J. P. Freire
More than a year ago, two Prince George’s County police officers dressed in riot gear attacked University of Maryland student John J. McKenna during the post-game celebrations of a basketball game. The officers have finally been indicted and charged with…
There may be 15,000 lawyers who “could be using their legal expertise to help some of those who need representation” with “with financial support from government and the legal profession,” reports an editorial from the New York Times (without citation,…
Slate has just gone through a round of layoffs, which makes me wonder if Slate editor Jacob Weisberg is willing to reconsider this graf from a piece titled “Libertarianism is Dead:” The argument as a whole is reminiscent of wearying…
When President Obama pledged to oppose an individual mandate, push a public option, bring the troops home and close down Guantanamo Bay, he was clearly pandering to the anti-War left. But after election, his reluctance to follow through on these…
According to Match.com insiders, conservatives are more open-minded to dating someone outside their political circle than liberals. This insight comes from a Financial Times report appearing in Slate, in which Amarnath Thombre, an engineer at Match who works on their…
There are plenty of things to love about Washington, D.C.’s “transitioning” H Street neighborhood, like Granville Moore’s, a Belgian mussel joint with a spectacular beer selection. But H Street wasn’t always this way. In fact, it was a pretty murky…
One of the more noxious parts of higher education policy is the almost moralistic way in which people tell stories about the people who do go to college versus those who do not. Catherine Rampbell stumbles into this line of…
Bill Clinton, Peronist or pragmatist? From Politico‘s Morning Money: FLASH: CLINTON WOULD INVOKE THE 14TH – Former President Bill Clinton told National Memo’s Joe Conason last night that if he were still in office and all else failed he would…
From Joe Weisenthal at BusinessInsider, another rant from Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn: The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard…
One thing’s for sure: Elizabeth Warren has been confirmed to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the media (and no one else). How else to explain why it is that the press has eagerly latched onto Warren as not…
