Although I was mildly surprised that Tony Blair admitted on BBC 2 that he smacked his older children, that statement was hardly, to me, the most interesting part of the program. The most interesting thing to me about the conversation was that it happened at...
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The expansion of the blogosphere continues unabated. Check out The Reaction with Michael Stickings, and Blue Force, a defense blog including Armchair Generalist, Stygius, and others.
The Liberals, in the midst of what looks like a dismal bellyflop into the upcoming election, came out with an attempted debate bombshell: eliminate Canada's "notwithstanding clause," which permits provincial.
Yglesias on the Stiglitz study:They make a solid case for a $700 billion to $1,000 billion direct cost plus some fairly uncertain macro consequences. Of course, on the one hand this seems like an odd way to think about a question of war and peace.But...
Altmouse liveblogs the Alito hearings, after her incisive take on Alito's opening statement.(This really is a remarkably good parody. It's hard, because Althouse is so self-paradoic in any case, but.
One thing about the exposure of James Frey's "searing" drug-addiction memoir as a fraud: it's produced some great writing. James Wolcott, for example:I'm just automatically suspicious of every tale of.
There really is something remarkable about Alito using the all-purpose GOP "you hate the troops!" card in order to justify his membership in an explicitly racist and sexist organization that had nothing to do with military issues (and which, oddly, except for his highly detailed...
Jill at Feministe notes an interesting Townhall discussion of Alito's invocation of Griswold at the hearings, which sees in Alito's argument about the shifting rationales for the right to privacy.
So I made my first visit to Madison Square Garden tonight, and although the outcome was worse for my rooting interests than my trip to the Meadowlands earlier this year,.
I saw Norah O'Donnell this morning claiming that Alito's support of the "right to privacy" is somehow meaningful. As Nancy Keenan correctly notes:Under the first round of questions from Senator Specter, Samuel Alito did not refute his record of opposition to Roe v. Wade. He...
The Others freaks me the hell out, even after the fourth or fifth viewing. Part of this has to do with the creepy little girl theme, perfected in Kubrick's The.
For those of you who don't read the long, boring articles, let me briefly summarize why Alito's elevation to the court will be extremely bad for reproductive rights, with links.