Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan both think that Muqtada Al-Sadr's retreat and expressions of approval for the new government are a victory for the administration. That is certainly a point of view. A more accurate point of view would note that it was the US, not Sadr, who...
Cruising the blogosphere, checking out the reaction to the 9/11 report. . . Tacitus has a measured response. He acknowledges that Dick Cheney is a damned liar, but notes that.
Should Bush look at the polls and dump Cheney, Gen. J.C. Christian proposes the logical replacement.
I'm surprised this quote from Bishop Deal W. Hudson that Josh Marshall IDed hasn't gotten more play. But it's an unusually candid admission about the nature of the jihad against pro-choice Catholic Democrats: "Once you open this door, what's going to come rolling through it?" asked Deal W....
Yesterday, the Supreme Court held, 8-1, that defendants can make a sexual harassment claim against an employer when the environment was so hostile that the defendant was compelled to resign. The one.
David Neiwert points us to the cover story of Pat Buchanan's The American Conservative: a love-in between the man himself and self-appointed spokesman for pure progressive bodily fluids Ralph Nader. My first reaction is.
In a rare case of me being with the winning team, the winner of THE VICIOUS INSTAPUNDIT BLOGROLL CONTEST at MaxSpeak has been announced, and the winner is: InstaPundit. Let us first ponder the utter depravity of the winning comment, made by a tenured law professor: Civilized societies...
Warning: The following is long, rambling, inconclusive and pointless. Read at your own risk. Most of you have probably figured out that Rob is the Guns and Scott is the.
This quote from Tacitus is precious, even if I am appalled by it: Tacitus can't admit he was wrong even in the face of facts! Which is to say, because I recognize.
Juan Cole points out what should be obvious to everyone; that Iran is seeking, and is likely to acquire, a great deal of influence in the new Iraq. Some people like to blather on about how the invasion of Iraq and the War on Terror are all...
About the merits of Elk Grove v. Nedow, I would say briefly that 1)the standing analysis that allowed the Court to duck the issue isn't very convincing, but was probably politically.
Matt Yglesias, Kevin Drum, and Jesse Taylor have talked this to death. . . Here in Seattle, we have two major newspapers. The P-I is a middle of the road moderate newspaper,.