Revisiting the Sins of Mark Halperin
Patrick Fallon via ZUMA Eve Fairbanks says that Mark Halperin did a lot more harm than just abusing women. Via his authorship of The Note, he spent years abusing the entire city of Washington DC: I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics — one which…
Ron Johnson Is Making an Epic Run For “Greediest Senator” Award
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Over at National Review, Jibran Khan reports that several Republican senators are still skeptical about the tax bill: Most of the skeptics are concerned about debt. Susan Collins (Maine) questions the inclusion of individual-mandate repeal and the removal of SALT deductions. And Ron Johnson (Wis.) opposes the different treatment of…
Obamacare Enrollments Continue to Thrive
CMS reports today that Obamacare enrollments through the federal exchange are now up to 2.3 million this year. That’s about a 50 percent increase over the same period last year. If we assume that state exchange enrollments are up the same amount, total enrollments so far amount to just over 5 million: This is all…
Another Shoe Drops in the Florian Jaeger Affair
WBNS-10TV Last month Madison Pauly reported on Florian Jaeger, a linguistics professor at the University of Rochester: Celeste Kidd was elated when she learned, in 2007, that she had been invited to interview for a Ph.D. program at the University of Rochester in New York….As she began the interview process, Kidd was told that in…
We’re in Danger of Squandering Our Sexual Abuse Moment
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA John Conyers is the latest politician to be accused of sexual harassment: Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, moved swiftly on Tuesday against the House’s longest serving lawmaker, calling for the House Ethics Committee to investigate sexual harassment charges against Representative John Conyers Jr., the top Democrat on the House…
Net Neutrality Is All About the Little Guy
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA The FCC is getting ready to kill off net neutrality rules, which means that internet providers will be allowed to play favorites with different content from different companies. Tyler Cowen suggests this is really no big deal. He looks at two studies: In the past, the FCC went through…