Big Number of Blogs Matt gets it exactly right:This, I think we can assume, is the fall campaign. The idea is to psyche the Democrats out. To make them think they can't win an argument about foreign policy. To make them act like they can't win...
When in doubt, whine about appeasement.I wonder when the "lesson" of 1938 will lose its force. I would like to think that its days are numbered, especially given how often.
s.z., writing about Mark Steyn's upcoming book, notes this curious argument from the jacket: "The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are.
Huzzah to Yglesias for pointing out that settlement in an area once known as "The Great American Desert" is project likely to suffer from the occasional drought. If I recall my undergraduate history correctly, the period between 1870 and 1890 was one of milennially high rainfall...
I'm a little leery of the California compact to give its electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote, not because of principle but because of my distrust.
Chris Matthews:All signs point to a continued degradation of our situation in Iraq.Shorter (well, roughly the same length) Mickey: Nonsense. There's this letter here from a Marine who says that.
Speaking of Spike Lee, the parts of his Katrina doc I saw suggest a first-rate piece of work, and the whole thing will air Tuesday evening. As far is the blogospheric reaction, Shakes has everything you need.
Hackery just doesn't get much more hackish than Roger L. Simon. This is the kind of thing that happens when you don't actually care about movies, but just like using.
I'm watching the Athletics-Red Sox game, and I'm wondering when Javy Lopez picked up his reputation for being so bad defensively. I know that everybody has to love Jason Varitek,.
In the midst of explaining how it's more important to stay in Iraq than it was to stay in Vietnam, William Stuntz writes:But on any plausible scale of strategic value, Iraq today easily beats Vietnam in the late 1960s or Korea in the early 1950s. America...
What a depressing ending for Deadwood, not simply in the substance (which, in the last two episodes, was crushing) but also in the sheer incompleteness of the project. Knowing that.
In extremely tepid defense of Joe Biden, I don't think he was BOASTING that Delaware was once a slave state; rather, he was pointing out a basic fact about one.