With a tip of the hat to @BruceBartlett for facilitating the use of the term “wanker” to describe those fringe right-wingers who like to call themselves “conservatives”, I present The Conservative Self-Examination List to help my conservative friends… more »

  News Item: Verizon Communications announced today it is buying Intel Media, the chip-makers digital TV subsidiary. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian Fung’s blog post today at the Washington Post ‘s “The Switch” (“How Verizon plans to weake… more »

  The Federal Court of Appeals ruling last week vacating the FCC’s Open Internet Rules is yet another example of the telecommunications business becoming more oligopolistic. As a consequence of the 2002 FCC ruling that exempted broadband providers from… more »

…That evolution gave them us. Don’t you wonder why Alex Rodriguez, a very gifted athlete, felt compelled to break the rules and end up being banned from baseball for a year? This is a player with Hall of Fame credentials. While you’re scratching you… more »

The discovery last week that a toxic chemical had spilled into the Elk River is the latest in the series of environmental disasters that have occurred in West Virginia in recent years. The immediate consequence of the spill is that 300,000 of the state’… more »

  With the news this week that Falluja in Anbar Province had fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda-affiliated Sunni insurgents, you can only shake your head at the havoc left behind after more than a decade of war in Iraq. We removed the Sunni-dominated Ba… more »

  The Great Bridge Scandal of 2013 has temporarily flattened the trajectory of Chris Christie’s political ambitions. The line between a blunt-speaking, get-it-done political leader and a vindictive bully appears to be thin indeed. While the Governor pl… more »

  Ah, optimism. Once again, it shows up when a new year begins. 2014 is no exception. On the domestic front, various economists have issued bullish prognostications on GDP growth this coming year. After its disastrous introduction, the Affordable Care… more »