Since the FMA hasn’t passed yet, however, Jesse Taylor notes that the Republicans are getting conservative vanity candidate Ralph Nader on the ballot in Michigan. Again, let’s remember: Nader’s entire reason d’etre is to complain that the Democrats are insufficiently steadfast on the important issues of the day (you know–steel tariffs, violent videogames, porn, encouraging doctors talk […]
Month: July 2004
Andrew Sullivan argues against quietism with respect to the Federal Marriage Amendment: Orrin Hatch’s piece in National Review Online is a depressing read. Hatch was once skeptical of the Musgr
Should this indeed be the last year for my beloved Expos, the fine folks at Sadly, No! note that the ‘Spos’ mascot–I don’t know what animal he/she is supposed to represnt, but
Ugh, now I remember why I avoid reading Dowd. Rob, I understand your animus towards Friedman, but Dowd must go first. Could you write a more vapid, gossipy, content-free 800 words than this to win a bet? If I might attempt to offer a summary: Teresa Heinz Kerry is a cold bitch who clearly distains her husband. […]
Here’s a dialogue between Tacitus and Steve Sailer. Sailer insists that racial inequality is based on biology, and Tacitus drops the hammer on him. More commentary from Orcinus. Maybe the NYT
Fred Kaplan at Slate discusses the Army’s conclusions about the first stages of the Iraq II. From a very cursory glance, seems pretty accurate to me. We have all seemed to forget that the in
World O’ Crap has been analyzing Family Circus cartoons as a running gag. Check this out.
Add me to the draft Ehrenreich campaign. This is one damn fine column. With the Repubs starting to fire up their “class warfare” crap against Edwards, it’s important to remember w
Slow day at LGM, no posts attacking Ralph Nader or warning of Iranian nukes. I wonder if there’s a way we could solve both of those problems at once. . . The UW Political Science Department soft
It’s always nice to see smart people say something I’ve been saying for years. First, Jacob Levy. A solid lifelong tried-and-true libertarian (something I’ve always wondered how he might square with his decidedly undogmatic views on multiculturalism and the possibility of group rights, which are far closer to Will Kymlicka than your simplistic hard-core abstract universalist […]
From Juan Cole: One of the scandals that has been reported but hasn’t really broken yet is the way in which Halliburton gained contracts to provide services to US troops in an emergency but has
Apparently, all intelligence failures related to the Iraq War are the fault of the CIA. Never mind that the neocons set up an independent intelligence operation in the Pentagon because the CIA estima