Today is the 65th anniversary of Joseph Goebbels' notorious Sportpalast speech, in which he called for "total war" against the Bolshevik peril, which had just turned back the German armies in the battle for Stalingrad. An excerpt:Bolshevism has always proclaimed its goal openly: to bring revolution...
Apparently, pledged delegates totals are illegitimate, because some states have open primaries. Consequently, it is the responsibility of the superdelegates to overturn the preferred pledged delegate candidate if another candidate.
I wish I was making this up, but:The inference is that by winning the small red states with caucuses, but not the big blue states like California and New York,.
A little Sunday morning Clemens-related levity.
When I picked up the New York Times last weekend, I thumbed through the sections, skimming the headlines and plotting out my reading plan. That is, until I came upon.
Congratulations of a sort are in order for Kosovo. As I understand it, a number of Western countries will shortly recognize the independence declaration, to the chagrin of Serbia and.
So Grover "Drown the Government in a Bathtub" Norquist looks forward to the possibility of depicting Barack Obama as a "shady Chicago socialist" in the general election. An impressive and original strategy, but really -- why stop there? I suggest trying to cast Obama as a...
I would like to think that this is too obvious to need pointing out, but as Hilzoy and Cole note, the idea that there's some nefarious sexism lurking in Obama's.
Brad has a good post on the Freeman Dyson review of Michael Neufeld's new biography of Werner Von Braun. Essentially, Dyson makes the argument that the V-2 was a poor.
Megan McArdle cites a story finding that a fund permitting Virginians to send more money to the government voluntarily raises little revenue. What lesson does she derive from this?This is what economists call "revealed preference". What most of us are really in favor of is higher...
John Dickerson, while ruminating on the possible limits of Barack Obama's "hipness," asks a profoundly stupid question:More generally, shouldn't Democrats who have complained that George Bush was elected on the.
Like a moth to the flame, I followed Scott's Paglia link, finding this:A quite different film that I've recently enjoyed re-seeing and studying is "Revenge of the Sith" (2005) from.