Via Phil Carter and Eli Lake, Paul Wolfowitz on the mistakes of the occupation:"One was enough troops for the major combat. A lot of people said we didn't have it, and obviously we did. There was a very difficult balance that had to be struck between...
Ugh. I guess MoDo's Pulizter is the better analogy...
The more things change, the more they stay the same.The New York Times reported today on two new reports (one from the Sentencing Project and one from Human Rights Watch).
Herbert Hoover, in a message addressed to the National Conference of Parents and Teachers, 5 May 1929:The state is all of us. Some of us have no home, some have known no school, some are outside the church. The state alone embraces us all. It is...
In light of the passing of Mildred Loving, it's useful to return to standard set out by Antonin Scalia to apply the equal protection clause in cases that don't involve.
Mildred Loving, who (along with her husband) successfully challenged Virginia's anti-miscegenation law in 1967, has died. Loving's case was a landmark for civil rights, but she never intended to be.
Ronaldo picked up tranvestite hookers? Mr. Trend seems to think there are more important stories to talk about in Brazil. I'm unconvinced.
Back in 2005 I sat on a panel at the University of Kentucky library on the future of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At one point the conversation became.
So a group of Swiss biologists and philosophers produce a report suggesting that humans perhaps shouldn't arbitrarily destroy plants. While the report was commissioned by the Swiss government, and though.
Hilzoy:Clinton is presently making a big deal about the fact that she is "a fighter". After this primary season, I don't think there can be any doubt about her willingness to fight. What Clinton's gas tax proposal tells me is what she's willing to fight for....
MoDo:Hillary and her posse pressed hard on their noble twin themes of emasculation and elitism.Yes. Hillary's theme.
Further proof that Henry Wade (of Roe v. Wade -- and other fame and/or infamy) was a total asshole.