South Korea is putting the onus on Moscow and Beijing to push forward with diplomatic action against North Korea: South Korea will report the results of an ongoing investigation into the sinking of the Navy ship Cheonan to China and Russia and consult with them...
Month: April 2010
It's problematic enough that Elena Kagan seems to be considered the clear front-runner for a Supreme Court nomination. What's worse is that she's not the weakest candidate of the three.
Via Christopher Shea comes news that will surprise no one I've talked to since returning to the States:Irish drinkers lead the EU in the proportion of those drinking that have.
As Rob can attest, the poor guy has really bad luck with that stuff. Now he has to deal with this.
Closer to an official statement on the sinking of Cheonan: A North Korean torpedo attack was the most likely cause for the sinking of a South Korean warship last month,.
I'd have to agree that "how dare you respond to our laws that give the police virtually unlimited discretion to detain people for the crime of not having a passport.
That's what economist Benjamin Powell is doing at the Freeman, where he notes that Western observers who refer to Somalia's "failed state" status generally overlook the importance of Xeer, the customary law system that holds clan-based society together none too badly. As for piracy? Although...
On Friday I appeared briefly on the Alyona Show to discuss Prompt Global Strike:
Lithwick has a good article about the case of Charles Dean Hood, who was given a death sentence despite the fact that his prosecutor and judge were literally in bed.
The first two Philip Roth books I read were Portnoy's Complaint and Sabbath's Theater. These make for a rather abrupt introduction, but Roth quickly became my favorite from the post-war generation of American authors. My favorites swaths of Roth are the early, pre-Portnoy works and...
It's kind of hard to tell, but I think that Reliapundit is arguing that an alien invasion will (massacres and general butchery aside) usher in a New Golden Age for.
I finally saw The Men Who Stare at Goats this weekend. A significant number of reviews from last year when it came out reference the epigram to the film, "More.