Editors’ Blog - 2014
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.
07.23.14 | 9:41 am
Are They on the Case?

Why yesterday’s court ruling on Obamacare is actually a big political opportunity for Democrats … if they take it.

07.23.14 | 10:04 am
Establishment Republicans Gone Wild

Good Ed Kilgore look at what happened in yesterday’s Georgia GOP Senate primary where to establishment Republicans battled over who was the biggest RINO.

07.23.14 | 10:40 am
GOP Innovation?

We’ve become accustomed to the fact that every politician’s public schedule is tracked relentlessly by party or outside group trackers who videotape every moment waiting for the “macaca” like flub. But the Michigan GOP is now outfitting staffers with James Bond-like secret camera hidden in their eyeglasses.

07.23.14 | 10:57 am
#Winning

National Review writer writes article attacking Dems for supporting Jim Crow, forgets to mention National Review supported Jim Crow.

07.23.14 | 11:42 am
‘Artificially Cramped’

Nicholas Bagley on why yesterday’s DC Circuit ruling invalidating Obamacare tax credits was so misguided.

07.23.14 | 12:00 pm
AR-15 and Body Armor

Man with body armor and an AR-15 on the loose in Riverside – already shot a Sheriff and implicated in two murders.

07.23.14 | 12:15 pm
Big Deal

A new review of data by the Department of Labor shows that states which hiked their minimum wages experienced higher job growth in 2014 than those that did not.

Read More

07.23.14 | 1:49 pm
The Other White Meat

President Elect of National Pork Producers Council arrested trying to bring a handgun into the Capitol building.

07.23.14 | 1:59 pm
Oh Good Grief, People!

Texas ‘Open Carry’ activists hold event at Dealey Plaza, site of the Kennedy Assassination. Watch.

07.23.14 | 2:56 pm
Good Times in Small Business

We hear a lot about how small businesses have to navigate all sorts of cumbersome government regulations to stay afloat. And I can attest to numerous cases where we have to deal with regulations that I fully support but could be much more efficiently managed with zero impact on the social good they’re meant to secure. I’m lookin’ at you New York State! But a far bigger nuisance is dealing with major corporations that appear to decided that one of their major revenue sources should be a level of institutional stupidity that maintains a steady amount of revenue simply because no ordinary person can navigate what appears to be an intentional level of incompetence. To be specific what I’m talking about: a level of bureaucratic inefficiency combined with incompetent customer service that forces people to pay for services they didn’t purchase because the cost of paying ends up being a smaller hassle than navigating the Kafkaesque labyrinth of the company’s phone tree. This line item on the corporate P&L I call the ‘Delta of Derp’. And here’s an example today from one of my favorite companies: Verizon.

Read More