A couple of commenters and links have basically said that in not taking drone killings of Pakistanis seriously enough (for them) in my post yesterday, that I am basically choosing which brown people matter and which don't. Jim Henley especially does this, and in a...
Month: September 2012
Obviously, I concur with pretty much everything in djw and Erik's posts about the inexplicably celebrated Conor Friedersdorf essay in which he congratulates himself for being too good for the.
My latest at the Diplomat discussed efforts to make military services play nice with one another: I’ve belabored the organizational aspects of China’s system of anti-access systems because bureaucratic boundaries.
In the thread on Connor Friedersdorf thread below, Stephen Frug asks a question: Do you agree with Friedersdorf’s premise, namely that there are *some* issues which are dealbreakers, moral issues so stark that you couldn’t vote for a person who supported the wrong side whatever...
Because Robbie Fulks is awesome and because Georgia Hard is the best country album of this millennium.
I have nothing to add to this ... except to say that I have emails and chat transcripts that prove that Jeff's not lying. His fellow conservatives went far beyond.
Connor Friedersdorf writes the kind of political essay I can't see anyone but a privileged white person writing. Going as far as to nearly (but not quite he says!) compare President Obama to an apologist for slavery, he can't stomach voting for Obama because of...
The Republicans might as well fight tooth and nail for Todd Akin's bid to become a senator from Missouri. It's not like a sizable percentage of Republican politicians and activists.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about how, contrary to the conventional wisdom, embracing reproductive freedom has almost certainly been a net win for Democrats in national elections.
With the major exception of campaign finance, I'm inclined to think that the near-libertarian consensus that's grown around the First Amendment is a good thing. But it is an international outlier, and there is a potentially intelligent argument out there exploring the advantages of other...
It certainly seems to me that a huge percentage of our leaders, whether in business, politics, university presidents, or whatnot are former fraternity members. Theoretically sorority members too, but who.
Just a brief set of additional points on the poll skewing theory, which I understand to be that a wide array of polling organizations (excluding Rasmussen and periodically Gallup) are.