I'd have to agree that "how dare you respond to our laws that give the police virtually unlimited discretion to detain people for the crime of not having a passport handy by not coming to our economically suffering police state" isn't much of an argument. As...
That's what economist Benjamin Powell is doing at the Freeman, where he notes that Western observers who refer to Somalia's "failed state" status generally overlook the importance of Xeer, the.
On Friday I appeared briefly on the Alyona Show to discuss Prompt Global Strike:
Lithwick has a good article about the case of Charles Dean Hood, who was given a death sentence despite the fact that his prosecutor and judge were literally in bed together. The Supreme Court has refused to hear his appeal, and while his death sentence has...
The first two Philip Roth books I read were Portnoy's Complaint and Sabbath's Theater. These make for a rather abrupt introduction, but Roth quickly became my favorite from the post-war.
It's kind of hard to tell, but I think that Reliapundit is arguing that an alien invasion will (massacres and general butchery aside) usher in a New Golden Age for.
I finally saw The Men Who Stare at Goats this weekend. A significant number of reviews from last year when it came out reference the epigram to the film, "More of this stuff is true than you think." However in my mind, the most important quote...
See Geoff Forden on the typical damage profile of a modern torpedo, and how that relates to Cheonan.
Grover floats an idea: Now assuming that the incident was the product of centralized decision making rather than an unintended one ordered lower down the food chain (something I discussed.
Not content, apparently, with commemorating people willing to kill hundreds of thousands in defense of slavery, Republican governors have now embraced gunpowder chic by asking their supporters to "Remember November." I agree with Josh Marshall that this is pretty shocking, especially coming from people who can...
This from a new report described in the Army Times: Troubling new data show there are an average of 950 suicide attempts each month by veterans who are receiving some.
Matt beat me to it, but while I agree with 90% of what she says I think that Dahlia's framing of the debate in this article concedes way too much.