Particularly if it puts me alongside the immense moral authority of the people who run Augusta National, I’m afraid I’m going to have to join the Editors in taking a firm stand on principle, irrespective of the great sacrifices it may entail: I learned on the news today that Tiger Woods has been putting his […]
Month: April 2010
No huge surprise here, but John Paul Stevens will be resigning this summer. [UPDATE: more from Liptak.] I hope Obama will consider that since 1916 this seat on the Court has been held by three-just-
Perhaps. I was unaware of this trio prior to reading about them over at UK Polling Report, which is odd as I’ve been reading The Times‘ soccer (football) coverage for the past ten years.
Lt. Miroslav Steven Zilberman: Hundreds of mourners gathered Thursday at Norfolk Naval Station to pay tribute to Lt. Miroslav “Steve” Zilberman, a Navy pilot killed last week when his plane crashed into the North Arabian Sea after mechanical difficulties. Zilberman, 31, was lauded as a hero whose actions in the cockpit saved the lives of […]
One curious line of reasoning used by many who defend appalling exercises like Confederate History month is to attempt to muddy the waters by observing that Lincoln, the Republicans, or “the Nor
While I would not go as far as Jon Savage, quoted in the BBC piece as saying “Without Malcolm McLaren there would not have been any British punk”, it is indisputable that McLaren had a mas
In attempting to defend the indefensible, John Guardino says that picking on Bob McDonnell’s celebration of pro-slavery treason is unfair because many Confederate soldiers were not personally motivated by slavery. Actually, even more pathetically he says that people who believe that treason in defense of slavery is nothing to celebrate in 2010 are “race-baiting.” Obviously, […]
I’m really looking forward to flying out of Denver later this morning, after last night’s latest outbreak of rampant hysteria and stupidity. Because this guy is a diplomat he isn’t g
My piece on the NPR is up at TAP. Changing nuclear weapons policy means negotiating with a vast national security bureaucracy — involving the Pentagon, the State Department, the Department of En
Revolution has a new look.
I have a short article up at World Politics Review about the sale of the French Mistrals to Russia: France’s decision to negotiate the sale of four Mistral-class Amphibious Transport Docks to Ru
except when it’s private. Shorter NYT: the Chairman of the prestigious country club located in Georgia that somehow still doesn’t admit women in the year 2010 rebuked some guy for disrespe