I get some comments now and again on Russia posts accusing me of being alarmist. I don't think that's true; rather, I think that the Russian defense establishment has undertaken an effort to become as alarming as possible. Exhibit Z-12:Russia has tested the world's most...
Month: September 2007
Light posting will continue for another couple days, as I am in Chicago to give a talk at the Northwestern Law School tomorrow. I'm staying at a lovely hotel in.
Bill Donohue -- yes, that Bill Donohue -- is up to his old antics again. This time, he's got Kathy Griffin in his sights. The "Life on the D-List" star.
Six years ago today, four airplanes -- hijacked by a small army of freedom-hating suiciders, lesbians, civil libertarians, Islamofascists (and their appeasers), stem-cell researchers, Francophiles, historical revisionists and unelected judges -- descended through the gaping national security hole pried open by Bill Clinton's eight years...
You may remember the JAMA study which showed that the range of weight generally defined as "overweight" (as opposed to normal, underweight, or obese) was actually associated with the best.
This fall, for the third year in a row, New York's Urban Justice Center is hosting the Vendy Awards, a fundraiser cum tribute for their street vendor project, which fights.
Apparently, among the many other bad side effects, the massive amount of corn being grown is pushing up the price of other commodities. For example, "Heineken, the brewery giant, said beer prices might have to be raised because so many crops are being planted and...
Many thanks to our regular reader Howard for favoring me with some hot jazz selections from my wish list: namely, Abbey Sings Abbey and Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian..
I haven't seen this article cited elsewhere, but Jane Hamsher points to the inspiration for MoveOn's "Betray Us" headline, about which many an indignant fist has been shaken today.After being.
Either I missed my dear Liptak last week, or he was off for Labor Day. Either way, he's back in action today, with a column about the FISA court , recent federal court decisions requiring it to be more open, and the Bush administration's constant...
If you've ever read the half-baked, foul-mouthed philistinism otherwise known as "My Posts" and wondered by what satanic collusion I managed to land a job outside the temp industry, now.
Attaturk notices the most salient aspect of yesterday's Tom Friedman joint. If you actually needed a war to figure out the staggeringly obvious fact that the utter lack of the.