Mark Steyn is channeling Madison Grant again, first in his latest column, in which he explores the Passing of the Great Race:The "realists" think that "containment" and "stability" are wise strategies. In fact, they're the absence of strategy. The fertility rate in the Gaza Strip...
Month: November 2006
Hostility toward the recent shift to "pick-a-party" primaries in Washington has resulted in a Charter Amendment in Pierce County(a well populated county immediately south of Seattle's King county, with some.
I have it on good authority that some law professors are deeply sympathetic to Ezra's position on social science students and law school. I recall that, during graduate school, the.
In light of some of the comments to this post, I should clarify what I meant when I said that Bush's election was inevitable by the time Bush v. Gore was decided. There are two points, I think, we can all agree on. The first...
The first American battleship built on the West Coast was USS Oregon, commissioned in 1896. USS Virginia, USS Massachusetts, and USS New York were built in their nominal states. The.
As of Thanksgiving, the war in Iraq has now stretched on longer than the United States' involvement in World War II. To mark the occasion, the Washington Post decided to.
Belated Friday Cat Blogging... Mamacat
Big Tent Dem questions Paul Krugman's analysis of the election in FL-13, which (for whatever reason) clearly thwarted the will of the voters. I should say, first of all, that.
I note that the upcoming gig (Thursday, Bowery Poetry Club) of friend of (and frequent commenter at) L, G & M Darcy James Argue has been touted in the august.
Iain Ballantyne notes a discussion of Britain's "Finest Hour" regarding the relative value of the contribution of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force to Britain's survival in 1940 and 1941. Ballantyne:Certainly the German fleet was not up to the job of fighting off...
I'm off to bucolic New England for Thanksgiving, so happy holidays to all L, G & M readers. While I'm gone, enjoy this amusing cartoon about the most irritating rhetorical.
Two good posts at Broadsheet on this Thanksgiving eve. First--and truly reason to be thankful--is that walking evidence for the sometimes-forgotten fact that terrible, shallow ideas expressed in good prose.