Indeed, it's now remarkable easy to construct a course such that the benefits (other than the degree) are pretty much non-exclusive. In my Defense Statecraft course, for example, anyone could participate on the blog and follow along with the syllabus. Were I not as lazy and...
Today, I am sorry to report, concludes another year of Bill Frist's unwholesome existence. Happily for all, though, Frist's 55th birthday marks the first time since 1995 that he's not.
In comments to this post, I'm afraid that regular commenter Anderson has fallen for the old conservertarian bait-and-switch:Yeah, quite frankly, I think punitives are a terrible idea in general --.
Good news from the Great Faces, Great Places state:An abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest and health of the mother was rejected Wednesday morning by legislative committee in Pierre.The Senate State Affairs Committee just voted 8 to 1 to kill HB1293 without a vote of...
In addition to being bad on the merits, what puzzles me about Tom Vilsack's decision to end his campaign yesterday is what makes him think it would work. I'll admit.
Rob's post on luck and wingnuttery reminded me of a Times editorial written four years ago by historian Jackson Lears on the subject of George W. Bush and his Providential.
At some point within the manly space that is the wingnutosphere, it became fashionable to talk about things like war with Iraq or the Surge in terms of long odds. The odds may be against us, the argument conventionally goes, but it (whatever "it" may be)...
Erik makes an important point regarding the political backlash against the Dixie Chicks in his good commentary on J. Lester Feder's fine article on the right wing shift of country.
Shorter Michael Medved: The sheer terror of potentially working with somebody who might find you sexually attractive totally justifies hating fags. And might I add, no fat chicks? This whole.
Glenn Reynolds uses some somewhat prose-like stylings ("beclowned"?) to defend his crackpot assassination scheme. Alas, he doen't explicitly defend his farcical claim that the U.S and Iran have been at war since 1979, although his analogies and tu quoques implicitly depend on such an assumption. I...
(This is going to be somewhat of a Loomisian gesture, but as part of my weird obsession with the worst that history has to offer, I'm going to start an.
The more important holding issuing from the federal court system today, of course, was the 2-1 ruling by the D.C. circuit rejecting the habeas petitions of prisoners being held without.