this is an adventure

Mike Murphy’s new column in Time recycles many of the arguments proffered by Democrats who have been arguing that their majority will be enduring. I’ve dealt with these at length, and rather than rehash them here, I’ll point you in the direction of my essays on the subject. See here, here, and here.

The Inspector General of Americorps has just finished an investigation of former NBA star Kevin Johnson, who received $850,000 from the taxpayers for a non-profit that may have been one big sham — Johnson, who just happens to be a prominent Obama supporter, had to pay back more than $400,000. So Obama fired the Inspector.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how people thought about the internet as recently as 1995. “The rapidly growing Internet does have a life of its own. Two years ago, nobody knew about it. Now, an estimated 24 million people in North America use it regularly.” The world changes, sometimes in surprisingly rapid ways.

Iranians went to the voting booth today, Friday, June 12th, for their 10th presidential election since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Their decision today is largely whether to keep hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for four more years, or to replace him with a reformist more open to loosening the country’s Islamic restrictions and improving […]