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A horrible front-page report by the Post! 27 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013 As we should have stated: Yesterday, we praised the Washington Post for a front-page report from Sunday’s hard-copy paper. To read that post, click this. We should have note...
EPISTEMIC ENCLOSURES: The toy of race! 27 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013 Part 2—Conned by our favorite toy: For several years, we liberals have battered The Rival Tribe for its “epistemic closure.” (For an account by Paul Krugman, click here.) T...
IN RE Clinton foundation, the Post gets it right! 27 Aug 2013 | 02:05 am
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013 Especially compared to the Times: Two weeks ago, the New York Times published a giant front-page report about the Clinton foundation. The report ran 2961 words. It was accomp...
The types of facts you will and won’t hear! 27 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013 The two Australian miracles: There are certain facts you hear all the time. Other facts which are very basic will get disappeared. In an op-ed column in Sunday’s Washington P...
Debunking another blunder by Dowd! 26 Aug 2013 | 10:16 pm
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013 The Truman Library speaks: Maureen Dowd’s “week that was” was really quite a week! Last Sunday, she wrote a ludicrous column about the vile Clintons, the three millionth such...
EPISTEMIC ENCLOSURES: What holds us back? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013 Part 1—David Gregory’s search: Fifty years after the March on Washington, what is America like? The question may seem large in scope. But yesterday morning, David Gregory sai...
Rachel Maddow may have gotten it right! 24 Aug 2013 | 01:23 am
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013 A fascinatingly naked challenge in the Tarheel State: In the past few years, the analysts have had quite a few complaints about Rachel Maddow’s work. We can’t really say they...
What the heck is a misquotation? 23 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013 Disputatious minds don’t want to know: Maureen Dowd has generated quite a few fake quotations down through the years. Usually, she can at least explain where she was when the...
RODEO CLOWNS: From Rush to Crump! 23 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013 Part 5—Good decent person gets hurt: Rodeo clowns have been driving the right for at least thirty years now. Let’s be clear on what we mean by that statement. We don’t mean ...
Is yawning contagious from people to dogs? 23 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013 How contagious is it: Is yawning contagious from people to dogs? And if so, as Ed McMahon might have asked: “How contagious is it?” We ask because of this short report in ...
