Bird Dog over at Tacitus channels Charles Krauthammer: For me, it's hard to disagree with Krauthammer and this bleak situation. We need an aggressive policy of regime change for Iran, we need to actively foment democratic revolution in this oppressed country and we need to stop...
Month: July 2004
Check out this interesting piece by Michael Penn over at Juan Cole. Penn is concerned about the increasing willingness of Japan's government to use force, and about the increasing independence of.
On a number of occasions in the past 3 1/2 years, I've found myself shocked and startled at the depths to which this administration will sink. Each time, I vow.
Data point against the liberal media hypothesis, #576: I'm listening to NPR right now. They're covering the big Microsoft dividend story. The coverage is focused pretty much exclusively on how the Bush tax cuts are entirely responsible for this payment.
Bush, in response to the 9/11 commission report yesterday: "Had we had any inkling whatsoever that terrorists were about to attack our country, we would have moved heaven and earth.
The Annie Jacobsen piece has been finding its way around the internet. Here is a fine shredding at Salon; beware the ad. If you're not familiar with the story, Ms. Jacobsen had.
It seems as if there has been a storm of weddings this summer. Or maybe only two, but because I usually send gifts between 1-2 years late and I'm trying to catch up, it seems like a storm. Anyway, my temporal laxity regarding wedding gifts...
Liberty magazine reports the story of how Baradnik won the LP nomination. Amusing stuff. One of the richest lines: Badnarik is a self-taught constitutional scholar Ah, that explains it. Unfortunately, he.
Ted Barlow gathers up the good news and presents it to us. My personal ban on optimism is still intact, but for those of you who like to think nice thoughts.
The best poll yet at the Rittenhouse Review: Who is worse, the more offensive, odious, or objectionable, and limit your thought process not to the inexplicably popular, "Mad About You?" Helen Hunt Paul Reiser I have to go with Reiser, who seems even worse outside...
The interesting things about dissertation defenses is, no matter how they turn out you'll want to get drunk afterward...
Kudos to the newly minted Dr. Scott Lemieux. May his legitimacy rub off on the rest of us.