So it seems that Rod Lurie is remaking Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. I have deep reservations about this. I love Sam Peckinpah. I will defend many of his movies (OK, not Convoy, but certainly Cross of Iron). The Wild Bunch is one of my favorite movies...
So as all of you have seen from his 100 comments on the matter, Joe from Lowell disagreed with my slamming of Obama for backing off of tightening clean air.
From Plumer and Sheppard.
Obama's decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president. While he campaigned on promoting clean energy and fighting climate change, he's had to scale much of that back in the...
Like most of New England outside of Massachusetts, Vermont has a very weak history of prominent politicians. I believe the state has contributed all of 1 person to a cabinet.
This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there's good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring.
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real issue in American history. John Svan was a Finnish immigrant to the United States. He came...
I don't have time to fully defend my claim in comments, so allow me to outsource to Jon Chait. Obviously, the fact that Perry is leading in the polls does.
Shorter Verbatim Victor Davis Hanson: "[Dick Cheney] had a lot of Democratic friends — remember how little acrimony he showed with Lieberman in the 2000 debate..." The whole thing is.
When both Rick Perry and Glenn Reynolds embrace an argument you know it's going to be uniquely stupid: RICK PERRY CALLS SOCIAL SECURITY A PONZI SCHEME. Well, I have heard Yale Law Professor John Langbein say that if a private entity did what Social Security has...
I think one thing that fuels the current dysfunctions of higher education in this country is the extent to which older people -- and especially university administrators and faculty --.
People who see third parties as a solution in the American system naturally tend to speak entirely in evasive gibberish, but I think Matt Miller's latest plea is a particularly.