I'm still inclined to think that Bush wants a fight, but there seems to be some chance that he'll go for the more confirmable Michael Mukasey. Jeralyn, persuasively, sees him as definitely conservative but better than, say, Ted Olson. For example, consider this radical idea:Last...
Month: September 2007
Speaking of disciples of Ayn Rand:AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.In.
Thoughts on today's games:Look on the bright side, Irish fans; at least Notre Dame won't suffer an embarrassing defeat in a BCS bowl this year.My efforts to watch the Oregon-Fresno.
About halfway through college, I concluded that pretty much anyone who recommended The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged was probably crackers. My first direct experience with Ayn Rand's prose came when a fellow English major offered me his copy of Atlas Shrugged with John Galt's unreadable,...
This is an exciting time for connoisseurs of wingnuttery. Alec "Skips A Generation" Rawls has finally expanded his profound insights concerning the IslamofascistCommieNazi conspiracy behind the 9/11 memorial in Pennsylvania.
Dear Red Sox:Please stop allowing the Yankees to fill the bases each inning. It makes me greatly unhappy, and I'd like you to cut it out before they score 45.
Eric Johnston's op-ed making the "pro-life" argument for Giuliani is awful in many respects. It repeats many plainly erroneous assertions common to Republican opponents of reproductive freedom: most notably, the claims that abortion would "leave abortion to the states" (a particularly ridiculous argument in light...
I have a new article up at TAP about how the collective action problems surrounding attempts to "reform" the distribution of California's electoral votes to help the GOP is an.
I certainly expected Bush's speech to contain an element of Disney-esue fantasy, but I must admit that I'm somewhat surprised to see that The Decider apparently can't count:Oddly, he thanked.
I know, I know, I am not supposed to be here today. Oh well. Rules were made to be broken.Shorter Eric Johnston in today's NY Times: Giuliani is an abortion wingnut's dream come true -- just see how he drove smut (oh and civil liberties)...
Ben Wittes points out, correctly, that although Jack Goldsmith has been critical of some aspects of the Bush administration he remains a statist conservative. ("Jack Goldsmith is no human-rights lawyer,".
Just completed my first game of of Civ IV: Beyond the Sword. Loved it. It's a very solid mix of a return of older elements of the game with new.