I mostly agree with what Ezra says here, here, and here about David Brooks Surge column. I would diverge slightly in regards to his discussion of the four trends that have led to a decrease in violence; Ezra lists the Sadrist truce, the Awakening strategy,...
Month: June 2008
While recognizing the general principle that prisoners, even in Afghanistan, ought to have some contact with the outside world, I have to question the wisdom of allowing this:This month's spectacular.
Good one. (Via Jessica Crispin.)
A correspondent notes that today is the 20th anniversary of Tyson-Spinks:
Now you know:Social equality should not mean that blacks can take pride in any part of history they choose (even if their self-proclaimed leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Malcolm.
To follow up on Dana's excellent analysis of Jim Wallis's latest bit of abortion concern-trolling, I continue to be irritated by these kinds of assertions:Without calling for restrictions such as parental consent laws, Wallis believes that if the Democrats were to alter their abortion platform,...
Stories like this make Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's jobs too easy.Larry Craig and David Vitter have just co-sponsored the "Marriage Protection Amendment" -- a law that would "protect" the.
I have to agree with Noah; the evidence for inter-service tension between the Army and the Air Force in this article is largely inferential. Shanker relates some anecdotes about Army.
There's something of a curious disconnect between two passages of Scalia's opinion in Heller:After an exhaustive discussion of the arguments for and against gun control, Justice Breyer arrives at his interest-balanced answer: because handgun violence is a problem, because the law is limited to an...
Great point by Sandy Levinson: If one had any reason to believe that either Scalia or Stevens was a competent historian, then perhaps it would be worth reading the pages.
If you're not reading David Axe, you should be. So what鈥檚 happening, and why should you care? In a world increasingly inhabited by the homeless and displaced, Chad is the.