Yeah, I'd have to say that, when doing an empirical analysis of the KKK, "Perhaps the most limiting feature of our data is that we were unable to obtain any records on Klan members or activities in the Deep South" is one hell of a caveat...
Lindsay has the news about NYC subway stations being wired for cell phone use. However, there is one minor error:If everything goes according to plan, all 277 underground stations will.
No, really -- Bob Kerrey actually said that about the utter fraud otherwise known as Rudy Giuliani. Hmmm. Something about that quotation seems incomplete. OK, so:“Giuliani did what the president.
Via Jeffrey Lewis at ArmsControlWonk, Chris Nelson is reporting that the Israeli airstrike on Syria targeted Scud missiles and missile parts. As Jeffrey notes, this makes a lot more sense than the nuclear accusation, and explains the involvement of North Korea.
Turns out that the U.S. Senate has nothing better to do than to spend time passing a resolution to condemn free speech. Yep, you read that right: the Senate today.
This may surprise some folks, but I'd like to congratulate Victor Davis Hanson for stumbling upon the perfectly uncontroversial notion that Osama is bug-fuck crazy:The truth is that bin Laden.
From a (generally unfavorable) David Garrow review of Jeffrey Toobin's new Brethrenesque book about the Supreme Court:Toobin devotes two chapters to Bush vs. Gore, the case that decided the 2000 presidential election. He asserts, based on unidentified sources, that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was overly eager...
Garance reminds me of Belle Waring on Fred Thompson: "First of all, are women voters, taken as a whole, really so much like retarded kittens in our motivations? And secondly,.
Erik points out that John Hillcoat of The Proposition is set to direct Cormac McCarthy's The Road, with Viggo Mortensen starring as the father character. Like Erik, I have mixed.
Apparently Pitchfork is an almost entirely all-male preserve -- indeed, there are more reviews by guys named "Mark" than by women. [Via Ann and Amanda , the latter of whom explains why women leave the otherwise promising field of Insufferable Music snobbery.]
If you think eating meat is presumptively bad, skip this post.Yum. Beef. It's what's for dinner -- for tonight at least. For me, and for Frank Bruni too. Last month,.
Matt said recently that he "feels like Clinton is drawing close to checkmating her opponents." Dana reminds us that it's still early; Ezra avers that "it's hard to make up.