Greg Mitchell is the editor of "Editor and Publisher," and the author of "Why Obama Won." In a recent post at TPMCafe, he shared a letter from his daughter, who left a job at the Holocaust Museum to go back to school for her PhD.
VERY interesting…..
If you haven't read today's Indianapolis Times, you need to click on over right now!
Today's post raises a question–and my eyebrows! Will Mitch PRIVATIZE the CIB??
Even the Crazies Recognize It…..
Charles Krauthammer–one of the more creepy denizens of the very far right–recently accepted a “journalism” award from NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News. According to Steve Benen, Krauthammer began his acceptance speech by “trashing Nobel peace prizes and Pulitzers, before talking up the importance of News Corp’s enterprise. (via TPM)
The Right to Bear Arms
For years, I’ve taught students that the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporated” most provisions of the Bill of Rights–meaning that, although the BOR initially restrained only the federal government, after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court used a series of cases to apply most of those same restrictions to other levels of government.
The Double Standard
When I was a girl (okay, back in the Ice Age), the term double standard referred to the fact that a teenaged boy who "got some" was regarded as a "real guy"–and was envied by those of his peers who hadn't been so "lucky."