Congratulations of a sort are in order for Kosovo. As I understand it, a number of Western countries will shortly recognize the independence declaration, to the chagrin of Serbia and Russia. Serbia has a variety of means through which to play the spoiler, but will almost...
So Grover "Drown the Government in a Bathtub" Norquist looks forward to the possibility of depicting Barack Obama as a "shady Chicago socialist" in the general election. An impressive and.
I would like to think that this is too obvious to need pointing out, but as Hilzoy and Cole note, the idea that there's some nefarious sexism lurking in Obama's.
Brad has a good post on the Freeman Dyson review of Michael Neufeld's new biography of Werner Von Braun. Essentially, Dyson makes the argument that the V-2 was a poor allocation of scarce defense resources:As the summer ended and our armies drove the Germans out of...
Megan McArdle cites a story finding that a fund permitting Virginians to send more money to the government voluntarily raises little revenue. What lesson does she derive from this?This is.
John Dickerson, while ruminating on the possible limits of Barack Obama's "hipness," asks a profoundly stupid question:More generally, shouldn't Democrats who have complained that George Bush was elected on the.
Like a moth to the flame, I followed Scott's Paglia link, finding this:A quite different film that I've recently enjoyed re-seeing and studying is "Revenge of the Sith" (2005) from George Lucas' "Star Wars" saga. The climactic light-saber duel between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi on...
Yet more evidence for the proposition that the answer to the question "Who's worse, MoDo or Paglia?" is "whoever you've read most recently." I won't even get into Paglia's fulsome.
When Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, and Bill Richardson were still in the race, were they each listed as having one pledged superdelegate? I've got to assume that each was planning.
From Vanessa at Feministing:In the midst of a trade discussion in 1973 with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Chinese leader Mao Zedong offered sending Chinese women to the United States as as a trade, saying: "We don't have much. What we have in excess is women....
Spencer Ackerman:Michael O’Hanlon is a Brookings Institution defense expert who doesn’t actually know anything about defense. He does, however, know how to be a reliable barometer of what very-slightly-left-of-center establishment.
Here's the synopsis: In Oxnard, California, a 14-year-old boy is being charged as an adult (and with a hate crime enhancement) for the shooting murder of a gay classmate [as.