HTML points us to this post by digamma. HTML says he "has" me, which is kind of strange because I basically agree with this:No one on the left ever dreamed that Clinton would create a major progressive domestic policy shift. The most they ever hoped for...
Reports on the credibility and journalistic standards of dead-ender hero Michael Yon...are not promising. Which I supposes goes without saying. (I think the definitive warblogger moment was Judy Miller being.
Washington Post:The White House has refused to give Congress documents about the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding saying that certain papers.
A difference of opinion is developing between American and European approaches to poppy eradication in Afghanistan. Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker:In Uruzgan, the Dutch have advocated a policy of nonconfrontation and the pursuit of development projects. (The Dutch commander, Hans van Griensven, was quoted...
If not for the icy hand of death, Nathan Bedford Forrest -- Confederate general and inaugural Grand Wizard of the KKK -- would have turned 186 years old today. A.
This is utterly unsurprising. As Scott once said, there's no need to sign the Euston Manifesto if you're not worried about being a Stalinist; given this, it's natural to find.
This is the sixth of a nine part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.1. China's Trapped Transition, Minxin Pei2. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs3. Illicit, Moises Naim4. In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce5. The Utility of Force, Rupert Smith6. The Box, Marc...
There's news today that use of Plan B (emergency contraception or the "morning-after pill") is way way up. According to a Washington Post article today, sales of Plan B have.
Kevin Drum, writing about the Most Dishonest Editorial Ever, argues that "a junior high school geometry student would be embarrassed to produce work like this." Apparently he hasn't gotten the.
The Financial Times is reporting that Chinese-made weapons are being supplied, through Iran, to insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. A senior US official recently told the FT that Iran appeared to be providing the Chinese-made weapons. He said Washington had no evidence that Beijing was complicit,...
Lord Conrad facing 35 years. I've never had much sympathy for someone who is so desperate to be part of an anachronistic manifestation of illegitimate hierarchy he would renounce his.
Lorie Byrd has some ideas about how The Decider The Repeater can rally the nation to his beleaguered cause:The time to capture the attention of the American people is not.