Some first-rate reporting by Garance Franke-Ruta, who finds that in addition to his other issues George Allen sat on the board of a company that sold a risible product, quickly burned through the capital it got through dubious connections, and ended in a hail of...
Author: Scott Lemieux
When you blog, you can never predict your reactions; sometimes posts you think will be provocative generate consensus, and post that express the most self-evident banalities generate controversy. The fact.
I would like to think that George Allen's recent bout of racist taunting (although, in fairness, who could have predicted that someone who worshipped the Confederate flag while growing up.
Shorter Ace of Spades: The only way to preserve liberal democracy is through state-sponsored racism and collective guilt. (Via alicublog.)
Atrios cherry-picked the best stuff, but George Will's conclusion (sniping at the "blogosphere" aside) seems worth quoting as well: The official is correct that it is wrong "to think that.
With respect to nutritionally unsound university dining, I note that my dorm cafeteria--in which everyone had to choose between two mass-cooked meals at a central dining hall rather than choosing.
I was happy to see Darcy's tribute to Randy Newman. I can't agree, however, that Randy Newman (Creates Something New Under the Sun) is a "disaster." Sure, its notably inferior to the three remarkable albums that followed it, but it has some of his finest...
Particularly if you remember how numerous wingnuts slandered her as an Islamofascist lackey (because, after all, statements you make at the point of a gun after months of captivity can.
Shorter Jeff Goldstein: The thwarting of a terrorist plot using lawful means proves that we need to use lawless methods to thwart terrorism. What's particularly funny about this, of course,.
For reasons I can't explain, and much to the annoyance of anyone unfortunate to be in my presence while reading the Friday newspaper, I've always been fascinated by the marketing of movies that studios know are destined to be massive commercial and critical bombs. The...
Joe Lieberman's favorite op-ed page, approvingly quoted by principled, non-partisan libertarian Glenn Reynolds: Let's emphasize that again: The plot was foiled because a large number of people were under surveillance.
"I regard it as a salutary doctrine that cities, states and the Federal Government must exercise their powers so as not to discriminate between their inhabitants except upon some reasonable.