PostPartisan Archive: Marcus
Does football cause domestic violence?
Does professional football cause domestic violence? Not exactly, although Thanksgiving does (see below.) But it turns out that losses in professional football games -- specifically, when the home team suffers an unexpected upset, based on the pre-game point spread...
By
Ruth Marcus
|
November 18, 2009; 4:26 PM ET |
Permalink |
Comments (9)
Categories:
Marcus
| Tags: Ruth Marcus
Share This: E-Mail | Technorati
| Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble
On Gerson's takedown of Attorney General Holder
I’d like to propose Marcus’s General Theory of Punditry: the intellectual force of a column tends to be in inverse relationship to the amount of invective. Today’s example -- and, yes, I’m sure it would be easy to apply...
By
Ruth Marcus
|
November 18, 2009; 9:17 AM ET |
Permalink |
Comments (84)
Categories:
Marcus
| Tags: Ruth Marcus
Share This: E-Mail | Technorati
| Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble
In defense of Blue Dogs and RINO's
My friend Jill Lawrence has an interesting column in AOL’s “Politics Daily” about what she calls “the misfits” -- politicians who are in the wrong party and, she thinks, “really ought to switch.” With all respect to Jill, I...
By
Ruth Marcus
|
November 12, 2009; 11:36 AM ET |
Permalink |
Comments (74)
Categories:
Marcus
| Tags: Ruth Marcus
Share This: E-Mail | Technorati
| Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble
Freedom of choice, except for women
Opponents of the various Democratic health-reform proposals spend a lot of time talking about how people should be free to purchase whatever kind of insurance they want. Except, it turns out, if those people are women. Going into Saturday’s...
By
Ruth Marcus
|
November 9, 2009; 12:44 PM ET |
Permalink |
Comments (130)
Categories:
Marcus
| Tags: Ruth Marcus
Share This: E-Mail | Technorati
| Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble
Continue ignoring the punditry
Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz did a version of my look at the predictive force -- or lack thereof -- of the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections -- except his smartly took into account the general rule...
By
Ruth Marcus
|
November 6, 2009; 12:09 PM ET |
Permalink |
Comments (10)
Categories:
Marcus
| Tags: Ruth Marcus
Share This: E-Mail | Technorati
| Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble
Public option: less than advertised
One of the fundamental arguments for having a public option as part of future health-insurance exchanges is that the increasing consolidation in insurance markets has reduced competition among insurers, thereby driving up premiums. Having a public option, the argument...
By
Ruth Marcus
|
November 5, 2009; 4:30 PM ET |
Permalink |
Comments (11)
Categories:
Marcus
| Tags: Ruth Marcus
Share This: E-Mail | Technorati
| Del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble










