New York Times reporter Scott Shane "informed us" Friday of the "legal debate" over whether the US government has a right to target assassinate summarily execute its own citizens: The notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens far from...
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Clark Hoyt writes about "semantic minefields" journalists walk through in reporting "objectively" on "contested concepts": Stuart Gardiner of San Francisco was incensed last month after The Times reported that the.
I'm not sure what was more painful, watching this game in general or listening to Tim McCarver repeatedly trying and failing to pronounce "Tuiasosopo."
Jackson Browne and David Lindley, London 1976
Recently I wrote about the need for Facebook alternatives. A team of NYU computer science students may have just the thing: Why can't privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand? That's the.
This is true: Thers' Fifth Iron Law of the Internets: Twice as many people have gone on the Internet to claim they stopped being liberals because of things said at.
Shouldn't a one-trick pony have a better trick? Although if you're going to base reactionary generalizations about gender and sexuality on (sometimes apocryphal) anecdotes proving an epidemic of orgies and the death of relationships among young adults, you might as well go all the way...
I guess the lesson is that the Bruins should avoid 3-0 leads of all kinds...
Via Linkmeister, it appears that the Republican senator from my state is worried that small oil producers who can't shoulder the risk will be deterred from imperiling offshore marine environment..
I've been having a conversation with the very sharp Silvana Naguib. Particularly since my general position on this is on the record, and I think the analysis applies to anybody Obama might have appointed, rather than turn this into the umpteenth Kagan post let's talk...
Shorter Erick Erickson: If, like me, you're not sufficiently literate to distinguish between normative and empirical arguments, than Elena Kagan is a total socialist!!!!!!! Because everybody pretty much believes everything.
Everyone needs to read Glenn Greenwald's analysis of the shift from denying basic human rights to non-US terror suspects under Bush/Cheney, to denying such rights to American citizens under Obama/Biden..