Michael Oren and Yossi Halevi: An Israeli assault could only delay Iran's nuclear program, not eliminate it. That's because Israel cannot sustain an air campaign against such remote targets for days on end. This can only be accomplished by the United States, perhaps together with...
Month: August 2010
OK, I know some of you are sick to death wearying of the Wikileaks story. A few commenters have argued that I've already spent a disproportionate amount of time on.
Dear Ross Douthat: Please, for the love of Christ, desist from using the word "thick." cheers, Everybody in the World
...you can now purchase a 100-proof version of your favorite overblown conservative rhetoric. (After all, he is clearly, and spectacularly, drunk on it.)
Ackerman: You eat at enough DFACs and you’re going to see some awesomely bad Armed Forces Network commercials. One series that I actually like features MLB players, vets and managers.
I'm out of town for a funeral and don't time to fully get into this, but I couple of quick points to add to SEK's demolition of Jonah below: Note.
It hardly bears mentioning that The Huffington Post remains one of the least reliable sources of decent, scientifically-literate reporting on health and medicine, but this piece by natural diet guru John Robbins is nearly beyond belief. Inspired by vague, unconfirmed reports that a handful of...
Jonah Goldberg proves, as if we needed reminding, that the people "who talk about reverence for the Constitution ... consistent with the 'genius of our constitutional design'" are the ones.
In an earlier post on the lessons of the Afghan War Diaries, I pointed out an unfortunate legal fact: that civilian harms aren't necessarily evidence of war crimes. But I.
Greg Gutfeld circa 2003: In 2003 [while serving as the Editor in Chief of Stuff], Gutfeld hired several dwarves to attend a magazine conference, on the topic of “buzz,” in his place. During one of the lectures, they chatted loudly on cell phones and munched...
Dan Rostenkowski, 1928-2010. The quintessential Chicago pol.
New Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion I'm not sure which is more dead-on: the satire of arbitrary abortion regulations, or the satire of the.