Bush, in response to the 9/11 commission report yesterday: "Had we had any inkling whatsoever that terrorists were about to attack our country, we would have moved heaven and earth to protect America," he said. "I'm confident President Clinton would have done the same thing....
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Liberty magazine reports the story of how Baradnik won the LP nomination. Amusing stuff. One of the richest lines: Badnarik is a self-taught constitutional scholar Ah, that explains it. Unfortunately, he.
Ted Barlow gathers up the good news and presents it to us. My personal ban on optimism is still intact, but for those of you who like to think nice thoughts.
The best poll yet at the Rittenhouse Review: Who is worse, the more offensive, odious, or objectionable, and limit your thought process not to the inexplicably popular, "Mad About You?" Helen Hunt Paul Reiser I have to go with Reiser, who seems even worse outside...
The interesting things about dissertation defenses is, no matter how they turn out you'll want to get drunk afterward...
I foolishly wasted time last week following a trail of links to a rather ridiculous right-wing website. There was a long, gleeful post about the outing of Joe Wilson as a liar, coward, and.
The grocery store I frequent most often has an ad for the egregious "Fox and Friends" on the mechanical cart. Apparently because it's not quite disingenuous enough, they abjure the "fair and balanced" slogan (although there is a "we report, you decide" in the bottom corner.)...
David Adesnik makes an observation about NYT campaign coverage. I think we can safely call it an understatement: The negative thrust of campaign journalism has begun to engulf the Democratic candidates..
Responding to libertarian blogger Abiola Lapite, Brad DeLong muses on global warming.... I think that, for most global-warming fearers, it is naivete that makes them advocate an immediate program to attempt.
You read the blogs enough and you can get the sense that a good portion of libertarians are thoughtful and sensible (if myopic). This may well be true, but it's really not close to the whole story. When the Libertarian Party nominated this guy, a few...
Jesse Taylor addresses what is is sure to be an issue that'll be coming up from now through Nov. 2--how the evil trial lawyers are driving up the cost of health.
Roger Ailes recently pointed out an embarrassingly stupid op-ed piece by Wan Julliams, in which he complained about how the vacuous lip service with no changes in policy whatsoever offered.