Good Christ, the idiocy is flowing like wine this morning from the right. It's hardly surprising that right-wing bloggers can't tell the difference between the argument that a) North Korea won't test another nuke, and b) a North Korean nuclear test doesn't matter; they are,...
Month: May 2009
Last week I spoke with Vanda Felbab-Brown of Brookings about gangsters, pirates, insurgents, and weak states. Here we talk a bit about the violence of the Mexican drug cartels:Vanda also.
Not that anyone expected otherwise, but it remains unfortunate. I do suspect, though, that there's at least some political positioning going on here, emphasizing the moderation of even pretty liberal.
The Only Championship Team I Will Ever Cheer For won its only championship 20 years ago today. (The last remaining member of the team hung it up this year too.) Since I'm a Flames fan, though, it feels even longer than 20 years...
A writer for the Weekly Standard begins with the premise that opposition to same-sex marriage is not always motivated by anti-gay bigotry or fundamentalist nonsense. He then goes on to.
Ronald Reagan received well-deserved scorn in 1985 for visiting Kolmeshöhe Cemetery, where several dozens of SS members were buried; even so, the circumstances of that visit could at least be.
...to go after a fraudulent religion just because it comes from the United States:The Church of Scientology's French branch went on trial on Monday on charges of organised fraud, in a case that could lead to the group being dissolved in France. Registered as a...
Performance this year notwithstanding, this is a beautiful picture for any Mariner fan:
Made by Charlie Savage:Most of the half-dozen or so candidates Mr. Obama is weighing have little by which to gauge whether their appointment might create a majority with greater sympathy.
The catchy title is intended to obscure the fact that I have nothing useful to say on North Korea's second nuclear test. Seems to have gone better than the first one. Will probably make the Japanese even more twitchy.
The answer, of course, is "no." While it's true that Theodore Roosevelt favored spelling reform, one assumes he wasn't thinking of his own name as a candidate for revision. This.
As always, this Robert Samuelson column is an utter embarrassment, starting with his typical indefensible conflation of Medicare and Social Security to pretend that they're both poised to blow up.