At some point in the last ten years, the People’s Republic of China discovered diplomacy. The increased appreciation for diplomacy on the part of the Chinese more or less mirrors the increased contempt for the same on the part of the United States. This should be troubling to hawks who want to find themselves in […]
Month: May 2005
I am a very strong supporter of NARAL, and am also annoyed by claims that the Democratic Party is excessively in thrall to “interest group politics,” because 1)democratic politics is inelu
I’m messing with the template this afternoon in order to fix the sidebar problem (it seems to get shifted to the bottom whenever I open the page with Explorer, although not the same problem when
Best wishes to Michael Berube on a speedy recovery.
Walking argument against nepotism John Podhoretz argues: It opens next week. I saw it, and here’s the thing: It’s unbelievably bad. O I’m telling you this because movie critics won&#
I missed this part of the debate, but I’m glad that Patty Murray gave the appropriate response to Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s interminable blubbering about what a great person Priscilla Owen i
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
ROTHENBERG: I simply wanted to add, Wolf, that if you want to know who to blame ultimately for this confrontation that we have now, I think you can almost make the argument that can you blame court, b
I haven’t been as genuinely appalled by song use in a TV ad since the Wrangler jean commercial a few years back that combined a waving American flag with the line “Some folks are born to w
John Conryn is currently on the Senate floor repeating arguments made by Democratic Senators during the Clinton administration that judicial nominees should be let out of committee. It would be hard to get a better example of poetic justice as fairness. Wow, now he’s claiming that “The Senate has always been about a majority vote.” […]
Iocaste makes a good point about the nature of the error that produced the Newsweek scandal. The wingnutosphere is taking a page out of the playbook that was used by opponents of the Civil Rights move
Con: Shorter Glenn Reynolds: Freedom of the press is a good thing, so long as it doesn’t involve any information that reflects poorly on the foreign policies of (Republican) Presidents. Besides,