While I would like to believe the argument made here by Max Bergman, I’m afraid I’m a good deal less optimistic regarding the influence of Heritage: The hard right Heritage Foundation, one of the pillars of the conservative movement, made defeating START one of its top institutional priorities. Yet 13 Republican Senators ended up bucking […]
Year: 2010
While I love to see Ohio State fail, this case serves to exemplify the basic absurdity of big college athletics: Five players were found to have sold awards, gifts and university apparel, plus receive
Finished now with final exams, the giving, the grading, etc. Â I posted my National Security Policy final exam over at ID, along with some thoughts about the comprehensive exam process at Patterson. Â
The West thread below and its kin at Pandagon have yielded some excellent recommendations for music I should listen to on the long drive from rural Mississippi to the northern outskirts of Houston, but just in case those solid souls missed something essential, I thought I’d ask: What should I have listened to last year? […]
Colonel Mustard puts to lie the conservative claim to care about anything other than raw power: With a solid Republican majority in the House, the filibuster takes on less importance for Republicans.Â
A few points about Michael Lind’s argument here: Even if WikiLeaks is defined as a news organization, American law allows both prior injunctions halting publication of government secrets and pro
Rick Perlstein has a typically brilliant analysis.  Read the whole etc., but a preview: What happened between Brown v. Board of Education and that January day in 1970 comprises some of the most monstrous inhumanity in the cruel annals of American history. Recently, in a cover feature in the conservative Weekly Standard on his presidential […]
I finally finished the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy. (I was not expecting that ending, though in hindsight I’m not sure why.) For those of you unfamiliar with the dystopian premise: th
I hadn’t posted this here, but since Other Scott brought it up … Pitchfork and Rolling Stone have both declared Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the best album of 201
Shorter Arlen Specter:Â “I sat on the Judiciary Committee table throughout the second Bush administration, and I still haven’t spotted the sucker.”
The (largely merited) hype over My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has further helped to obscure the fact that Big Boi’s 2010 record was as or more accomplished, so I was glad to see Ann Powers t
I’m sure if the government of South Carolina gave Lanny Davis a sawbuck he’d be on every TV station in the country asserting that slavery had nothing to do with secession within the hour.