Defenses of George W. Bush's incompetence and lawbreaking have frequently relied on specious arguments about the "continuity" between his administration and those of his predecessors. According to this formula, Bush's misconceptions about Iraqi WMD, for instance, are supposed to have been acceptable given similar assumptions by...
Long-time readers will know I agree entirely with this:So that’s the context in which to ask whether or not it makes sense to have a supermajority requirement for many Senate.
Yes, I know that comments are down. Yes, I have complained. Yes, I share the impression that the rollout of JS-Kit has been... bumpy.
This is a very interesting find:Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century, long after historians believed Rome had given up control of northern Germany. Some of the artifacts are so well preserved...
So when I wasn't paying attention, Foreign Policy went and seized the greater portion of the international affairs related blogosphere. Congrats to Dan, Marc, and the rest on successfully selling.
Eve Fairbanks and I diavlogged yesterday on, among other things, the critical issue of whether Barack Obama or George W. Bush more resembles Prince Hal of Henry IV parts 1.
There was a good piece in the Times yesterday about the ripple effects of the Ledbetter decision throughout the lower courts. With Sam Alito as their guide, judges have apparently concluded that the statute of limitations in any particular discrimination case expired anywhere from five to...
Shorter Michelle Malkin: "The work of a Little Green Footballs commenter who wrote lengthy posts asserting that polls showing a comfortable Obama win were clearly a product of systematic liberal.
This week's Herring installment will be delayed due to the fact that I apparently left my copy of From Colony to Superpower on the trunk of my car shortly before.
The Dark Lord speaketh:SCHIEFFER: Wouldn't it have been better, on reflection, to have a better and larger force [going into Iraq]?DICK: Well, um, we could debate that forever and we may well. I think that the original campaign was masterfully done in terms of the small,...
Becks asks:Can a movie present itself as historical, grossly distort the facts, and still be considered good art?Yes. Actually, I would take a position diametrically opposed to Becks's; basically, if.
I'm guessing that the percentage of Republican Senators who 1)will refuse to seat Al Franken and encourage Norm Coleman to pursue months of futile lawsuits and 2)who complained that Al.