Jeremy Lott
The most disturbing part of Politico‘s first book publishing project is probably the thing about the nuns. About half way into their short e-book “The Right Fights Back,” co-authors Mike Allen and Evan Thomas give Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager…
What do you do when the president, vice president, and first and second ladies won’t stop harassing you? Before the last election, I signed up for updates from the Barack Obama campaign. They proceeded to spam me with e-mails, which…
Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America by Daniel J. Flynn (ISI Books, 224 pages, $27.95) It took your humble scribe two goes to get through Blue Collar Intellectuals, Daniel Flynn’s latest uneven but ultimately quite…
LYNDEN, Washington — Last week, I stopped into Extremes Sports Grill & Pizzeria to talk to the man who very well may end up running my own little corner of the Evergreen State. Every Tuesday leading up to the election,…
Taken as a whole, Reflections of a Political Economist is a fine collection of essays. But if you want to get an idea of the esteem William “Bill” Niskanen was held in at the Cato Institute, go ahead and skip…
The curtain for The Mighty Macs rises with Cathy Rush (played by a surprisingly blonde Carla Gugino) driving her VW Bus through the Pennsylvania countryside to interview for the basketball coach position at the Catholic girls-only Immaculata College. The radio…
LYNDEN, Washington — Saturday night, as the Northwest Washington Fair was winding down its six-day run, gunshots disturbed the peace of my small town. One early observer said that over the din of the Fair the shots sounded like balloons…
LYNDEN, Washington — Seattle is a city that cares deeply about music but you wouldn’t know it from listening to the radio. The I-5 corridor from roughly Everett to Portland is a sonic desert on the FM dial. Your humble…
On Good Friday, the hours between noon and 3 o’clock have traditionally been reserved for the faithful to reflect on Jesus Christ’s great suffering on the cross. Churches encourage prayer, reflection, and silence. Your humble scribe is not good at…
President Obama today said that Republicans “will raise taxes, and so will I. They won’t tell you. I just did.” Wait, no, that’s not quite right. Walter Mondale said it in 1984. (I’ve swapped “Republicans” in for “Mr. Reagan.”) How…
