Rambling but thought-provoking defense of tabloids.
Frank Rich on the future of journalism; Maureen Dowd on the same, but don't waste your time reading it.
The bureaucratic clusterf* that is our country's social safety net. An excerpt:
"Workers who banked $2,000 in severance pay can get food stamps in South Carolina; their counterparts in North Carolina cannot. Oklahomans who earned $10,000 in six months can collect unemployment if they started work on the 15th of February, May, August or November — but not if they started two weeks later.
When the recession cost Erika Nieves of Bridgeport, Conn., her job with a wrestling promoter, she did get unemployment benefits. But that caused her to lose a welfare-to-work grant and her child care subsidy. Now Ms. Nieves is months behind on her rent and is job hunting with a 2-year-old."
I rarely have good things to say about non-profits whose mission is to promote Christianity, but this was some good work.
An excellent argument by Stephen Carter against the questioning of Supreme Court nominees.
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