Shorter Condi Rice: We didn't want to do anything illegal responding to 9/11. Happily, if the President does it, it's not illegal! I also think that Iran is a fair standard for evaluating our country's human rights record.
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Yep:There are perhaps only two groups of people who view knowledge as a flaw, and ignorance as an asset: Seventh-graders, and the Washington press corps.
I'm generally opposed to the idea of national anthems before sporting events in principle, but hockey games in Chicago justify the practice.
A superb choice.
Lithwick and Savage bring the depressing news about yesterday's oral argument in the case in which a 13-year-old young woman was strip-searched by school officials because of an entirely uncorroborated.
I realize that it's factually true that Newt Gingrich has a doctorate in history and that this peculiar fact illuminates, in a weird way, many of the deeply silly ideas.
The latest entry to the site's Hall of Fame:There is something funny going on here, if not exactly where Cooper, Maddow and Sullivan find it. Cooper is widely reputed to be homosexual. Maddow and Sullivan are of course public homosexuals. It is funny in an...
We're now to part 17 of our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. I am told that there is the possibility that the second half of.
In the thread about the Madoff scam a couple days ago, Weiner noted this classic analysis of various scams from Teresa Nielsen Hayden. As it happens, spending my college.
(cf.)The most amazing part of my trip to Jack in the Box is that I didn’t walk into the restaurant intending to order a steak teriyaki bowl.After digging around beneath the seats of my car and rummaging through my pockets -- like any good quarterback...
Barney Frank's recognition of Antonin Scalia's contempt for gays and lesbians has gotten predictable pushback from the likes of Fox News and Ann Althouse. The latter asserts that Frank is.
Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating AirportVia the Lede.