Here's what I love about the wingnut-o-sphere:Step 1: Read on Instapundit that "the surge is working." Step 2: Learn (via Rubble Boy's link)that former Bush/Cheney webmaster claims in a Townhall column that "It hasn't been reported on widely, but murders in Baghdad are down 70%." Step...
Tim Noah:But the terms of eviction from Wikipedia raise a larger issue than the bruised ego of one scribbler (or Jungian analyst or anime artist or Finnish security consultant). Why.
Holy Joe Lieberman turns 65 years old today. Four years ago, I attended a wedding on the east coast where I happened to meet an old staffer of Lieberman's who.
I am proud of my non-home and native land today, as the Canadian Supreme Court unanimously rejected a government policy that permitted the indefinite detention of foreign born suspects based on secret evidence. Chief Justice McLachlan:The procedures required to conform to the principles of fundamental justice...
Another U.S. Attorney is fired. According to the WaPo story Jeralyn points us to:Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty told senators earlier this month that all but one of the.
The Conservapedia (via everybody and their cat) is indeed pure gold, and many people have picked out their favorite bits. (I'm particularly partial to "[Nineteen-Eighty-Four] is a utopian book because.
Finally the New York Times adds a strong (self-described) feminist voice to its op-ed pages:Similarly, Giuliani respects the distinctive work of judges and the separate role of the state legislatures. If Roe were overruled, those legislatures would decide how to regulate abortion. And decentralized legislation really...
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Senate's 1831 ratification of a treaty between the US and the Choctaw nation, which had agreed the previous fall to give up 11 million.
Russell Arben Fox has a thoughtful post, expressing his ambivalences about abortion, which you should read. Obviously, much of my disagreement is on well-trodden ground: I don't think that a woman's reproductive freedom can be legitimately abridged to further a vague sense that traditional (and generally...
Hmm, Can West has taken over the New Republic--but, alas, Marty Peretz is keeping his stake. Apparently they'll be moving to a bi-weekly, twice-the-length format (if this means more space.
Obviously, I agree entirely with the substance of Paul Campos's reply to Glenn Reynolds's attempts to defend illegal and counterproductive assassinations. Since it came up in comments too, I should.