The Stopped Clock

Political discussion and ranting, premised upon the fact that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Monday, July 08, 2013

Believe it or Not, People Eat More Than Once Per Year

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Charles Lane proposes abolishing "the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps", and tran...
Saturday, July 06, 2013

Washington Post and Student Loan Interest: "Don't Punish Our Gravy Train"

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The editorial board for Kaplan, Inc. the Washington Post is extremely concerned about the increase in student loan interest rates: With t...
Monday, July 01, 2013

If Republicans Obstruct Voting Rights, They Can't Pin the Consequence on Roberts

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Ross Douthat purports , If you believe Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.’s more overheated liberal critics, last week’s Supreme Court decisio...

Is the Zimmerman Case a Recipe for a Miscarriage of Justice

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In one sense, there can be no question but that the Zimmerman prosecution is a recipe for at least a perception of a miscarriage of justic...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Movement Toward Gay Marriage and the Myth of Roe v. Wade

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Although I rarely find Charles Krauthammer to make a meaningful contribution to a public discussion, and his column on the DOMA decision is...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Obesity as a Disease

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In the Washington Post, Esther J. Cepeda asks what to me seems to be an odd question about obesity: Is obesity truly a disease that requi...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Fake Presidential Scandals, Then and Now

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Paul Krugman suggests an explanation for why the Clinton-era fake scandals kept on going, while similar efforts to build fake scandals inv...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Draft, National Service, and National Unity

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A couple of days ago, Michael Gerson seemed to have one of those "the well is dry" moments when he had nothing much to say about ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The Easiest (But Least Useful) Thing to Do About Syria is to Complain About Obama

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These days, it's difficult to escape hearing lectures directed at the Obama Administration about what it should do in Syria. Many of th...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

John McCain's Thoughtless Militarism

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I was reading about John McCain's views on whether or not we should intervene in Syria and couldn't help but note that he simultane...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Michigan's Legislature vs. That Democracy Thing

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One of Gov. Snyder's comments that caught my attention was, in essence , "I supported cramming a 'right to work' law throu...
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Rick Snyder's Missing "C"

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Gov. Snyder believes that the state needs to make an effort to attract talented workers to Michigan: "There are three 'Cs' tha...
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