Randy Paul helpfully explains why Castro is bad even if he led only the 34th worst regime since 1900. Police state dictatorships are never particularly admirable; it seems to me that US policy should in general be that the institutions of such regimes ought to change in broadly democratic directions. This doesn’t imply that all […]
Month: February 2008
Shorter Peggy Noonan: I would respect Mr. and Mrs. Obama more if they were sharecroppers.
Now that they’ve burned our embassy, does this count as the start of Serbia “being at war with us?” Or could we start counting from 1999? Or 1995? Listen, all I want to know is when
When undergraduates bother to write titles for their papers, they tend not to be very good. I offer the rare exception to the rule, from a just-submitted essay addressing the domestic politics of the early Cold War: “Best Contain Yo’ Self Before Communism Claim Yo’ Self.” I dunno. Maybe it’s the unseasonably nice weather we’re […]
The myth that never dies.
I’m not quite sure how to sum this up, but it’s sung by a white guy from the vantage point of a black guy describing his pride at having fought on behalf of the white guy who owned him. If
Most of our readers are familiar with wingnut pharmacists claiming that they should be exempt from doing their jobs for religious reasons. In Canada, some doctors are apparently extending this to pap smears.
Happy birthday to George Washington.
I had it on while doing other work and then watched it at the gym, so I didn’t see at all, but it should be noted that I don’t know whether it’s happy or sad that it was surprising t
Ezra and The World’s Most Dangerous Professor get in some shots before the plug is officially pulled. And, indeed, the late Penn/Ickes era of strategery is pretty much begging for mockery. What, for example, is this trying to accomplish? It’s 1)silly-to-appalling on the merits (with the particularly high comedy of a campaign dedicated to arguing […]
Maybe we’re tired of the picking apart of Knocked Up, 4 Months, and Juno, and the search for messages about abortion in the films. But, just in case, Howard Wasserman at Prawfsblog has an intere
Julian Sanchez is probably right that in order to refute Andy McCarthy’s claim that the Sixth Circuit rejecting the ACLU’s standing to sue over the the Bush administration’s wireless