Shorter Verbatim Rick Santorum: "You probably remember well when Bill Clinton and the Democrats passed the largest single tax increase in our nation's history in 1993, $293 billion. That sent our nation into an economic slump."Yes, thankfully the Republicans were able to put an end to...
Glenn Reynolds. (I'm also shocked that such a steadfast, principled supporter of gay rights would think that an individual's inappropriate behavior with pages is somehow the responsibility of gay people.
Shorter Sebastian Mallaby(and, of course, Glenn Reynolds:) The fact that the Democrats took a strong, unyielding stand against privatizing Social Security, and refuse to accept my specious and intellectually dishonest.
The common nerd enjoys yarns about alien invasions and zombie uprisings. The truly dedicated nerd, however, likes to pore over the details of the public policy response to such events. I have far more tolerance for Independence Day than anyone sensible person ought, largely because I...
As we know, elementary chaos theory predicts that robots MUST rise and overthrow their masters. In such a world, teaching robots that humans taste like bacon, the most delicious of.
Tigers vs. Profoundest Manifestation of Evil on Face of Earth. Let's pretend I was a good contrarian writing for Slate. Unlike a Slate contrarian, I could actually marshall some evidence..
Anne Applebaum:One 2004 poll found that more than half of the French, nearly half of the Germans, and a third of the British think the United States has overreacted to the terrorist threat.Or, to put it differently: Neither the events of Sept. 11 nor any of...
Coming hard upon the heels of Mickey Kaus' unsuccessful effort to figure out a way in which the Democrats were responsible for the Foley incident (keep working, Mickey; I'm sure.
LGM Baseball Challenge 2006 is over, and it appears that, in spite of a strong effort, Dave Noon lacked the will, resolve, and moral certitude necessary to defeat the Kentucky.
Lord Saletan triumphantly (re)discovers that pro-lifers may not be entirely consistent when it comes to protecting fetal life, and that there may be a "new" strategy that points out this contradiction. No kidding! Perhaps if he paid more attention to the reproductive rights movement rather than...
Brad DeLong's son asks:First, neither wing of the original Federalist Party was "strict constructionist." The Hamilton-Adams wing was aggressively eager to expand the power of the federal government from the.
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