Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: "A PREDICTION: If Barack Obama is elected President, he'll be far more warlike than President Bush, and far more warlike than his pre-election rhetoric suggests. Because before he's elected President, attacks on America are just attacks on America. But after he's elected...
Just got this breathless press release from the McCain campaign:BARACK OBAMA SAID IT!: "There's No Doubt That General Petraeus Does Not Want A Timetable"Barack ObamaMedia AvailabilityAmman, JordanJuly 22, 2008Barack Obama:.
I forgot to mention this, but commenter Howard and I once again have a $50 donation to Planned Parenthood riding on whether the Yankees make the playoffs. Harvey Araton's highly.
Nicholas Carr asks Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (I started reading this but got bored so I don't know the answer).I do know that Google is the single greatest invention of the human mind since that thing Peter Frampton used to make his guitar sound like...
Radovan Karadzic. Good deal. More from Hilzoy and Doug.
Well this is depressing. After moving into virtually every occupation, women are being afflicted on a large scale by the same troubles as men: downturns, layoffs, outsourcing, stagnant wages or.
Benjamin Harrison, proclaiming a day of celebration (scheduled for October 21) in recognition of the 400th anniversary of the "discovery of America," 21 July 1892:Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the...
My wife asked the other day why I seemed so interested recently in the self-evident absurdity of "Black Confederates." The short, pragmatic answer is that I'm teaching a course on.
As you have noticed below, because bean will be on a light posting schedule and this site certainly needs at least one lawyer, Paul Campos will be joining LGM for.
Adam Liptak has an interesting article about the exclusionary rule and how the American use of the rule differs from other countries. He begins with a comparison to Canada, which requires that evidence obtained in an illegal search be excluded only if admitting the evidence would...
Shorter Derb: All of your country are belong to us now. Verbatim Derb:We should tell Maliki, loudly and in public, that he owes his job to us, and that further.
Andrew McCarthy on how Maliki is an Iranian stooge and lousy ingrate:As I've mentioned before, Maliki, of the Shiite Dawa Party which opposed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq in.