Four days ago I wrote this: In approaching these reforms, it’s undoubtedly best to take a fresh look, especially given that the Triad was as much a result of service in-fighting as a rational strategic choice. Such a review is particularly necessary given that it has become apparent,...
For your Wednesday night, how about one of the saddest songs ever, about the orphan trains, which is a real black mark on our national past, even if the alternatives.
Sure am glad the relevant agencies declared West Virginia water safe now after the Freedom Industries chemical spill: “What we are seeing when we talk to our partners in hospital.
James Wolcott had a good suggestion for the Republican Party after various candidates who couldn't keep their misogyny quiet kept the Senate in Democratic hands: Memo to Republicans: Try running fewer rape philosophers next time.— James Wolcott (@JamesWolcott) November 7, 2012 Apparently, that's the good advice...
via... This is what happens when you have you have a tiger by the tail, but you made the tiger. And you made it out of poop-flinging piranhas. How do.
My copy of this book arrived in the mail yesterday, and this enthusiastic review from Adrian Vermeule in TNR suggests I made a wise choice: Schwartzberg studies collective decision-making in the.
Have you been waiting for another "nonpartisan" movement urging everyone to come together and concede that conservatives are right about everything? Who hasn't! Which brings us to No Labels, who have an exciting new book blurbed by noted opponent of partisan polarization Newt Gingrich. What's the...
I think of this mainly as an effort to improve the quality of arguments in favor of the independent USAF. To my mind, such a case must grant that the.
The World's Worst Delberative Body, everyone: The Senate’s effort to restore long-term unemployment insurance benefits for 1.3 million Americans sputtered Tuesday amid bitter procedural disagreements. Negotiators from both sides of.
I’ve been looking forward to IFC’s “The Spoils of Babylon” ever since I saw previews for it and had no idea what the hell I was looking at. Now that I know that it’s a mini mini-series spoofing the epic mini-series of the 70’s and 80’s,...
On the night of January 15, 1915, the IWW writer and propagandist Ralph Chaplin wrote the song "Solidarity Forever." The song is emblematic of Wobbly culture. If there's one thing.
It should very much go without saying that the chants of Yale frat boys do not constitute sound principles of jurisprudence: Last week, a Swedish judge ruled that a man.