Maggie's Farm

Five best books about writing for newspapers

Steve Jobs Was A Lousy Role Model

Yom Kippur: Worthy of the Covenant

The Global Overselling of Higher Ed

All the single ladies

...where do they all come from?

Sipp:

There is a day coming. It is not on the horizon yet, but it is not far over it. Prospective employers are going to look at your children's resume, and if it refers to any sort of "public school" on it, they're going to roundfile it without hesitation, and they're going to call HR and ask them to find another homeschooled kid. Maybe they'll settle for an expensive privately schooled kid if there's no "non-socialized" kids available.

Somin: Incentivizing Terrorism

We are the 53%

The Real Wall Street

Colleen Carroll Campbell: Obama is alienating Catholic voters

Are Democrats Eyeing 401(k)s, IRAs for Tax Hit?

Pelosi: Pay for abortion, or women 'die on the floor'

Good grief. Didn't people ever hear of paying the doctor?

Another one: Solar Project That Received $1.2 Billion Federal Loan Sponsored by Financially Troubled Firm

Solar Energy Lobby Calls For Extending Obama's Stimulus Grants for Solar Power

That is termed "chutzpah"

“Professors are asking their classes [emphasis added] to take the day to actually go to this rally,"

So either the profs feel they have little of value to offer, or the profs have contempt for those paying the tuition

Will: Can Occupy Wall Street give progressives a lift? A quote:

Its meta-theory is, however, clear: Washington is grotesquely corrupt and insufficiently powerful.

Mead on OWS:

From a news point of view this is dog bites man: the usual people are doing the usual things. They are doing it in an unusual place — and over time they may be doing it in unusual numbers. But leftie protests that go nowhere are part of the background noise of modern American life. Drums and granola in the park is not news. Until OWS breaks that mold, expect public interest to remain tepid.

Stoners and career protesters in the grass, alas

The stench is incredible

Rules for WI Radicals (and public unions, really)

This is an exciting time for the taboo science of solar physics

Bill Clinton Rebukes Obama: “Should You Raise Taxes Today?… No!”

Rush Limbaugh: Mitt Romney Is Not a Conservative

Rush is right, as always. Mitt is a successful businessman and talented executive turned pol, and not deeply ideological. I think lots of people are comfortable with that. Romneycare? Big error, but the people who have not fled MA yet seem to sort-of like it thus far. I would hate it, on principle, just like Medicare. Socialism never adds up because job-creators won't take risks for nothing.