In the midst of another dissection of Michelle Malkin's book, In Defense of the Indefensible, David Neiwert coins a useful term for the most common form of conservative argument: Malkin, in fact, manipulates history in a way that makes clear that her entire methodology is little more...
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My colleague can hardly be blamed for missing the real pinnacle of Bobo's recent column--the thing was really a cornucopia of insipidity. But try to imagine that anybody would write.
John Lott, that's who! (In case you're not a pathological blog-reader, here's a backgrounder on Mr. Lott). Pay careful attention to how the article is constructed. The goal of the piece.
Kevin Drum, commenting on an excellent post from Juan Cole, sums up the situation in Iraq as it relates to the struggle against AQ and global terrorism as well as any summary I've seen. if we stay in Iraq and fight a long, grinding, unwinnable guerrilla war...
Showing a complete lack of originality, I'm following up my Nader post with another classic topic around here: the scribblings of that leading sociologist, David Brooks. His column today indicates.
An even better take on Linklater from Armond White in the New York Press: Everything wrong with today's movie culture can be found in Before Sunset. Not to exaggerate this pipsqueak.
The upcoming primary here in Washington has a few tough choices to consider. On the Governors race, I'm pretty much set on Sims. I don't think he'll win, and Gregoire may well be the best chance of beating the rather formidable Dino Rossi we've got (and...
Good news from Florida, which, scarily, may again be the deciding factor in the upcoming election. I confess that when I hear that Nader has suffered a setback or failed.
Matthew Yglesias makes a crucial point that isn't made often enough: In other words, a second Bush term will not merely continue down the current unsustainable course -- it will.
For me, one of the most difficult political questions is the ethics of outing for political purposes. It presents a conflict between two important principles: 1)the the profound injustice of systematic discrimination against gay people and the immorality of public officials who are support it,...
I'm sure our regular readers (if any) were looking forward to receiving the kind of in-depth, Geertzian interpretive analysis that only a long-time New York resident of two weeks could.
I must argue that my colleague, as well as the increasingly shrill Andrew Sullivan, have reached the right conclusion about the proposed constitutional amendments in the GOP platform for the wrong.