Looks as if the Syrian military has decided to launch some Scud missiles at rebel positions: Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have fired Scud missiles at rebel fighters in recent days, Obama administration officials said on Wednesday. The move represents a significant escalation in the...
John Tierney's article on mass incarceration and the (War on Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs is very good: Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had quite different.
I suspect both Chait and Suderman are overestimating the political impact of raising the Medicare eligibility age. But if we're talking about direction rather than intensity, I think Suderman has.
Back in 2004, in the wake of Lawrence v. Texas, a recently out of the closet gay NYU law student asked Antonin Scalia a tough question at a semi-private forum where Scalia was discussing the decision. Naturally in the hierarchically-obsessed world of legal academia this display...
After 20 years of lavishly funded Pain Caucus campaigns, the only people who care about the deficit and favor slashing entitlements are...the same slice of the elite who cared about.
This is a fascinating interview with Henry Horenstein, photographer of country music. I have a Johnny Cash picture, but it’s no good. Same thing with Merle Haggard. But at the.
Just when you think you can enjoy America's gun culture in all of its abstract glory, some asshole decides to go and shoot up the mall where you spent a substantial portion of your teen years: The Town Center remains on lock-down status while SWAT teams...
...not Wrecking Ball. So what is it? My curiosity isn't merely idle either -- I'm headed home in a week and need some company on incredibly long drives across a.
According to Rolling Stone, Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball is the best album released this year. Why? Because of lyrics like: Gambling man rolls the dice, working man pays the bill..
I noticed this expansion of the old vastleft strawman while reading deBoer's argument about how all liberals are secret torture apologists: Here's my problem: for months prior to Election Day, many Democrats and liberals insisted that the position of the presidency was so vastly important that...
I know there's very little reason to have much hope for the mainstream media, but when villagers begin calling out Republicans to their faces on policy, it makes me a.
On December 11, 1886, the Colored Farmers' Alliance was established in Lovelady in Houston County, Texas. This organization may have accomplished little in concrete gains, but it represented the brave.