This discussion of Brookings Institute Fellow For Disastrous, Counterproductive Foreign Interventions and Bush Administration Apologism Michael O'Hanlon reminds me of my very favorite "liberal hawk" argument defending the surge, this comedy classic from Jeffrey Herf: If the Democratic party's national leadership continues in its opposition to...
I have to agree with Michael against Chris Clarke that I don't see any basis for the assertion that the post-1992 Republican strategy was to "find out what the disaffected.
Nicole Belle notes that a large number of Democratic Senators haven't co-sponsored the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act; this doesn't mean that they will oppose it, of course, but it would.
On August 15, 1769, nineteen year old Maria Letizia Bonaparte gave birth to her fourth child. The first two had died before the age of one year, but the third, Joseph, survived, and would eventually become King of both Naples and Spain. Maria's husband, Carlo Bonaparte,...
Saw the Police in Louisville last night. They were remarkably impressive. No Youtube highlights available from last night's show, but the difference between the Police and some other "reunion" bands.
Sometimes I am appalled at the roadblocks that courts set up in the way of justice. Ironic, isn't it?The NY Times has the story today of Troy A. Davis, a.
Publius has some sympathy for John McCain's profound yet futile humiliation and self-abnegation. I do feel it with respect to his daughter; politics requires you to make alliances with ugly people and forget ugly tactics. But where any sympathy I had for McCain vanishes with his...
Above: Bill Kistol prepares to write today's WaPo editorial, which forever propels the achievement of "dead-end, self-refuting hackery" beyond the reach of mere mortals. Behold:Let's step back from the unnecessary.
I almost forgot it was Bastille Day. There's still time to, like, destroy a prison or something. Just don't cut anyone's head off and parade it around on a pike,.
If one were looking for an especially repulsive mixture of homophobia and anti-Arab racism, it would be difficult to find a purer example than this thread at LGF, where rumors about Yassir Arafat's cause of death -- a rumor passed along by the most dubious of...
HTML points us to this post by digamma. HTML says he "has" me, which is kind of strange because I basically agree with this:No one on the left ever dreamed.
Reports on the credibility and journalistic standards of dead-ender hero Michael Yon...are not promising. Which I supposes goes without saying. (I think the definitive warblogger moment was Judy Miller being.