George H.W. Bush, speaking at a fundraiser for John McCain, 28 May 1992:I am quietly confident about the election this fall. In sum, I am absolutely convinced as this economy moves back, as we sort out where everybody stands on these highly complex issues, when the...
Jon Chait makes the first obvious point about Rich Lowry's silly attempt to claim that there's some contradiction between Democratic arguments that ballots that indicated the intent of the voter.
The Supreme Court yesterday, in 6-3 and 7-2 decisions, interpreted anti-discrimination statutes to include retaliation against employees as "discrimination" even when this was not explicit in the statutory text. The.
Nepal began to take shape in the second half of the 18th century, as Prithvi Narayan Shah, ninth of the Kings of Gorkha, conquered about a third of the various small kingdoms and principalities that occupied the territory of the modern state. Over the next half...
Scott Johnson's book report about the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit offers yet another recitation of the completely uncontroversial point that the 1961 Vienna meetings did not go well for Kennedy. Johnson concludes.
America's least beloved circus clown continues to bring the high level of intelletcual rigor he brought to his defenses of Joe Lieberman against actual Democrats to the Clinton campaign. As.
One of the surest signs of spring in NY is not the return of chirping birds or the blossoming of the cherry trees, but the reappearance of women's legs on city sidewalks. And with the short skirts and sundresses come the catcalls.I got my first one...
This is kind of interesting. Like Harry, I certainly wouldn't have chosen Hugh Laurie as having one of the four worst American accents by a British actor on TV. It's.
Jeebus. Those Alterdestinarians get weird e-mail.A number of years ago, I started working on a project about Christian prophecy writers and the war on terror. I shelved it for a.
...and a bit more at the new Russian Navy Blog. It's not an official Russian Navy blog, but rather is run by an enthusiast who pays a lot of attention to Russian naval developments and translates Russian naval materials. My favorite feature thus far is "Soviet...
Kathy makes a definitive case. The risk of giving up a red state Senate seat has to create a strong presumption against it, and it just isn't the job for.
All I can say about Bob Novak frothing about Kathleen Sebelius's allegedly excessive opposition to arbitrarily enforced laws forcing women to carry pregnancies to term is that I hope it.