A Republican-led panel in Missouri has claimed that illegal immigration is caused by...abortion. But I'm not sure why they're stopping there: if they banned birth control, that would really stop those damned immigrants! Actually, I think that following Woody Allen's joke about oral contraception, the...
Month: November 2006
Shorter Verbatim Grover Norquist: "Bob Sherwood's seat would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn’t whined about being throttled." Yeah, what a tragedy that these moral giants no longer.
Last month, a Chinese Song class diesel electric submarine approached, apparently undetected, to within 5 nautical miles of the USS Kitty Hawk, well within both missile and torpedo range. The.
Trent Lott: the #2 Senate Republican. Maybe the GOP will now make Jeff Sessions the RPC chair too, just like Red State wants. I forget if it was Atrios or Josh that put this up on their site during the Lott incident, but let's return...
Thanks to this review, everyone can rededicate themselves to perhaps the most important cause in post-election conservative politics -- beating the shit out of Jimmy Carter.I haven't read Carter's new.
As you would expect, it takes Glenn Reynolds to really push the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics to sublime heights of lunacy. Does the deteriorating situation in Iraq prove, say,.
To expand a bit on Dave's post, let's note what's really important to the wingnutty among us.In a speech delivered a month after his reelection, Lincoln carefully surveyed the North's resources and manpower and concluded that the nation's wealth was "unexhausted and, as we believe,...
Amy Sullivan's recent article celebrating anti-choice Colorado SenatorGovernor-elect Bill Ritter makes some arguments that allow me to clarify some of my difficulties with "centrist" arguments about abortion. First of all,.
This has to be one of the more inept commentaries I've seen in some time, which -- beyond explaining why it appeared in the Weekly Standard -- also likely explains.
A commenter in this thread says that recess appointments can't be used for the federal bench; actually, they can. This seems like a good time to remember that President Clinton used a recess appointment to appoint Roger Gregory, because Jesse Helms otherwise refused to allow...
Via Alterdestiny we learn of some boundlessly dysfunctional attitudes toward reproductive technologies -- in this case the "Male Pill," which evidently threatens to emasculate us all by packing our gonads.
In light of Mario Loyola's quite remarkable claim that were the federal government were to pass a law requiring militias to disband instead of resisting a foreign occupation the people.