Good line:The case requires elaborate cover, buckets of money and the finest, fastest air and sea vessels the taxpayers of Miami can afford. Not really, of course. The actual operating budget for the Miami police department in fiscal year 2005 was around $100 million, a...
Month: July 2006
To make this somewhat more useful than merely attacking Ralph Nader's reactionary vanity candidacy in particular by moving it to the question of the value of American third parties in.
Like Matt, I think that Jacob Weisberg is 100% right on this one. I think it's worth noting as well that what seems to be the most common position among.
Are there any good sports autobiographies? The genre is not one noted for distinction; most of the books are written by ghost writers who often have only a mercenary appreciation of their subjects. Ball Four, the one clear candidate for classic status, may not even...
Late last year one of my students gave an outstanding presentation in defense of US agricultural subsidies, an accomplishment I had not thought possible. Daniel Davies makes the same argument.
After launching widespread airstrikes in order avoid negotiating with Hezbollah for the return of its soldiers, it now looks as if Israel will... negotiate with Hezbollah for the return of.
As with the dead-on-its-feet Giuliani candidacy, I would like to think this is obvious, but apparently not. In comments, the otherwise astute Redbeard gives the Naive Nader Apologist Account of his strategy in 2000: "Yeah, while the most likely consequence of a Nader campaign might...
Billmon on strategic planning:But, of course, I'm getting the impression from reading between the lines of the official propaganda that the IDF is struggling just to produce these little symbolic.
A transcript of my remarks from yesterday is here.The front page of the Herald-Leader reads "UK Professor Rob Farley thinks that the Chinese would be the best choice for leadership.
Via B.A.B. (who, alas, is not going to see an end to "women's bodies being the playing field for election-year politicking" anytime soon), I see that George Bush has offered a peculiar justification for the awful new legislation that passed the Senate yesterday:In a statement,...
Via le professeur le plus dangereux en Amerique, the Little Professor (who did great work during the whole Ivan Tribble thing) offers a handy guide to the writing a Chronicle.
I'm glad that someone was motivated to point out the obvious fact that Rudy Giuliani has absolutely no chance whatsoever of winning the Republican primary. The fact that anyone in.