I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I didn't know Rhode Island's full name, so while I would support efforts by states to make their names longer and goofier, I guess don't especially care if the Ocean State decides to change it based on flimsy historical interpretations of...
Attempts to use Ricci to derail Sotomayor's nomination won't work, but (as Paul also said earlier today) they do show how silly the whole "empathy" criticism is.
Finally. And, while perhaps this overstates his rationality, now that Coleman has conceded it's hard to imagine Pawlenty making the courts issue a writ to force him to act.
Ackerman:It's a "carnival" in Baghdad, according to the Post's Ernesto Londono, filled with Iraqi troops grinning as they take their lives into their own hands and graffitti writers further south demanding, "Pull your troops from our Basra, we are its sons and want its sovereignty." Don't...
That was the question a young man who stopped by my office a few months ago had for me. He had read something I'd written, and was so impressed by.
The new hit album.
I'll have more tomorrow, but like Publius I was amazed to come home and read Alito's remarkable-and-not-in-a-good-way concurrence focusing on the Scary Black Guy who allegedly caused New Haven to jettison its testing process for promotions. As Adam also points out, Ginsburg was devastating in noting...
Erik Loomis happened to be in Honduras the other day, just as Kermit Roosevelt happened to be in Iran during the summer of 1953.
It appears that the Israelis have ditched plans to purchase the Littoral Combat Ship: In a radical revamp of its surface fleet modernization program, the Israel Navy has shelved long-held.
We now have *shudder* a Twitter feed. Adjust your behavior accordingly. We expect that the feed will include not only self-serving links to LGM posts, but also unique examples of the quality socio-political commentary you've come to expect from LGM, distilled down to 140 characters.
I've had Vo Nguyen Giap on my death list for four years running. This year in History of Strategic Thought, we read People's War People's Army; while the first half.
I will be in a car returning from a graduation party most of the day. So if, as expected, the Court hands down its decision in Ricci today and reverses.