Busy today with parental visits and prep and all, so in the wake of Alessandra Stanley’s ridiculous review of ABC’s fakeumentary, enjoy another example of Stanley’s reactionary airheadedness from the LGM archives. The other thing to note is that even if it was true that Bill Clinton’s unreliable zipper distracted him from terrorism, this wasn’t […]
Month: September 2006
I’ll write more a bit later about Jeff Record’s latest on counter-insurgency, but I’d like to one of Matt’s comments. Wondering why the Confederacy didn’t engage in an in
Via Ezra, Ralph Peters wrote an outstanding column on modern warfare this week. Money quote: Precision-targeting systems and other superweapons are dangerously seductive to civilian leaders looking fo
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck and Nelson
Was there any doubt that Oregon State fans are Chamberlain-esque francophile appeasement lovers? I’d suggest that the Beavs hold off on getting that tougher non-conference schedule; when Boise S
Finally, a lefty blogger receives a screener and has a preview.
Lollapalooza – RaconteursDamn.
Remember Jonah Goldberg ripping off some hye-larious knee-slappers about pending hurricane victims? In the same spirit, Glenn Reynolds links to some reprehensible “satire” exhorting poor p
President Brags-About-Torture has sent commensurate legislation to Congress. Marty Lederman: This is the bill the Administration has sent up to Congress. Make no mistake, the most important action has
Dinesh D’Souza is, I’m afraid, back. And he has a new argument about 9/11: it’s America’s fault! Especially them damned uppity women: He argues that it is not our exercise of freedom that enrages our enemies, but our abuse of that freedom–including the sexual liberty of women, to the support of gay marriage, birth control, […]
I was planning on writing a post on Jack Shafer’s ruminations about the Siegel affair, but Lindsay said everything I had to say and more. Like Lindsay, I’m still wondering when someone at
[Part I. Part II.] Speaking of Michael Stokes Paulsen, he contributed a dissent to What Roe Should Have Said. Although the opinion betrays a sense of humor (the first footnote notes that Justice Balki