James Carroll: THE PENTAGON was built to wage wars abroad, but much of its war-making has been inside the building. Interservice rivalry is a hackneyed phrase that fails to convey either the brutality of the bureaucratic infighting over budgets and resources that has always defined the place, or the actual cost in blood, treasure, and a […]
Month: January 2014
As I’ve argued at some length, the crucial problem with the argument that the contraception mandate violates RFRA is that holding that the mandate constitutes a “substantial burden”
Not a surprise: The Supreme Court on Monday blocked further same-sex marriages in Utah while state officials appeal a decision allowing such unions. The terse order, from the full court, issued a stay
Law School Lemmings is a two-month old web site, that features Twitter messages from prospective and current law students. In legal cyberspace, “lemming” has become a metaphor for the behavior of naive mostly young people, who heedlessly hurl themselves into a world of enormous non-dischargeable debt and poor employment prospects. The site also provides readers […]
Former NLRB member Craig Becker on an extremely disturbing decision by the 5th Circuit that effectively creates what he terms a “rightless workplace.” Unnoticed except by employment lawyer
The Republican War on Women, Texas Edition, is having the precise effects Rick Perry and the gang hoped: In the Rio Grande Valley, Whole Woman’s Health CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller told msnbc, doctors ar
Although urban planners and environmentalists worry about these issues constantly, the blind faith by which most people involved with western development have assumed that water supplies would be found is amazing and disturbing. “There is no planning for a continuation of the drought we’ve had,” said one expert on the Colorado’s woes, who asked not […]
In a hot new report, a person who will never again hold elected office was once involved in a scandalous scandal of truly scandalous behavior: Interesting that one of the most vocal and often-quoted s
R.I.P. I recently finished Crystal Zevon’s oral history of her late husband. The Everlys play a fairly prominent role in the book, as Zevon was their bandleader during the period between his fai
The snowstorm bearing down upon Lexington has resulted in the cancellation of school tomorrow, meaning that a theoretical productive day has now become a Happy Family Day. Fortunately, I’ve already finished my Defense Statecraft syllabus and my Airpower syllabus. The Defense Statecraft blog is about to enter its 10th year of service. Podcasts for Defense […]
In this thread there was some discussion of Mark Kleiman’s position on marijuana criminalization, which he recently reiterated and summarized here. Unlike some commentors, I view Kleiman as a valuab
Via… Here I have fun with Ben Shapiro’s latest. Americans were told by the media that Obama’s competence mattered less than the fact that half the country was mean, nasty, racist and hom