Even though I'd generally prefer not to appoint another Republican to Defense ceteris paribus, I'm now entirely convinced that he's the best of the viable choices. By the way, did Jennifer Rubin actually take over for Fred Hiatt?
Month: December 2012
My bottom line: "It says something about Bork's constitutional vision that accurately restating his public views has become synonymous with the dirtiest of dirty tricks." Along similar lines, Jeffrey Toobin.
What if Napoleon had had a B-17 at the battle of Waterloo? What if Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia had been on the Supreme Court at the same time for.
Well, it seems that we have passed peak wingnut (warning: Reynolds link ahead) and I can peek my head above the metaphorical bunker again. I'm at the point where I'm pretty bloody angry with myself for using language intemperate enough to open the door to...
More at the Diplomat on airpower and "soft power": The Navy’s vision of smart diplomacy can integrate and accommodate the growth of Chinese maritime power, depending on how responsibly China.
This needs to become a meme: j.ottopohl posted a comment in He's a Lumberjack, and He's OK: The Wobbly Scholarship of Erik Loomis, Ph.D. · 18 hours ago I am.
Ever the optimist, I figured the McArdle was simply unbeatable in the "jaw-dropping winger reactions to Newtown" sweepstakes. But never end a competition until the NRO has spoken! Charlotte Allen has now lapped the field. ("Weak, passive women administrators would never resist a shooter. Except...
Knoxville police announced this afternoon that a badly beaten rhetorical device, believed to be that of Irony, was found in a dumpster behind the University of Tennessee Law School. Police.
Thanks to Crooked Timber for this, and to Duck of Minerva for this.
I'm just going to have to assume that in ordinary, grammatically complex conversations with actual human beings, these folks are simply unable to carry on for longer than five minutes without pissing themselves with rage. So summarize: Joyce Carol Oates wonders NRA members might become...
The conservatives currently hounding Erik clearly never read this post. If they had, they'd realize that there's a difference between a gun control advocate saying someone needs to be shot.
My thoughts are similar to Scott's (now includes Warren Zevon content).