Today is the holiest day of the year for Judaism.  It is the day of repentance, Yom Kippur, in which we apologize to anyone we may have offended, fast so as to experience the plight of the hungry, and spend the day in meditation of how to live our lives better.  This year, there will [...]

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site.
So the op-ed columns and archives will now be accessible for free.
The newspaper said the TimesSelect project had met expectations, drawing 227,000 paying subscribers — out of 787,000 over all — and generating about $10 million a year in revenue.
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What changed, The Times said, was that [...]

What does it mean to “fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”?  I can think of a couple things, but none of them really make any sense to me:
1) The terrorists in Iraq are a primary threat to the United States, and the war in Iraq is a way [...]

From an AP Report:
“Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani on Thursday accused Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton of participating in “character assassination” for questioning Gen. David Petraeus about his assessment of progress in Iraq.
“He added, “What I don’t think should happen in political discourse is the kind of character assassination that MoveOn.org participated in in calling [...]

There was a very interesting article in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about Jack Goldsmith’s tenure as head of the State Department’s Office of Legal Council, from Oct. 2003 to June 2004. (The article is written by a law professor and friend of Goldsmith’s, Jeffrey Rosen. It is part interview, part biography, [...]

This article, a lead story on Yahoo News, talks about how Stockton has the highest foreclosure rate in the country right now.  My parents happen to live in Stockton, and so I have insider information here. While I don’t mean to trivialize the plight of those who’s subprime mortgages are ruining their lives, this article [...]

I understand that most important business in the Senate happens behind closed doors, and not in the public debates on C-SPAN.  I understand that grandstanding for the cameras is to be expected as soon as you let the cameras into a place like the floor of the United States Senate.  But the actions by a [...]

The big news of the day is, of course, the Congressional testimony of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker on the progress of Iraq.  They are reporting mixed progress, and as loyal administration soldiers they are trying to put their best face on everything.  After all, the Iraqi military is improving, albeit slowly; violence in Iraq [...]

Fred Thompson officially entered the presidential race.  More importantly, he now has an official campaign website that has actual policy information on it.  The caveat, of course, is that there isn’t a whole lot of information on his site yet.  Basically he discusses two issues at length: federalism and immigration reform.

I recently heard that my former employer is offering a new sort of “insurance” service. The Plan format sounds familiar: for a monthly fee, with an annual commitment and payroll deduction through your employer, you are able to consult with an in-Plan specialist with no fees or deductibles. But the specialist is a lawyer, who [...]