I suspect that NRO felt that if people were coming here to get their Steyn & Goldberg fixes that it would erode their readership. And they are probably able to offer a sweeter deal than Ricochet.

Ricochet still has a compelling lineup with Lileks, Epstein, Yoo, Senik, Robinson, & Long. I'd pay for 2 cups a coffee a month though if Goldberg & Steyn could be returned to the mix.

I'm sorry to say that I found this podcast unlistenable. I have listened to a few of these but Jennifer Rubin's umming and ahhing was at Obama levels and I had to shut if off after 15 mins.

I'm sure this can be improved upon.

How about the next Steyn/Golberg/Long, when is that due?

Or have I missed some news?

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Kindles are a boon for the book selling industry, especially for the aged reader who can have their reading lives extended by years if not decades.

I disagree, I think he is the most potent voice the left have.

I have friends whose entire awareness of the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and Fox News comes from The Daily Show and once they have been told about these things by Stewart are completely unwilling to hear a different perspective.

Ridicule is an immensely powerful tool.

I thought Wallace did a poor job with the opportunity he had and Stewart won the exchange.

Although credit goes to Chris for keeping his cool when Stewart was ranting, it was a shame that he didn't seem prepared to respond to Stewart on the misinformed issue.

Stewart was right about right wingers not getting that it was comedy first and bias second. Chris needed to go after The Daily Show for bias preventing conservatives from getting a break on his show and on the other networks, and that the response to the other side is always ridicule as stupid, crazy, and evil rather than substantive.

Was he not offering up to Wallace an example of an at least libertarian point of view getting across with his repeated mention of South Park?

Stewart's shtick bemoaning the fact the he is taken more seriously than news journalists is tiring and should be taken to task for the elitist disdain for average tastes that I think it represents. Artists and humorists have always been an important and deliberate part of political discussion.

If this data is being used to kick capitalism and not just American economic policy, then surely you would have to factor in the hundreds of millions of Asians who have been taken from poverty and lifted into the middle class.

There is a massive sink for low wage workers overseas that will take an age before demand for those employees will lift American wages.

I'm a small business owner and this is exactly how I react to minimum wage increases in my country. I immediately cancel the pay rises to the one or two staff that are doing better or otherwise get the salaried staff to work a few more hours per week.

But I run my business with a target of labour as a percentage of turnover and I maintain it regardless of new laws, if I didn't I would eventually shut down.

Is there not an issue of safety involved?

A person with a long term stable relationship is less likely to have skeletons in the closet that could give someone leverage over him.

What concessions may Arnies maid have requested and received over his term in office?

 If prison has the affect of training people to be criminals, then surely is it not more important to keep these people capable of influencing others towards criminal activity away from potential pupils in the heretofore innocent public.

To me, protecting innocent people from nefarious influence, is more important than keeping criminal people away from these potential teachers.