I agree with Kevin Drum; the proposition that John McCain can't be beaten in 2008 is indefensible on its face. I remain unconvinced that McCain will be able to fight his way through the Republican primary, but even if he does, I see no call...
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Via Barbara, I see that it's not just Lieberman but ace uncoverer of Islamofascist conspiracies in the Travel section of the New York Times Tom Maguire who is trying to.
Yglesias:People should really listen to Robert Pape.And, for that matter, read his book.I concur and would add:Read his other book, too. And Mia Bloom's book.
Apparently the apples became bad partly because they were poisoned:Military prosecutors and investigators probing the killing of three Iraqi detainees by U.S. troops in May believe the unit's commanders created an atmosphere of excessive violence by encouraging "kill counts" and possibly issuing an illegal order...
As Henry Farrell and Larry Solum note, political theory has lost a major voice before her time. University of Chicago obit here.The distinction between political theory and political philosophy can.
As I mentioned recently, I thought I would devote some time to discuss some of the arguments made in Jack Balkin's new book, What Roe Should Have Said. (Balkin describes.
Uh...The Bush administration said it viewed attempts by Venezuela or other countries to influence the transition in Cuba as unwarranted intervention. “The president is worried about people in the neighborhood who seek to destabilize neighbors using economic or other means,” Mr. Snow said.
Shorter Verbatim K-Lo: "Mel Gibson might be my favorite feminist. If he's not number one on my list, he's pretty close, in competition with Pope John Paul II."UPDATE BY ROB:.
Ah, I see that the Republicans are funding a Useful Idiot Green Useful Idiot Party candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate election. Makes sense for the GOP, anyway. Look, it's very.
I had meant to write about claims that Mel Gibson's anti-Semitism (which wasn't exactly a secret before his recent DUI at any rate) should affect the evaluation of his art (which, for me, couldn't get much lower in any case.) Fortunately, Roy ("though his public...
J-Pod: Interesting. Seems to me that in 1982, in Hama, Hafez al-Assad wiped out an uprising against his regime by slaughtering 25,000 over a weekend. And in 1991, Saddam Hussein.
... which makes it all the harder to acknowledge when he nails one on the head. Some choice quotes:I was just in the middle of writing a long and tedious.