From a chat at the Washington Post, responding to the Fred Hiatt's bizarre decision to hire Slate's scientifically and mathematically illiterate advice columnist to share some inane thoughts about climate science and how Al Gore is very, very scarrrrrryyyyyyy [/Count Floyd]: Silver Spring, Md.: I think...
Make sure to pass condolences on to Lindsay.
It is definitely true, of course, that talking about how the war is awful while you continue to give the Bush administration everything it wants is much, much worse than.
One can rarely peruse a right wing blog these days without reading about how "we're winning" in Anbar. The talking point stems from the decision, in September of last year, of a number of tribal elites in Anbar to focus on operations against Al Qaeda, instead...
Yesterday's post sparked quite the kerfuffle in comments. Here's a follow up: National Advocates for Pregnant Women staff attorney Tiloma Jayasinghe has an article up at RH Reality Check describing.
Sometimes I think the term "common sense" is an oxymoron. Or a paradox, at the very least. Because the things that make the most sense are often in opposition to.
Victor Davis Hanson is seriously bumming (via TBogg): Watching those film clips and pictures of the Taliban kidnapping Afghans who were de-mining the countryside, and Iranian thuggish police in black hoods hanging a sort of slop bucket around the necks of free-speech dissidents, and the various...
Today's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case actually turns on relatively narrow grounds. The problem with Roberts' opinion is that it turns on a claim that punishing the student was justified.
The Court's 5-4 decision today in Hein v. FFRF makes it much more difficult to challenge programs -- in this case, the Bush administration's decision, thorough executive order, to funnel.
Losing 2 out of 3 to the Giants makes one wonder how badly things would have gone for the World's Greatest Manifestation of Evil if they were playing a team with a major league offense. Yesterday is making me think for the first time that the...
Proving once again how astute Nader was to argue that control of the executive branch is irrelevant, a dismal looking day at the Supreme Court with the moderate Sam Alito.
There was something appropriate about Griffey's first home run yesterday bouncing off Willie Bloomquist's glove. Both Griffey and the the Seattle fans demonstrated a lot of class this weekend.Hearty congratulations.