Jeff Goldstein has found another purported example of the perfidy of the “Democratic party and liberals” at Harvard. The political scientists in the audience will be amused by the punchline: it’s the work of the conservative University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer. Whether someone who voted for Bush in 2000 counts as a liberal […]
Month: March 2006
Lord Fisher was not content with the invention of Dreadnought, the all big gun battleship which would render the fleets of the world obsolete. The mission of the Royal Navy was not limited to the dest
[This was posted as a cameo guest slot at FireDogLake: but at least 50% new maetrial!] As a follow up to ReddHedd’s post below, yesterday I wrote a post about Ryan Lizza’s baffling claim,
The Bearded Ducks are ready to make their move. Ordinarily, I’ve already been eliminated by this point, what with my special ability to identify high seeded first round upset victims and pick them to win the tournament. If Albany had pulled it out against UConn, I’d be sitting pretty; I have unwisely selected Kentucky to […]
Ryan Lizza claims: So the partisans on the left cheering Feingold appear to have both the policy and the politics wrong. Censure is meaningless. Changing the FISA law is the way to address Bush’
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck and Nelson
Seriously, what the hell is up with taking us from interesting, competitive games to the tipoff of 1-16 stiffs? Isn’t Villanova a pretty expansive definition of “local”? If we’re going to go that far, why don’t we count D.C. so we can actually watch a game that would be of interest to non-alumni? Love,Scott …or, […]
Well, that was surprising. I don’t think that anyone could have predicted that the US would simply fail to hit in the WBC. In five games against teams other than South Africa, the US scored 16 r
Who knew bloggers had such power? Judith Miller has a new alibi—the blogs done her in! Writer Marie Brenner presents Miller’s latest defense in an April Vanity Fair feature story about the fal
If ethical and pragmatic arguments don’t sway you from your belief that granting males an unlimited right to withhold child support is a good idea, via Ezra note this crucial question from Tyler Cowen: “This change would be a tax on male nerd sex. It would boost male nerd autonomy, but which of these do […]
Via Atrios (who explains exactly what the results of the Saletan approach will be here), I see that Missouri Republicans voted to kill an amendment to start providing state funding for birth control.
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