While conceding that Christopher Hitchens's latest unintentionally risible strawman-burning is not one of his finest efforts (myself, I can't tell the difference), Michael Totten defends his central thesis, arguing that "[t]he American right is a better champion for secularism where it is most urgently needed. And for...
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I challenge you to try to make sense of the following out-of context quote: "Every Turks & Caicos Islander knows a Canadian" is a common saying in the Islands. Perhaps.
In my inexplicable effort to keep at least one conservative blog on my regular reading list (tacitus has been a bit of a disaster lately) I paid a rare visit.
You know how Van Halen started with David Lee Roth, and yet somehow replaced him with a succession of lead singers who were exponentially worse? That pretty much sums up our new Attorney General. You'd think after Ashcroft there would be no way to go...
I don't follow the ins and outs of DOJ behavior anywhere near as closely as Matthew Yglesias probably does, so for all I know there's merit to his highly qualified defense.
If this turns out to be a serious deal with a real impact, it's the best news I've heard in a quite some time. Furthermore, it would indicate a major.
Atrios is surprised that religious conservatives may not get Arlen Specter's head on a pointed stick after all. I think TAPPED's accounts are indeed persuasive. Does this mean that people like Michael Totten are right, that movement conservatives are just a paper tiger? I don't...
Absolutely magnificent Howler on the subject of whether the Democrats lose because their candidates routinely sneer at middle American values: Why did this reader vote for Bush? He says the Democratic.
I think Paul Krugman tried to warn us about this. Yikes. The dollar could slide still further, in spite of hitting an all-time low against the euro last week in the.
Several colleagues have expressed skepticism at my post-election claim that were Bush to appoint a Justice from within to fill the CJ vacancy that will almost certainly be left before the inauguration, it would obviously be Thomas. Well, has the Drudge Report ever been wrong before?...
Matt Yglesias asks a good question: My friends in the choice movement keep assuring me that the pro-choice position is overwhelmingly popular, and that it's overwhelmingly important that the Senate Democrats.
From Kos, we learn that the trend here in Washington of the Democrats picking up seats in the state houses is happening around the country. It's happy news, to be sure,.