Poor, poor Washington, D.C. Stuck under the thumb of the Federal government and unable to stretch its independent legs. Washington, D.C. is the city with the fastest HIV/AIDS rate in the country — it’s growing 10 times faster than the national average. According to recent CDC reports, the rate of new cases of HIV/AIDS in […]
Month: July 2007
Read Gene Healy’s fantastic post on conservatives and Presidential power. No principles, not even bad, historically and constitutionally indefensible ones.
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck and Nelson
The Reds are quite terrible, but fortunately the Giants are also terrible. 6-3 for the Redlegs. Random observations: I go to a game with Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr., and Adam Dunn, and it’s Bronson Arroyo that hits a home run? Josh Hamilton is really a great reclamation for the Reds, just as Brandon Phillips […]
It really does become harder to believe that Islamic fundamentalism is the dire existential threat of the day when it becomes clear that, just a few years ago, the people who cry the loudest about Isl
This is the fourth of a nine part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List. 1. China’s Trapped Transition, Minxin Pei2. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs3. Illicit, Moises Naim4. In Sp
With respect to the disgraceful Libby commutation, Laura of 11D provides some interesting data about how likely a petitioner not connected with the Bush administration is to get a pardon or commutation by historical standards. On an individual level, a recent Supreme Court case provides another example. In Rita v. U.S., the Supreme Court recently […]
You will be happy to know that Libertas, home of Conservative Thought (sic) About Film (sic) has screened the latest Michael Bay joint and declared in free from wrongthink. Another amusing thing about
There was a lot of nervous chatter when gmail was introduced about the google ads that would run in the sidebars of people’s emails. Though the anxiety was allayed — a little — when
I wrote last night about what I thought was the most glaring irony of the Libby commutation. I should have thought, when Scott brought Karla Faye Tucker into the discussion, to look back at Bush’s Texas record for greater irony and disgust. A letter to the editor in today’s NY Times did it for me. […]
A bunch of people ask some really interesting questions in these two threads, questions that I think are deserving on their own post. lemuel pitkin writes: I think if you reframe the question away fro
Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of The Washington Post. The Washington Post sums up the sharp rightward turn made inevitable by the judicial nominees whose confirmation they endorsed: “t