Shorter Verbatim Blogs4Brownback: "I support the Bible, and I don’t want my children learning about Heliocentrism in school. I think this doctrine encourages atheism, Darwinism, and anti-Americanism. I don’t want my tax dollars going to finance this kind of false science. It’s complete rot, and...
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Adieu. That was painfully drawn out....Indeed:But to comprehend his doomed-ness and what to make of it, one needs to step back. Why was he given the job in the first.
Douglas Kmiec. Answer to title question: "No. No, they can't."
Ann Friedman, despite being a figment of my imagination, points us to this piece by the mythical Katha Pollitt:The video, originally posted on jebar.info, a Kurdish website, is now plastered all over the Internet: a young girl in a red track-suit jacket and black underpants,...
This thread reminds me to finally get around to articulating the following principle:As a discussion thread on a liberal blog grows longer, the probability of a troll indulging his (or,.
Thers quotes the first half of the Scalia quote approvingly cited by Ann Althouse. I'd like to deal with the second:"What Shakespeare is to the high school English student," Scalia.
This is a very good list, granting that #4 should probably be #1. Becks offers a good alternate suggestion. I would like to add this, which courtesy of Rob and frequent commenter JRD remains the greatest joke gift of all time. (And yes it does...
XM suspends Opie & Anthony 30 days for the hye-larious rape fantasies on their program. (I'm not going to say "jokes," because they weren't. They weren't even in the form.
I'm not sure what's more depressing about yesterday's debate--the current frontrunner enthusiastically and unequivocally supporting torture, or how well in went over in the audience. Obviously, Giuliani's authoritarianism is going.
Garance, Matt and zuzu have already amply demonstrated the bad faith, distortions, and selective evidence of the latest manifestation of Christina Hoff Sommers's feeble "American feminists don't care about the suppression of Islamic women" routine. And, of course, American feminists are in a no-win situation....
Nancy Nall has a very good and insightful post about the new biography of Warren Zevon compiled by his long -suffering (and suffering, and suffering) ex-wife Crystal, which was also.
To add to Matt's point that the perception that Wolfowitz is corrupt and hypocritical has actual consequences, it should also be noted that Wolfowitz is particularly vulnerable on this point.