Liberty
Another left-wing opinion writer flees WaPo
David Strom writes for HotAir.com about another major change at a leading legacy media outlet. Ruth Marcus is leaving the Washington Post. What a loss. What a loss. Marcus is…
Ruth Marcus
Newspaper columnist
Liberty
WaPo Column Displays Left’s Continued Cluelessness
Matt Vespa writes for Townhall.com about another sign that the political left doesn’t understand the implications of the 2024 election. I may disagree with Ruth Marcus, but she’s not an…
Liberty
Leftists Worry Gorsuch Doesn’t Care About Bureaucrats
Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist explores a critique of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Three years before he threatened him while standing on the steps of the Supreme Court,…
Liberty
WaPo Columnist Angry That Courts Haven’t Taken Trump Out
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about one major media commentator’s latest lament. Trump-hating Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus isn’t happy. She wants a swifter witch hunt. In a column…
Liberty
Democracy and the Administrative State Don’t Work Well Together
David Harsanyi of the Federalist writes that it’s not possible to defend both democracy and the administrative state. The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the…
Liberty
Trump Prosecutor Is Losing His Case
Rich Lowry of National Review Online says the New York prosecution of former President Donald Trump is proving problematic. You don’t know what’s in the indictment. How many times did progressives…
Education
Sex, drugs, and personal responsibility
In the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus tells a cautionary tale about a young woman encouraged to believe she had been raped, and a young man who discovered he may be…
Health Care
Washington Post: Democrats’ rhetoric on Hobby Lobby ‘untethered from the basic facts’
Such is not news to Locker Room readers. Washington Post quotes the following Democrats saying things that are ridiculously wrong about the Hobby Lobby ruling: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi…
Health Care
Even dumber reactions to the Hobby Lobby decision
I suspect now that the main reaction — five guys on the Supreme Court just ruled against women’s reproductive rights!1 — is more than just ignorance, but a calculated and…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Face Off: Will vs. Marcus
Sunday’s N&O featured a wonder example of how the left and right approach the the Obamacare health care law. George Will provides a powerful legal argument based not on the…
Liberty
The meaning of the Commerce Clause
When asked the inconvenient question about the constitutional authority for ObamaCare (especially the mandate to purchase insurance, but much more is constitutionally questionable), the zealots for the administration have been…
Liberty
Ask Heath Shuler if Virginia means anything
Usually in life, when you are hired for a specialty, you’re pretty good at it. Given that, how does Ruth Marcus keep her job at The Washington Post as a…