Liberal Talk Radio

Thanks for the Contrarian keeping the home fires burning (oh yeah, that pun was intended) while I was out of the country. I was at a very proper bachelor party in Montreal with dear friend and known reader of this site. Good times were had by all. Montreal is funny, in that way [...]

Jane Kramer explains why Europe is plus ont baisé than we assumed:
Every country with an influx of migrant workers had to scramble toward some sort of social formula to absorb them (or, as often as not, pretend that they weren’t there). And before long those formulas had frozen into easy, and, not surprisingly, competing, certainties—all [...]

In case you were wondering, this whole “rioting” thing is nothing unusual — after all, France is a place where on average 80 cars are burned each day:
The last time France was convulsed by rioting as serious as the current bout - the student revolts of 1968 - the symbol of the insurrection was a [...]

Ok, well, I guess this was premature. Apparently moderate House Republicans have saved ANWR, for now.
Thank the Lord for House Republicans. (Did I just say that??)
To repeat my previous post on the issue, I still think there are tactical reasons for using ANWR exploration as a bargaining chip to extract (pun very much [...]

Calling Steven Levitt . . . add natural disasters to the list of factors influencing the decline in crime! So simple, it’s brilliant:
On a single day last June in Pigeon Town and Hollygrove, impoverished neighborhoods of worn frame houses at the city’s western edge, four men were killed, adding to the eight already slain there [...]

While it’s true that yesterday’s election results are no the watershed moment for Democrats that Howard Dean would have you believe they are, there’s no denying that the re-election of Democratic governors in NJ and VA, plus the defeat of GOP initiatives in CA and ME is better for Democrats and worse for Republicans than [...]

Bruno writes about what our priorities should be for free trade, and I’d like to add one more that may or may not be readily apparent: World Stability. I mean, I like to strum away on my cheap Mexican Stratocaster as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day what makes [...]

I just voted. Did you?

How do we poor Blue-staters benefit from political scandal in the White House? Other than a weakened presidency and a congressional majority engaged in fractious in-fighting and policy rebellion against the powers that be, we also get great value on our used books.