When not even the New York Times is buying your conspiratorial bullshit anymore, it’s probably time to pack up your stuff, rein in your unwieldy wife, and retire to your cushy pension and your Bulls season tickets: Ever since he raised the issue in his State of the Union speech nearly nine months ago — prompting head-shaking by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. of the Supreme Court — President Obama

Science! Pragmatism!*

“Democrats Are Conflicted Over Black Vote, Obama,” WSJ: Democrats say it is critical that they turn out African American voters this November. But for Robin Carnahan, the party’s nominee for Senate in Missouri, that is proving to be a tricky proposition. The key to energizing black voters is to persuade them that sending Democrats to Washington is important to President Barack Obama, strategists say. The Democratic National Committee plans to

“Democrats Are Conflicted Over Black Vote, Obama,” WSJ: Democrats say it is critical that they turn out African American voters this November. But for Robin Carnahan, the party’s nominee for Senate in Missouri, that is proving to be a tricky proposition. The key to energizing black voters is to persuade them that sending Democrats to Washington is important to President Barack Obama, strategists say. The Democratic National Committee plans to

And the problem with that, naturally, is that woman are being punished. At least, so says Gail Heriot, a professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Twenty years after women became the majority on campus, college administrators are struggling to strike a gender balance even as female applicants outnumber men by nearly 30 percent. Nationally, as at Delaware,

And the problem with that, naturally, is that woman are being punished. At least, so says Gail Heriot, a professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Twenty years after women became the majority on campus, college administrators are struggling to strike a gender balance even as female applicants outnumber men by nearly 30 percent. Nationally, as at Delaware,

Settled science? If so, I guess any political agitation against, say, cap-and-trade, is rather selfish and, you know — unhelpful. — That is, unless you all can spin a more convincing counter narrative to help save classical liberalism from what is becoming a relentless pragmatism. Go on. Give it a shot. Wow me. (thanks to Stephanie)