Parsing the language of war
Watching coverage of The Three Equivocating Presidents on TV — that is, the recent House Committee on Education hearing that featured testimony from three lofty academics — I found myself
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Watching coverage of The Three Equivocating Presidents on TV — that is, the recent House Committee on Education hearing that featured testimony from three lofty academics — I found myself
It’s gotten to where it’s almost axiomatic in American politics: Show me somebody who gets TV face-time railing against others’ sexual sins, and I’ll show you somebody hiding naughty secrets.
So here’s my advice: If you’re somebody who’s smoking hot about the Big Lie of the Affordable Care Act — you know, how President Obama told everybody that if they liked their current health insurance policy they could keep it — do yourself a favor. Avoid the county fair midway. Because if you go, you’re…
To hear some tell it, the American people are seething mad and they aren’t going to take it anymore. “Why Are People So Cynical and Angry?” one headline writer wants
Here is my big prediction for November 2024: The Arkansas Razorbacks will not lose to Alabama in football.