Althouse: And I don't know much about Castle, but why was a 70-year-old man running for a first term in the Senate? That struck me as self-centered vanity at odds with the interests of his party — which was particularly suspect given his RINO record....
Month: September 2010
You may remember that forgotten-but-not-gone GOP hack Rick Lazio attempted to resurrect his long-dead political career by fomenting hatred about the Burlington Coat Factory community center. Amusingly, this was not.
Congratulations to the Republican primary voters of Delaware; I definitely would have voted the same way!
Over the summer the issue of global traffic fatalities began to move up the media agenda cycle in the US. This prompted blog discussions over the social construction of "problems," especially why we care so much about terrorism which kills almost no one, and so...
It's all about the heritage.
Well, this is certainly a surprise. If only peer-reviewed scientific evidence was as meaningful as random celebrity anecdotes!
I have an article up at World Politics Review on the Naval Operations Concept and the Cooperative Maritime Strategy. The article is part of a feature on maritime security, including Abraham Denmark and Zachary Hosford's piece on China's naval buildup and Mark Valencia's examination of...
Shorter Col. Mustard: The attacks on Marty Peretz are grossly unfair. He didn't literally say that Muslims should be deprived of First Amendment rights; he merely said that they were.
Shorter Gerard Alexander: If someone with Haley Barbour's impeccable credentials as a civil rights activist tells a transparently ridiculous story about how race had nothing to do with the GOP.
Lionel Beehner and Niels Smith duel on reasons for the defeat of the Tamil Tigers. Beehner: It was brute military force, not political dialogue or population control, which ended its brutal decades-long war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, a...
I would like to note that the following two sentences appeared consecutively in David Brooks' most recent column (my emphasis): By contrast, in 2007, 58 percent of male Harvard graduates.
Shorter verbatim Camille Paglia*: "However, the main point is that the young Madonna was on fire. She was indeed the imperious Marlene Dietrich’s true heir. For Gaga, sex is mainly.