Shorter Verbatim Michael Ledeen: "Washington diplomats have steadfastly refused to see the Iranian regime for what it is: a relentless enemy that seeks to dominate or destroy us." Um, I'd have to say it's not doing much of a job. Although since their public officials are...
I'll have a couple of longer comments on the "foreign policy community" scrum later this week, but right now I wanted to highlight this from Drezner, on Greenwald:During the latest.
In 1505, a Portuguese naval expedition established control over the island of Zanzibar, long a trade destination in the Western Indian. Archaeological evidence indicates that the island has been used.
Cap'n Crunch is quite excited by Nouri al-Maliki's visit to Tikrit:The personal appeal, coming directly to the heart of Saddam's former power base, is a spectacular move by Maliki. Up to now, he's mostly been known as a sectarian forced to deal with Sunnis and Kurds...
The stitches come out tomorrow, at which point I'll chime in with my two cents on Helena Silverstein's book, Girls on the Stand, which Scott reviewed for The American Prospect.
The WaPo comes out for arch-reactionary Leslie Southwick. If I understand their criteria, the Senate has an obligation to confirm any nominee smarter and less overtly racist than Harrold Carswell,.
I'm not going to link to her, but in case anyone is wondering, Althouse devoted an entire post today to the question of whether the NY Times was deploying subliminal messages to evoke sympathy for Jose Padilla. Strangely, she didn't wonder why authorities didn't drape Padilla's...
Speaking of bad trades -- although in this case, of course, only ex post facto -- the Gagne trade in turning into a catastrophe of Slocumbesque proportions (on the receiving.
I have a review of Helena Silverstein's new study of judicial bypass provisions in parental involvement statutes up at TAP. My bottom line:The particularly salient lesson to draw from Silverstein's.
A great article by Erwin Chemerinsky about the latest appalling cutback on habeas corpus rights. The odious Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act gave a one-year time limit to file a habeas petition in federal court. The limit could be cut down even further to six...
Carlos Guillen coming to town and making Derek Jeter the third best shortstop in yesterday's game reminds me that The Left recently had a post about bad trades. Evidently, Bill.
My favorite part of the VDH rant that d. links below:First is fiscal sanity. For most Americans piling up debt is as much an emotional and spiritual crisis as it.