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I’m not sure what I’m expecting from the New York Times nowadays. When a newspaper asks whether…
I didn’t want to really weigh in too much about the idiotic controversy that sprung up around…
In the cable news world everyone wants to seem like they’re fair and balanced. CNN makes fun…
Ted Cruz is magic. Not only was he one of the reasons that the country was on…
If you Google the name Semyon Varlamov, the first hit you come across will probably involve his less-than-stellar performance as a goalie for the Russian Federation during last month’s Winter Olympics. Like this story from Sports Illustrated: When Semyon Varlamov was yanked in Russia’s final hockey game at the Sochi Olympics after allowing three goals…
In late 1999 or early 2000, the Chicago Tribune compiled a list of the top 100 Chicago sports moments of the 20th century. Over lunch one day with a conservative friend, I bemoaned the fact that the Tribune had omitted Khalid Khannouchi’s 2:05:42 finish in the 1999 Chicago Marathon, then a world record. Khannouchi was…
As Chicago Blackhawks fans struggled with the existential question of the 22nd Olympic Winter Games–how to root for USA Hockey when the two most Blackhawk-laden (and consequently most successful) teams hailed from Canada and Sweden–a more interesting story passed largely unnoticed here in the States. On Sunday, after Canada (featuring the Blackhawks’ Jonathan Toews,…
When I was a kid, my dad used to play the guitar. He had a reasonably decent six-string acoustic – the same guitar my brother Tom would later cut his teeth on – and he’d play old-timey folk songs like “There’s a Hole in the Bucket” and “Worried Man Blues”. That’s him on his…
The United States Senate failed on Wednesday to confirm Debo Adegbile as the assistant attorney general for civil rights. Adegbile’s nomination will not proceed to the Senate floor for a vote, because seven Democrats joined all of the Senate Republicans in voting 47-52 not to break the Republicans’ filibuster. This is the first judicial nomination that has…
The latest viral news story seems to have a perennial favorite of the American media consumer: a young, entitled woman making big mistakes in public. In New Jersey, an 18-year-old woman has sued her parents for $650 a week in support, high school tuition back pay, college tuition and legal fees. At first glance, the teen’s…
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), decided three cases this week, and one case last week, all of which shed light on several pressing questions in your life and mine. For instance, just how many lies can airline employees can tell about you, if they think you’re suspicious, before you can sue them?…
Human trafficking is a little-known and devastating feature of the U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Third-Country Nationals (TCNs) from developing nations support the U.S. military presence in those and other countries: when you think of peeling potatoes or constructing barracks, you should be picturing TCNs, not PFCs. TCNs are extremely vulnerable: among other things, they…
