Social Security is, as we all know, a very popular and very successful program. For a variety of reasons, centrist pundits in general and the Washington Post in particular have a huge fetish about undermining it in various ways. Recently, CeCi Connolly -- yes, the...
Month: February 2009
With apologies to Marmaduke, it seems worth noting that Jim Bunning is an asshole.
In comments, America's most dangerous professor directs us to this Jacob Weisberg classic, which puts his comments about Hillary's excessively ambitious and calculated iPod and how it spells doom for.
I definitely agree with the "backlash" position on Slumdog Millionaire. It's not just how embarrassingly cliched the last third or so of the movie is -- not so much a Bollywood tribute as a tribute to Hollywood triumph-of-the-underdog-who-gets-the-girl-too-in-an-even-more-dreary-subplot movies -- but that these cliches undermine...
Chapter XII of From Colony to Superpower covers the period between 1932 and 1941. This is, as far as I can recall, the first time that Herring has broken up.
The Dantons were the last pre-dreadnoughts constructed by the French Navy. They were also the only pre-dreadnoughts to employ turbines, and as far as I know the only 20th century.
I hate to break this to you, but Alan Keyes is inherently incapable of putting anything "back on a burner." It's more like putting the Obama birth-certificate non-controversy into a broken microwave that isn't even plugged in, and having some crazy person keep pushing buttons...
Apparently, Roger L. Simon's New Book, I Used to Consider Myself a Democrat, But Thanks to 9/11, I’m Outraged by Chappaquiddick: And That Must Be Why I'm Not Getting Work,.
Wow.The clients who trusted Bernard L. Madoff still do not know exactly what he did with their money. But they know what he did not do with it: He did.
Ygelsias and Black are completely right about this, of course. The point is to tax the specific negative externalities of driving rather than just driving per se, and in addition the new higher implementation costs work at cross-purposes with the additional goal of raising revenues....
Huh.At least Eric Rauchway's mail suggests that he has a real job. Does Oxford know something I don't?
Obviously, you don't expect much from ew lists, and this one is actually better that the "New Classics" one Glenn references, which featured not only more than its share of.