This is 100% right. Whatever label you want to apply to the policy of "making sure that the parties of an extremely bloody civil war are even better armed and trained, and maybe keeping enough troops to move insurgent attacks to City B from City...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Huh. I'm assuming that the point shaving didn't involve betting on teams with superstar players -- the mob is probably smart enough not to pay for the arbitrariness it's already.
Reading the article excerpts referenced by d. below, is it just me or isn't the first story Goldfarb discusses -- about some soldiers making fun of a woman horribly disfigured.
J. beat me to it, but Marc Ambinder is obviously dead wrong to say that "John Edwards's haircut was a valid story to cover." The idea that only poor people, or more relevantly to a presidential campaign people who pretend to be poor, can advocate...
Deep Thoughts, by Rudy Giuliani.
In fights like this, there are no winners. Well, except for connoisseurs of inadvertent comedy....
Who could have predicted it? Taking away resources that could have been used to actually go terrorists that posed a potential threat to American civilians in order to destroy a state that posed no significant security threat to the United States and replace it with...
The real problem with the news today is that people just don't get any historical context. What about the legendary filibusters of civil rights legislation led by Hubert Humphrey and.
This is quite remarkably disgusting. I'm glad that his celebrity didn't prevent him from being indicted for torturing animals for profit.
Hilzoy has more on Anne Applebaum's crazy strawman-building tactics. Personally, perhaps because I'm more cynical, I didn't check the empirical claim because I wouldn't have been shocked had no Democratic politician had been fully candid; it wouldn't be unusual for politicians not to point out...
As a follow-up to Bean's post below, I will once again note that, as long as the 14th Amendment remains unamended, the necessary consequence of fetal personhood is that anyone.
Noted paragon of civility Robert Novak expresses a need for a fainting couch -- apparently some ladies are being insufficiently dainty.