Good News and Bad News about News

Good News and Bad News about News

There’s some good news about the news business for a change. The big headwound traditional media venues like newspapers and TV suffered with the advent of Internet ads is starting to heal. The bleeding has either stopped or slowed to a less-painful trickle for...
Hobby Lobby, Quit Your Needling

Hobby Lobby, Quit Your Needling

Hobby Lobby’s position is really quite dubious: Using God to get into your uterus. It’s needling its way into women’s health. It’s crafting strategies religiously stealth. The company’s lawyers tell SCOTUS this amounts to abortion, And...
Boehner’s Joke’s on Us

Boehner’s Joke’s on Us

Said Boehner, “What the Hell is this, a joke?” Said Obama, “Oh no, not again with this bloke.” The ACA sign-up deadline’s extended To benefit millions as it was intended. The website snafu caused such delays, “We need the...
The Power Politics behind a Long, Gilded Life

The Power Politics behind a Long, Gilded Life

Let us pause now to pay our respects to Bunny Mellon. She died in mid-March on her Virginia horse-country estate. But no tears, please. Bunny — nobody called her by her given name Rachel — lived a long and rich life. Very long. Very rich. One hundred and three at her...
Washington Gives Peace a Chance

Washington Gives Peace a Chance

It’s hard to get your mind wrapped around Russia’s annexation of Crimea and seizure of Ukrainian military bases there. It was — and many Ukrainians say still is — part of a neighboring sovereign country until mid-March. And it seemed like Europe had...