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An Obviously True Point About the NYPD Coward Cop
Adrian Lesher, a staff attorney with the NY Legal Aid Society, writes with the following observation about police abuses-of-power during the Wall Street protests, noting that he's speaking not for...
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What Didn't Get Covered in Philadelphia
Yeah, yeah, I know that there are all sorts of punch-line endings you could give to the headline above. (I'm talking about the city of my birth, so of course I kid because I love.) But here is the...
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The Greatness of Chris Christie
... for having decided, as our National Journal colleagues are reporting just now, not to plunge into the 2012 GOP presidential race. If he entered now he would be late, way behind on...
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Four Aviation Notes, Including Some on TSA and One for Nerds Only
1) Encouraging news, via NASA and Network World, about successful results in the NASA-Google Green Flight Challenge for an ultra-efficient new airplane. The prize of $1.35 million, reportedly the...
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The History of Banking -- Or, a New Meaning for Too Big to Fail
I am not sure exactly where This chart came from Mother Jones* last year, (and will report when I find out), but and as best I can tell the information behind it is true. Worth reflecting on -- and you...
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Steve Jobs
I have no particular standing to speak -- I met him only twice for interviews, once in the early 1980s at Apple, when it had the logo at right, and again in the late 1980s at NeXT -- but wanted to...
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'Taking Stock of the Long Wars': A Proposal
Ten years ago today, U.S. forces began their military action in Afghanistan. American forces have been engaged in Iraq for more than eight and a half years. These are the biggest but not the only...
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Mitt Romney's Swiss-Cheese-Like Foreign Policy 'Strategy'
As I've mentioned after each of the debates and showdowns of the past few months, Mitt Romney plows steadily forward. He doesn't make (many) mistakes. He's well-prepared and briefed. He knows how to...
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Just for the Record: Anti-Mormonism Is Bigotry Too
The front page of the Washington Post today says "Romney pushes aside Mormonism question." (The web version of the story has a different headline.) There is coverage all over the place about this...
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On Robert Gates and his 'More Concerned Than Ever' Speech
Last week I mentioned former SecDef Robert Gates's surprisingly blunt speech at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. In it he said that the United States government, in which he had served almost...
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Placeholder on Mormonism in Politics
My inbox is exploding with email about whether anti-Mormonism, like what the Values Voters Summit heard from a Texas preacher this weekend, is correctly considered "bigotry." As I said it should...
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Important Reads on the Economy
The regular old newspapers -- yes, those unloved dinosaurs of a bygone age -- have been full of some really first-rate articles recently. Or maybe I'm just taking more time to read them. This past...
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Hacked! In the Magazine
The new issue of The Atlantic is out -- say it with me, SUBSCRIBE! The perfect gift! -- and it is really strong, in my view. As the past issue was too. And the one before that. And...I have a long...
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Tonight's GOP Debate
Here is what the past two hours or so boil down to:- Mitt Romney has greatly increased his lead over everyone else, at least in the "rational" primary. - He has become objectively good at debating and...
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A Modest Proposal: Call Obstruction What It Is
(See UPDATE below) Here is the headline in the online home page of the NYT, about Obama's "pass this jobs bill, pass it now" proposal. Note the word "fails":The subhead and the rest of the article make...
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Quick Points on Gmail Security
At the end of my article in the current issue (Subscribe! TM) about the devastating hack of my wife's Gmail account, I promise a detailed online how-to about password generation and other handy...
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Chronicles of False Equivalence, Chapter 2,817
Yesterday I mentioned that a NYT headline proclaimed that the Obama Administration's jobs bill had "failed" in the Senate, even though more senators voted for the bill than against. What really...
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One More Note on 'False Equivalence' and the Filibuster
I don't mean to run this into the ground, but -- well, actually I do mean to run it into the ground. This week's news really is a perfect distillation of a long-standing problem we generally just...
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'False Equivalence' Reaches Onionesque Heights, but in a Real Paper
I've heard angrily from a number of reporters in the last few days. They are objecting to my claims that mainstream journalism is "enabling" Senate dysfunction by describing it as dysfunction plain and...
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If You Had Watched Tonight's GOP Debate
(See updates below.) Here is what you would know.- Herman Cain is a likeable figure (IMHO), but he did a very bad job of defending his 9-9-9 plan against an entirely foreseeable all-hands attack in the...
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