In an article about China assuming its place at the table of great powers comes this passage:In the past several weeks China Central Television has broadcast a 12-part series describing the reasons nine nations rose to become great powers. The series was based on research...
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Sullivan:But let me say this in defense of Althouse. She is at least conceding that the shameful treatment of Padilla is worth discussing. And her defense of the sadism is.
Huh. Reading Greenwald and Drum makes me wonder whether the smart political move for the Democrats isn't to wholly embrace the ISG report, count on the assumption that the Bush.
In a Congressional Quarterly piece flagged by Ygelsias, we're reminded that racism's conceptual grammar is quite mobile:If President Bush and some of his closest associates, not to mention top counterterrorism officials, have demonstrated their own ignorance about who the players are in the Middle East,...
From yesterday's press conference with the Poodle:Q Mr. President, the Iraq Study Group described the situation in Iraq as grave and deteriorating. You said that the increase in attacks is.
I have a post at TAPPED about Jeffrey Rosen's touting of John Roberts's would-be "centrist" justification for upholding "partial-birth" abortion legislation that should clearly struck down based on the current.
Chuckle.I for one understand that Christmas is the only thing standing between me and my lifelong dream of euthanizing my relatives, grabbing their inheritance, buying lots of drugs, getting a sex change, and marrying a lesbian. If Nancy Pelosi is as dedicated to her San...
Thank Jeebus that I don't think she can actually win the Democratic primary. (I hope somebody's taking a lot of pictures of today's Joementum.)
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, the use of litigation has caused gay rights to be an incredibly divisive issue that will tear Canadian politics apart for generations. Or not:Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared the contentious issue of same-sex marriage to be permanently closed.After...
Via Trend...In an interview with Reuters, Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation, said, "Gibson replays, in glorious big budget Technicolor, an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were.
With the semester's teaching responsibilities successfully vanquished, I can now devote myself (with a more or less sober mind) to the important tasks at hand -- namely, writing up a.