is undemocratic and evil, unless it suits your agenda. Both houses of Congress tweak their rules on the first day of a new session. The rule changes for the 112th Congress, while not revolutionary, are more sweeping than usual. In the Senate, the Senator Tom Udall...
In pointing out that it's hard to square Antonin Scalia's assertions that the 14th Amendment provides no protection for gender equality with the rest of his jurisprudence, I didn't even.
My latest at WPR is about airpower, "savage war," and inter-service conflict: Nevertheless, assessments of the utility of airpower in counterinsurgency efforts have always been bound up in debates over.
Apologies for my recent light blogging, as I was home for the holidays. To cap it off, today the fine folks at Delta in their eternal wisdom saw fit to move my first flight up six hours. My layover in Minneapolis was so long that the...
In what can only be described as a dubious victory for Medicare, Dick Cheney's pulseless, mechanically-assisted heart -- which I wrote about in greater detail last year -- has evidently.
First off, let me recommend some reading on a couple of defense issues. Galrahn has an excellent post (really, the latest of a long, long series of excellent posts) on.
RIP. A week late, but she's apparently not known enough here to make this newsworthy--still nothing from the New York Times. My entry point into classical Japanese cinema (non-Kurusawa) was Ozu. Unfortunately (and taking nothing away from Setsuko Hara), Takamine appeared in Ozu's more forgettable films...
The first fifteen minutes of Fight Club strongly suggest to its audience that they're about to watch a much better film than the one they're actually watching—the critique of material.
Always worth keeping in mind: [A]ctual small government conservatism -- as opposed to opposition to unspecified waste or a misunderstanding of the size of the foreign aid budget -- is.
A superficial analysis of the House Republicans' pledge to vote to repeal health care reform is that it's nothing more than a symbolic gesture. While many might downplay their modest intellectual prowess, they must possess a rudimentary understanding of the basic institutional structure outlined in the very...
Never let it be said that our comments section is not the site of unprecedented events! David Nieporent has actually attempted to cite erroneous claims in Ted Kennedy's famous Bork.
If I had to choose my "most underrated middlebrow filmmaker," it would definitely be Jim Sheridan, whose work I've admired for a long time (up to and including 2009's fine.