No, but that's an all too common subject line in my sent mail file over the past couple of years. Erik at Alterdestiny has a nice takedown of David Brooks latest effort: First, Brooks makes the statement that the physical landscape influences our view of politics and...
Month: October 2004
Strikes me as some significant news: In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Struck departed from his government’s resolve not to send troops to Iraq under any circumstances, saying: “At.
Academic security experts, that is. They have some, er, questions about the handling of the intervention in Iraq. Via Brad Delong comes this letter, signed by 698 scholars of international security..
RED SOX/YANKEES Any evaluation has to start with the fact that the BoSox outscored the Yankees by 50 runs, and allowed about 40 less. In other words, Boston is a significantly better team, and the Yankees' division win was a fluke. In addition, the Red...
A great point here by Michael Berube. While I understand that acknowledging the deeply-felt moral sense of people who oppose some abortions procured by the wrong kind of pe...er, "pro-lifers" is.
Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged nails it. Really, the Times should have suggested that the book would have been better with another year or twenty of research. But, then, and op-ed page.
I mentioned recently that to call Antonin Scalia a "formalist" is too give him too much credit. Now, in fairness, if you evaluate these things on a continuum he could be seen as relatively "formalist" in comparison with the typical Supreme Court justice. (And, contrary...
I wade in only with great trepidation. . . Can you make a good film about a stone killer? Absolutely, no question. Can you make a good film about a.
Just to make a last quick point, I think this post at the (superb) Counterspin Central represents a fairly common misperception about the extent of Dred Scott's holding. Obviously, if the Court.
It looks as if the hideous Nethercutt attack ads on Patty Murray have backfired: Two weeks ago, Republican opponent George Nethercutt went nuclear on Murray, doing the "Murray supports OBL" bit that sunk Max Cleland. Everyone waited with baited breath to see how the ads would...
Rest in peace, Ken. Kids, be careful with the nose candy.
David Neiwert has an interesting post about the crucial Dred Scott issue (you heard it here first!) The general thrust of his argument is correct: when you hear "strict constructionism" it means.