[EDITOR’S NOTE: Just before winter break began, Mr. Luskin informed me that he had an outstanding story in the works, but remained coy, refusing to tell me any details. Eight days ago, after two months had gone by without hearing anything...
March 12, 2010 12:01 pm / 1 comment
"Me retire? What a laugh"
At the health care summit, Republican Senator Eric Cantor used the 2,400-page Senate health care bill and the White House’s 11-page proposal as props in his discussion. One was too short, apparently; the...
February 28, 2010 8:22 pm / no comments
When Glenn Beck asked Palin about her favorite founding father, she responded with an answer so bad that he had to call “bullcrap” in the middle of it:
Palin and Fox News make a great couple: Fox gives her an audience and Palin draws more...
February 15, 2010 1:44 am / no comments
Congratulations, Somalia. You’ve done better than the United States.
November 20 marked the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Marking that day, the government of Somalia promised to ratify...
December 6, 2009 5:35 pm / 1 comment
It was midday and cloudy. I had just passed the library and was walking to a class when I saw the cage. A person in uniform was walking around the perimeter of a chain-link fence as people inside tried to look oppressed. “Oh,” I thought,...
November 29, 2009 1:07 am / no comments
The voters of Maine took away the right to marry, as the tyranny of the majority strikes again. It’s truly disturbing that fundamental human rights are being decided by popular opinion.
Let’s meet the most prominent opponent of Homo...
November 20, 2009 9:15 pm / no comments