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 is to demonstrate that economic reporters are all lefties who can't report economic matters straight...
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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.
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 movie, but its very "smallness" is symptomatic of the diminished expectations and paltry substance that...
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.
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 speed us off the cliff faster than ever. You might think that our friendly war...
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.
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 reasons. It seems to me that a true Burkean--one who advocates caution, skepticism and moderation...
Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on.
If there is one thing I've gotten sick of in the last four years, it's having to pick my jaw up off the floor every so often, after it fall.