My latest at WPR concerns the exceedingly low likelihood that a Progressive-Tea Party understanding will develop on defense spending: However, hopes for a less-hawkish Republican congressional caucus probably won’t come to fruition, for two reasons. First, budgetary concerns almost always fall victim to parochial interest. New GOP representatives will likely defend Defense Department and military […]
Month: November 2010
Electoral reform has been one area where the cumbersome amendment process established by Article V hasn’t been a huge barrier. With the unusual exception of the 14th, the bulk of the substan
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Some random link in lieu of actual blogging. General apologies for the slowness; things picking up at school, column takes up some of my writing time, etc. But I read… Stephen Walt is simple and brutal in his analysis of George W. Bush’s decisions. Why Caprica failed. I think that this is mostly right; the […]
Derek Jeter, after one atypically mediocre defensive season, this year was back to being the 32nd best defensive shortstop in the majors according to the +/- rankings, with similar evaluations in othe
Shorter Verbatim one of the Powerline stooges: “The purpose of the Marines is to fight America’s enemies. It is no [sic] part of their purpose to facilitate the self-actualization of gay
I have recently read a book entitled Inventing Collateral Damage in which the authors argue, among other things, that that concept of collateral damage was created for and in fact serves the purpose of allowing military officials to shrug off or gloss over the civilians they are indifferently killing in high-tech wars. I found this […]
What I don’t get is why Selig would feel the need to endorse this particular lie. What, people are going to stop coming to Cooperstown unless more people accept fairly tales about how the
What Drum says here is correct: Democratic spinelessness on this is worth mocking. But let’s get real: the problem isn’t with Senate Democrats, 97% of whom voted to repeal DADT in Septembe
Amazing how for conservatives — including winger heroes like Owen, Garza, and Clement — their much-alleged free speech libertarianism is likely to vanish when corporations spending money isn’t involved. In fairness, it must be noted that even if she thinks that state officials can compel someone to cheer for their rapist, she’s a bang-up Sunday […]
Defending the Obama administration’s decision to appeal the ruling holding DADT unconstitutional, Joe From Lowell asserted: The GOP is going to vote for the Defense Authorization bill. It is a m
Apparently some people somewhere are enthusiastic about Mitch Daniels: I spoke this morning to John McKay, a Chicago-area businessman who runs Switch2Mitch.org, which has launched a petition drive to