I must say I'm flattered.Shorter Caliban: s.7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does enact Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Month: June 2005
Sully asks and answers a great question:If openly gay soldiers impair "unit cohesion" and destroy morale, why aren't they kicked out in larger numbers during periods of conflict? I mean,.
Kathryn Jean Lopez quotes a "smart [sic] e-mailer" who claims:Derb seems to lean a lot on the idea that the pro-dehydration side had the rule of law behind it. Florida.
A couple months ago, your humble servant was attacked for noting that Nat Hentoff's claim that "[u]nlike people in a persistent vegetative state, Terri Schiavo is indeed responsive beyond mere reflexes" represented a "further descent into wingnuttery." Anyway, I reiterate my remarks. Definitions of wingnuttery...
An important and correct decision by the Supreme Court on Monday, Miller-El v. Dretke. The case involved a death penalty trial in which 1)the prosecution "shuffled" the jury during voir.
DJW and I are currently in Fort Collins, Colorado reading AP exams. What does this entail, you may ask?AP exams are developed by the College Board and given to thousands.
Budding Sinologist has some interesting thoughts on killing aircraft carriers. My thoughts are here.Beginning next Monday, I plan to launch a six part series on the future of US-China relations. Stay tuned.
More than you ever wanted to know about the current state of German politics.Seriously.
You'll be happy to know that the fine folks at William Morrow has commissioned the not-at-all-discredited detective Mark Furhman to solve all our many unanswered questions about the mysterious death.
Nice post from Daniel at Duck of Minerva on guns and genocide. Call me a Hobbesian, but I find state power less frightening than the lack of a state monopoly of violence. Of course, in the modern context private gun ownership does nothing to deter...
It is well beyond time to suggest that Hitch has lost any credibility. Nonetheless. . .And now look. I think it is fairly safe to say that not one detainee.
I didn't really have anything to say about the pie-fight at Kos, although there's no question that his response was a good example of his general antipathy toward feminist politics..