Last August I wrote:It's unclear whether the Indians will keep Viraat around for another three years or accept a carrier deployment gap. It's kind of interesting to me that, in spite of our newfound tight friendship with the Indians, I haven't heard a peep about selling...
Picking up on Rob's earlier post about our ever-growing prison population, it's worth noting that not only do we now have more than 1 in every 100 people incarcerated in.
And when did the Weekly Standard start hiring twelve year olds?
Awesome!Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.I'm proud to be a citizen...
Feral Mom admits to having conversed from time to time about books she hasn't actually read.[A]s I reflect on my literary sins, I have to admit that Pride and Prejudice.
Linda Greenhouse accepts a buyout from the Times. She did very good work. Anybody have guesses about her successor?
So apparently Dr. Seuss is supporting the anti-abortion movement. Or at least, they like to say he is (or did) -- despite the fact that Seuss made it clear during his life that he had no interest in allowing them to use his works. A group...
KTVA, the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, just ran a nearly unwatchable, nine-minute "human interest" segment on Ted "Tubemaster" Stevens (who might actually have to face a real Democratic opponent this.
William F. Buckley has shuffled off his mortal coil. For want of something useful to say, I'll just link to this account of a conversation on a NRO cruise between.
It's not just that the Air Force is requesting $112.5 million for PR; it could buy a little more than half of one of the F-22s it so deeply covets with that, but hey, that's cool. What bothers me is that the campaign seems so obviously...
Russert is a disgrace. (See also here, here, and here.) It seems to be that Obama handled the ridiculous questions about as well as could be expected.
Various bloggers have reacted negatively to Amy Sullivan's claim that her support of legal abortion can't be labeled "pro-choice" because she believes that abortion is morally problematic. Kevin Drum defends.