As if to confirm John's fears about a potential constitutional crisis, the Vice President has announced that in all likelihood he will simply flout Congressional subpoenas. I'll say this: better a major constitutional struggle than a Congress that, in the face of an administration that...
Month: November 2006
I was pleased to see via Pithlord that the Canadian Supreme Court has held that companies cannot evade time limits on patents by taking out more patents related technology (although.
I plead guilty to making the same mistake about Bush's foreign policy team as Ezra and Ross Douhat:If you had asked me, circa 1999, to pick out a group of.
Via Marc Lynch, we are reminded once again of the Bush administration's vital role as a full-employment program for incompetents. Dorrance Smith, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs -- whose spectacularly awful record Lynch has scrutinized before -- is now charged with trying to...
Mona finds that idiot-even-by-neocon-standards Michael Ledeen is now claiming to have opposed the Iraq War despite calling it "desperately-needed and long overdue." And it gets worse. In his roundup of.
The Weekly Standard's parody page features the following knee-slapper as a "Kids' letter to Barak Obama":Dear Senator Obama,I'm a student here at Harvard and my mama tells me there ain't.
HMS Renown was to be the sixth "R" class battleship, but construction was suspended at the beginning of World War I in the expectation that the ship would not be ready by the end of the war. The return of Jackie Fisher to the Royal...
The forces of evil are defeated once again. Let's hope that this is a good omen for Tuesday. Rob's Election Predictions:House: Dems+26Senate: Dems+4 (and Lieberman defeats Lamont)DL-Lexington will be watching.
This article from World Net Daily sent a number of people (including my favorite wingnut) into spasms of glee the other day. Following through on their commitment to depict opponents.
As Scott pointed out earlier today, Charles Johnson among others are evidently incapable of discerning the plain meaning of the phrase "at that time" when it follows immediately a sentence that concludes with the phrase "after the Persian Gulf War." It's been interesting to go...
OK, it's one thing for hack bloggers without a shred of expertise in foreign policy (but what does Al Di Meola think about Saddam's nuclear weapons program? Hopefully Pajamas Media.
How can we expect to do well in Iraq when, after relieving six insurgents of multiple explosive devices, we just let them go? No way to run a railroad...The United.