David Corn euthanizes Christopher Hitchens. For more than two decades, I have seen Hitchens weave facts and assertions into stylistically brilliant copy as he attempts to intuit great truths. But when he comes to believe that he can outthink the facts, he ends up enwrapped...
Month: September 2006
Shorter Dan Riehl: This picture of the professor and his wife proves that he must have been--just like several other people--lying about the racism of a guy who admired the.
Mel Gibson's anti-semitic tirade wasn't quite enough to drive away Michael Medved, who wrote at the time:Rather than driving this tormented, self-destructive, deeply disturbed but vastly talented artist into the.
One thing worth noting about the Eric Boehlert piece that's being widely discussed is that it focuses on the Blumenthal book. At least based on the Salon columns I read, I would agree that this part of the Senior review was problematic. I have to...
Chock full o' futuriness (via Defense News, subscription required):China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese.
Amanda on the silly lawsuits filed by "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" in order to burden clincs that actually provide useful medical services to women:From R. Mildred (whose take on this whole.
I mentioned it briefly in an earlier Posner post, but as an addendum to Matt's point it's worth spelling it out clearly. Apologists for Bush's program of abitrary executive power that includes the power to torture assure us that this power will be limited to...
Michiko Kakutani reviews Richard Posner's new book. I've already discussed some of the problems have with his arguments as he's sketched them out in interviews, and I'll probably read and.
Heh.When, on CNN, Alexander M. Haig Jr., the former secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, belittled the report as the product of liberal journalists, Richard C. Holbrooke, the United.
Greg, Josh, and Atrios beat up on Dean Broder's ludicrous new celebration of an "independence" that, as the complete cave-in on the torture bill indicates, doesn't actually exist irrespective of the moral import of the issue. Rather than pile on in this case, Somerby allows...
The Imperial Japanese Navy was not completely satisfied with its first effort at super-dreadnoughts, the Fuso class. Japanese naval architects slightly modified the design to include more protection and a.
Vladimir Bukovsky:So, why would democratically elected leaders of the United States ever want to legalize what a succession of Russian monarchs strove to abolish? Why run the risk of unleashing.