously divided on the current presidential race. We disagree, too, on a whole range of social and economic issues. But we remain firmly united when it comes to one straightforward political reform: term limits. Since 1990, when voters in California, Colorado and Oklahoma passed the first statewide ballot…