March 2011

Is there anything this dilettante isn’t an expert on? “Too often what we have been doing is using these tests to punish students,” the president told students and parents at a town hall hosted by the Univision Spanish-language television network at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C. Obama, who is pushing a rewrite of [...]

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” Thus spake presidential candidate Barack Obama. So according to his own words and stated beliefs, the current military action in Libya is unconstitutional. Dennis [...]

Make no mistake that the events of the past few weeks in Madison, Wisconsin will go down in the history books alongside such precursors to great upheavals as the Boston Massacre and Harpers Ferry. Only five weeks after Jared Loughner’s shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others elicited calls for a new civility in [...]

Outsourced help desks have become so prevalent for American consumers calling product customer support that setting a sitcom in one seemed inevitable. After all, stand-up comedians have been describing the customer telephone ping-pong among heavily accented operators in their routines for years. Moreover, the sitcom as form tends to move where people spend much of [...]