Matt provides some useful quotes taking on Paul Berman's attempt to claim that he was contemporaneously against the Iraq War. Perhaps even more instructive is this one from another post in the Slate symposium. After conceding that mistakes were made by the leaders of the war,...
The Ohio state legislature is considering a law mandating that sex offenders use green license plates on their cars: "It won't prevent every crime," said Democratic state Rep. Mike DeBose,.
Christian at Defense Tech has a nice rundown on the "grounded Eagles" problem; if you hadn't heard, the USAF grounded its entire fleet of F-15s after a plane broke up.
Matt says he's reading this book defending Eisenhower's record on race. I haven't read it, so maybe it makes the case. But I would be skeptical on several fronts that the book would need to be overcome:I think there is, in fact, good reason to believe...
Billionaires for Bush mounts a search for the mythical family farmer affected by the estate tax. If you can find one -- and a pony -- you'll get a free.
Alaska court throws out law requiring parental consent -- not notification, which is useless enough, but consent -- to obtain an abortion. [Via Ann.]
Since when did wingnuts begin ripping-off Belle Waring's famous pony-asking thing? Here. Have a look-see:It's difficult to tell what Newsbusters wants from CBS. Impartiality? The same attack on Clinton that they'll make on Giuliani? I want a pony . . .What's certain is that Newsbusters wants...
A couple of days ago, Paul Mirengoff announced that he was going to be doing some "good, old-fashioned hard reporting" from New Hampshire. Whenever conservative bloggers start yodeling about the.
In 1841, a previously unsuccessful British adventurer named James Brooke arrived in Brunei. Having served in the army twenty years before, Brooke had decided to purchase a schooner with his.
The Great War ended 89 years ago today; I continue to prefer concrete remembrance of that war to the abstraction that is Veterans Day. Depending on how you count, there are currently between 22 and 31 surviving veterans of the First World War, up to nine...
By this guy's logic, I should not have paid federal taxes for the last 7 years, since I don't support just about anything the federal government has done since 2001.
The Warm Personality of Bill Belichick, The Mad Skillz of Norv TurnerIn light of the failure of even scheduling two service academies to put a mild veneer of respectability on.