John Quiggin, riffing off this Edward Lengel column, suggests that the respective experiences of Europe and the United States in World War I may explain cultural differences on the use of force:In any case, in the long run, the absence of this most bloodily futile of...
An outraged California populace has reacted to the Outrageous Judicial Activism of their unaccountable unelected state court. As you remember, the court, with only the support of other unrepresentative and.
To join the latest meme, my first ever concert experience was Men At Work at a sold out Stampede Corral, touring behind their lukewarm hit Cargo. The original opening act:.
Loomis caught Sir Mix-a-Lot in 1988. He seems to think he's pretty cool for having done so. I, however, spent money to see Ratt at the Roanoke (Va.) Civic Center in mid-October 1985. At the time, their big hit was a song that inspired one of...
I don't know what's worse; Fernando "If 1999 ever comes back, he'll be one of the best third basemen in baseball!" Tatis hitting sixth, or the fact that he seems.
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.
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 should be counted in Florida 2000 and the position of many Democrats about current dispute over...
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.
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 by noting that Kennedy, humiliated by his Soviet adversary, responded by escalating the US commitment to...
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.