Q: How does a man with a B.A. in Economics and no apparent scientific expertise go about demonstrating the lack of reliability of a well-established scientific consensus? The Poor Man has the answer! Hint: The idea for this technique came to him when he noticed how...
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Scott's got an excellent suggestion for a serious blogging topic for me below, so what do I do? In a moment of temporary insanity and inexplicable self-abuse, I follow a.
UPDATE: Somewhat reassuringly, apparently I didn't notice the problem below because this isn't, in fact, a feature of the constitution; a simple majority is all that is required for most things..
A commenter in the post immediately below reminds us of a great Wodehouse line; perhaps the harshest condemnation the mild-mannered Bertie ever directs at an interlocutor to his face. If you haven't read anything by the man with the greatest ear for comic dialog the...
I hope you have all seen this unintentionally hilarious re-enactment of The Quiet American. (Jeebus, any good colonialist would know that you don't just come out an tell your supposed inferiors that.
I see in the Seattle Times today that the courts have failed to throw out Rossi's legal challenge to the gubernatorial election, thus giving him the green light to continue the.
I'm sure regular readers of this blog are grateful for the reprieve from interminable abortion posts. However, Publius' reply to my defense of Roe v. Wade (1, 2, 3) raises many excellent points, and I hope it can be used to clarify the discussion. First of all, let me say...
Wow. What ciricle of hell are we occupying when there's a radio show where John Derbyshire is the moderate on gay rights?
The beginning of JFK was just on, and the narrator noted that Kennedy "found himself embroiled in Laos and Vietnam." Really, this rhetorical device is crucial if you're going to claim that.
Can Friedman possibly get sillier? (Please don't answer that.) ...Belle Waring offers a suggestion consonant with Friedman's general level of intellectual seriousness.
Yglesias identifies the most obvious problem with the most recent manifestation of Gregg Easterbrook's mind-blowing idiocy (I think Bush as a proponent of making the tax code less regressive is even.
Our favorite Stalinist film critic and writer of the book David Horowitz has already written several times has an informative website. You know you're in for some good stuff when.