I wouldn't say that Huckelberry Graham has replaced his buddy Joe Lieberman as America's Most Odious Preening Politician. But he's up there. This review becomes even funnier and more pathetic when you remember that Podhoretz strongly objects to being called an aesthetic Stalinist. Ann gets...
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Nineteen, it seems. This story has evidently been making the rounds for a few weeks now, though I somehow managed not to hear about it. For background detail, the place.
As part of my research project on what does and doesn't count as a "human security" problem in the minds of practitioners, I've collected quite a few ideas about "neglected".
There is, of course, no defense for Helen Thomas's anti-Semitic remarks, and in isolation the consequences are unobjectionable. But why Pat Buchanan remains a constant presence on The Serious TeeVee News is also hard to defend or explain, just as I have yet to understand...
Apologies for the light non-existent posting of late; I'm on vacation this week. Apparently, while I was away Glenn Reynolds became a complete hack! Oh wait... Anyway, I would be.
So it appears that David Brooks has penned an entire column premised on the observation that a century of social science has failed to provide satisfying explanations for why oil.
From Christpher Beam at Slate: A powerful thunderstorm forced President Obama to cancel his Memorial Day speech near Chicago on Monday—an arbitrary event that had no affect on the trajectory of American politics. Obama now faces some of the most difficult challenges of his young...
Mildly amusing exchange of emails between U.S. and UK ambassadors, in re one of those silly sporting bets that politicos make every time the Battle of Waterloo is about to.
The pussification of the American male continues, as Orrin caves to the aggressive economic demands of his inferiors. You can get complete access to our 70-580; pass4sure mcse and 70-351.
It's dismaying. While it doesn't seem to get discussed much, the dissent in Miller-El is part of the context that makes Parents Involved so infuriating. Invoking glib tautologies in defense of a "color-blind constitution" becomes pretty hard to sustain when you're unable to find any...
Libertarian food fight!
These visualizations are credited to Matt McKeon. If you go to his website, you can track the gradual shift in FB's privacy settings by year. These graphs are only updated.