I will have some discussion about constitutional "minimalism" later today, but in the meantime a quick note about the first case critics of this theory are likely to bring up. In comments, Redbeard refers us to this piece by Adam Cohen:There are several problems with...
Month: August 2006
I'm not even sure I can say why, but something about this felt very mean-spirited:Second-strangest thing about the Tigers: Six years ago, they offered Juan Gonzalez a $150 million contract.
The NYT reports that attacks on US forces are nearing on all time high in Iraq. Yet, casualty rates for US troops seem to have stabilized. Why is this? I'm.
This is the fifth of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs4. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman5. The Persian Puzzle, Kenneth Pollack The Persian Puzzle is the latest...
Apparently sensing that Mark Levin's defense was too transparently idiotic to function even as a rationalization for hardcore partisans, and that defending Allen's racism with more racism may give away.
Some first-rate reporting by Garance Franke-Ruta, who finds that in addition to his other issues George Allen sat on the board of a company that sold a risible product, quickly.
When you blog, you can never predict your reactions; sometimes posts you think will be provocative generate consensus, and post that express the most self-evident banalities generate controversy. The fact that some commenters tried to defend the Phillies' decision to trade Bobby Abreu and Cory...
Make sure to read Lance's proper and appropriate excoriation of Elspeth Reeve's defense of Ann Coulter. I really wonder if there's something in the water at the New Republic that.
Dead from leukemia, age 57. A fine performer, from Godfather II to Spinal Tap to Donnie Brasco.
This is the fourth of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs4. The World is Flat, Thomas FriedmanThe World is Flat is a book by Thomas Friedman. As I...
I would like to think that George Allen's recent bout of racist taunting (although, in fairness, who could have predicted that someone who worshipped the Confederate flag while growing up.
Shorter Ace of Spades: The only way to preserve liberal democracy is through state-sponsored racism and collective guilt. (Via alicublog.)