In the midst of the below-referenced posts pointing out the highly disingenuous attempts to claim that Clinton was not, in fact, a strong contemporaneous supporter of the war, Yglesias notes this about Obama:Also note: "But all of this cannot come to pass until we bring an...
I do wish people would stop describing support of the invasion of Iraq as tantamount to support of "pre-emptive" war as a doctrine. Pre-emptive and preventive are clearly distinct from.
Oh. Right. Althouse behaving like a jackass again.First, I'd like to offer my condolences to Scott, who most certainly did not deserve to be mistaken as the author of this.
So, let's say you're working with a Word document at home and at the office, and you open the document up from email to work on it. You foolishly just keep saving it to the temp file. Then you download a version you save from another...
A reminder....Good one.
Any garden variety Republican operative can run with the farcical non-scandal ginned up from someone requesting on behalf of the Speaker of the House of Representatives the legal privileges claimed.
When you're as preoccupied with historical anniversaries as I am, you occasionally notice some interesting collisions.Take today, for instance. John Walker Lindh -- the so-called “American Taliban” -- turned 27 today in Oklahoma City, where he is serving a 20-year sentence for carrying weapons for the...
Henry.No cats were harmed in the making of this film.
(Via Manan Ahmed)The Society for Ethnomusicology has declared itself against the use of music to torture detainees:The SEM is committed to the ethical uses of music to further human understanding.
Sara Anderson brings our attention to another innovation in the irrational abortion regulation obstacle course, this one from the Idaho legislature:A North Idaho lawmaker wants to make it a crime to attempt to coerce a woman or girl into having an abortion, according to S-R reporter...
Um, can I choose "neither"? Admittedly, the Atlantic article has a clever setup--given that with their puerile misogyny, proud idiocy, and not-quite-porn Maxim/FHM lad type lad magazines are pretty much.
Well, at least now she can be with that ghost with whom she used to canoodle.I'm closing my eyes and trying to imagine what Althouse has to say about this..