Lacking anything better to blog about. . . I have recently found myself in the mood to purchase DVDs. This mood strikes a few times a year, and usually leaves me in an impoverished state. I have tried to manage my problem by limiting myself to...
A couple of interesting stories about Russian nuclear missiles have been making the rounds. As far as I can tell, the Russians are developing three new systems. One of these is.
Jon Henke mounts a defense of the indefensible tax proposals being mounted by the Bush administration. After briefly defending the President's transfer of the tax burden from capital to labor.
Loyal (and disloyal) Readers, The color switch has now been installed, thanks to the assistance of Seb from Sadly, No! and the indominatable Andrew Martin. Let us know if it works, or if it causes problems. Also, make sure to read this post from Paperwight on tax...
Well, I suppose it's close enough that we should wait for the recount. This post isn't legally binding, so I'll just go ahead. Both Scott and I have issued strict.
Life with no government? "Somalia is a pure free market," one diplomat told me. Driving 50km (30 miles) from one of the airstrips near the capital, Mogadishu, to the city, you.
Yet remarkably funny, from Roger Ailes: [Brooks:] It's totally different. I always swore that I would never agree to be a columnist because it's like slavery. You've got to come up with an idea every three or four days. So I finish my column on a Monday...
Most of you have probably begun to put electoral anxiety in the rear view mirror, embracing all kinds of other forms of anxiety instead. Here in Washington, it won't end..
At some point last year, Christopher Hitchens took an insurmountable lead in the "idiocy in the name of contrarianism" contest he was having with Gregg Easterbrook. I missed this when.
While I generally (if tentatively) agree with Ezra and the Moose that overturning Roe would be bad for the Republican Party at the national level (although, for reasons I've previously discussed, I think more states would ban abortion than is commonly assumed), I respectfully disagree with some of the...
Bill, we hardly knew ya. . . William Safire, whose political commentary column has appeared on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times for more than 30 years, is.
(warning: long boring post. read at your own risk) It's time we came up with a nice catchy name for the tireless army of people who'll fight tooth and nail.