Horrible, horrible news, as the courageous Kansas abortion provider George Tiller was shot.Kansas, as I'm sure some of you know, was at the center of the epidemic of anti-choice terrorism, with at least tacit support from some prominent public officials. Congressional intervention in the mid-90s...
Month: May 2009
I am about to leave for Florida, on my annual pilgrimage to the ETS AP Comparative Government scoring session. I don't consider this a full vacation, and may still blog.
This blog went live five years ago today. I have updated our FAQ to reflect the changes since the last update of the FAQ. As always on these occasions, I'd.
Erik has some concluding thoughts on our series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. For my part, I enjoyed reading the book and commenting on it. Patterson is considering using From Colony to Superpower on next year's Summer Reading List, although we'll may start...
At this point, knowing that the North Koreans are facing hard limits on fissile material, wouldn't it make sense just to dare them to conduct additional nuclear tests?
Check out this fabulously informative article on Chinese SSBNs. The PLAN is building between four and six Jin-class nuclear ballistic missile subs, which when complete will constitute a deterrent on.
I just finished reading Karen Greenberg's excellent The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, a book that is (for obvious reasons) relevant to the hyperventilating spasms currently being mistaken for a "debate" about what to do with the crown jewel of Bush administration lawlessness....
Adam deals effectively with this jaw-dropping nonsense from Stuart Taylor. It's worth adding that, as far as I can tell, none of Taylor's many remarkably non-prescient mash notes to his.
I had a request in comments to discuss concerns some liberal critics have had about Sotomayor's record on abortion (which the administration has tried to address.) Fortunately, Filipovic already has.
This is probably the best NYT correction ever:Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the number of girls younger than 18 who were allegedly invited to a villa by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. Mr. Berlusconi is alleged to have invited about 40...
Hardened Al Qaeda terrorist succumbs to cookie:Abu Jandal's guards were so intimidated by him, they wore masks to hide their identities and begged visitors not to refer to them by.
Shorter Michael Gerson and Charles Krauthammer: "It's outrageous that President Obama would suggest that empathy is a useful trait in a Supreme Court justice. And it's outrageous that Sonia Sotomayor.