I suppose everyone has a punch-the-wall-with-your-face moment in this interview. Here's mine:GIBSON: You said you were not going to be in the business of nation-building. And so much of what you had to do was nation-building.BUSH: Well, what I said was, in the course of...
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Who knew?Bush has presided over a period of general economic growth.
Is Amity Shlaes stupid, dishonest, lazy, or all of the above?As a somewhat-related bonus, this is also good:Paul Krugman Sets the Bar Far too Low......when he says that Keynes's greatness.
Kim du Toit -- winner of the most prestigious blogging award ever -- has apparently tired of blogging. He muses:Somebody wrote to me and said, very graciously, that he now knows how people felt when Albert Jay Nock passed away. While that’s all very flattering,...
Steve Conn:[P]erhaps the nomination which best demonstrated just how inept this administration would prove to be was John Ashcroft. You will recall that Ashcroft got the job of running the.
Scott Jaschik has a fascinating and distressing article at Inside Higher Ed about the misdeeds at the College of DuPage, where the board of trustees recently proposed the adoption of.
In case you tire of your friends and relatives today, you can always amuse yourself with TIDOS Yankee's efforts to lift his self-esteem:My typical day started by taking my older daughter to her elementary school, dropping my infant daughter off at her daycare, and then...
In my darker moments at the end of the semester, I sometimes find myself complaining to no one in particular that kids these days lack basic research skills and that.
I think Kim du Toit has been reading The Corner lately:[A]n increasingly large cohort of America in the lower 48 (and probably Hawaii) are p—-ies. They have no clue where.
Jules Crittenden:George W. Bush did not solve all the problems of the world's most troubled and dangerous region. You don't say!Crittenden's larger claim -- that the Bush Doctrine has somehow worked out more or less as planned and predicted -- is beyond absurd. He and...
From today's bukakke party for Ted Stevens.Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho: "I’m en route from downtown Anchorage, to the Ted Stevens International Airport. And as we round the curb and pull.
This is pathetic. For a variety of reasons I can't quite explain, I listen to right wing radio during my 15-minute drives to and from campus; this is about as.