I'm not saying this is on the level of LBJ ordering pants, but Richard Nixon talking about panda mating patterns is not something you expected to hear when you woke up this morning. And look, he got his information from Bob Haldeman, so you know...
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Another domino falls.
The fundamentals in 2016 are unbelievably in favor of a Hillary blowout. Obviously things can change of course.
Where does the fault lie for the problems between Israel and Palestine? As John Judis correctly points out, it lies heavily with Israel. In part: Israel is one of the world’s last colonial powers, and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are its...
It's entirely possible that in 100 years, historians will look back on the early 21st century United States and remark not only on the racist prison system that shows how.
"This blog post made me look ridiculous! And a Chief Justice of the United States cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous!" Not that I can blame Halbig defenders.
For the plutocrats, the real outrage is that income inequality hasn't grown by more. Give it another 5 years: Economic inequality in the United States has been receiving a lot of attention. But it’s not merely an issue of the rich getting richer. The typical...
I was unaware that Stanley Kubrick had made a documentary about the Seafarers International Union in 1953. I have not seen it, but it is now available here, although I.
Sarah Palin should win the Nobel Prize for Grifting.
Shorter Ann Althouse: We must maintain a horribly costly, arbitrary, racially discriminatory drug prohibition regime...for the children!!!!!! And...science!!! If the case of tobacco has proven anything, there is no way of regulating second-hand smoke and access to minors without throwing lots of people in prison. ...
There were many annoying things about the news media’s recent re-discovery of the new conservative intellectuals – among them, the argument from Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry and his ilk that the reformicons.
So many questions. I recommend clicking around the linked web site on your own, but here are a few representative excerpts: The reindeer (carribou) is the mascot of the Alaska.