Staunch feminist Glenn Reynolds, after linking to an idiotic McPaper op-ed attacking Nancy Pelosi for doing the same thing Newt Gingrich did (although, for some reason, the Clinton administration didn’t try to use his trip to gin up a pseudo-scandal for particularly dimwitted rubes), says this: Interestingly, I think that the more Pelosi acts like […]
Month: April 2007
Gulf Times, via Juan Cole: Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Bleichwehl said troops, facing scattered resistance, discovered a factory that produced “explosively formed penetrators” (EFPs), a particularly
Exhibit Z. Well, at least we can be reassured that his assertions of unlimited executive power won’t extent to providing health care for poor working people, who frankly deserve to die if they &
My colleagues are using words and phrases like “matrix,” “metrics,” “buy-in,” “accreditation review,” and “paperless society.” I, however, have been watching this for the past 45 minutes:
Scott and Ezra, predictably enough, have rushed to judgment on the question of Iraq’s ties to Al Qaeda. Sure, we could rely on declassified reports that undermine one of the administration’
Shockingly enough, assertions about operational connections between Iraq and Al-Qaeda turn out to be…completely bogus! Who would have thunk it? And just to pre-empt any claims that this is a str
I have a discussion of Jan Crawford Greenburg’s new book up at TAP. The most valuable part of the book, I argue, is that it emphasizes how contingent the (relative) moderation of the late Rehnquist Court was. To excerpt one point: The most sophisticated denial strategy is to point out that the Court rarely stays […]
Jessica breaks it down; read the whole etc. Elsewhere, Ann Althouse uses the article to once again to repeat a shamelessly misleading narrative about the incident, pretending that her silly, oft-refut
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck and Nelson
Matt refers to a Richard Bush and Michael O’Hanlon discussion of the potential “rules” for a war between China and the United States over Taiwan. I think that this is a really interesting idea; antagonists often agree, if only informally, to limit forceful interactions to particular channels that avoid the possibility of larger, more destructive […]
Shorter Krauthammer: The EU is responsible for Britain’s humiliation by Iran. Really, it’s almost sad that Krauthammer represents what passes for a right-wing intellectual these days. Firs
Looks like steam catapults on aircraft carriers are finally going out of style. The newly-named USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the first of the next generation of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, and with