Bill Clinton played a lot more footsie with the Pain Caucus than I would have preferred, but Ryan's attempts to protray him as a supporter of his plan to destroy Medicare to finance upper-class tax cuts are absurd.
Month: May 2011
Chuck Blazer weighs in. I still believe that this is an admittedly risky tactic that Blatter is using to ensure his reelection, and once that's secured normal business will resume.
Col. Mustard would like to register a complaint about Media Bias: The MSM will message for Democrats all day long. Already last night the NY Times rand a banner "Rubuke.
A correspondent writes: I have been wondering whether the Indians are going to vote Bill Bavasi a playoff share if they make the playoffs. He deserves one. I dunno, Eduardo Perez could still surprise you! In a vaguely related note, I'm very happy to today...
A really horrible idea.
In my department I am something of an all-rounder: a lot of what I teach is outside my official areas of expertise, at times chilling out in the Oort cloud.
Been a while, but apparently there's a war on: Amphibs: Is there anything they can't do? The French and British are now deploying attack helicopters from their respective amphibious warships. In a broad strategic sense, this reinforces my belief that the amphib is the ship...
It will be interesting to see the Pain Caucus try to rationalize away this one. Personal to Dems: voting to get rid of Medicare to fund upper-class tax cuts is.
My Rules of War class this past Spring was an Honors version of the course, and to challenge my students I asked them to do original research on popular conceptions.
Shorter BHL: "Nobody will stop me from defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn against the many conveniently uncited people who believe that he should be convicted without a trial or due process protections. I also don't understand that the presumption of innocence is a legal concept that doesn't...
Bobo's fantasies about elites and bipartisanship notwithstanding, to the extent that the British system is "functional" where the American system isn't, it's because the Westminster system allows majorities to govern.