Bird Dog at Tacitus approvingly quotes the following from Richard Russell: American aircraft and cruise missiles also could target Iran’s key political, security, and military infrastructures to harm the power of the regime in Tehran. Strikes could target government buildings and even the homes of clerics; facilities...
November is over, and another 133 Americans are dead in Iraq. This number will probably increase in the next three or four days because of delays in Defense Department reporting..
One of the questions I've been asked in the last month more than once revolves around whether or not all Christians are right-wing jackasses, and if not, why don't we.
I'm in more or less complete agreement with Matthew Yglesias on the Ukraine issue. The interests and ideological convictions of the United States dovetail nicely in Eastern Europe. It is good to favor a transparent, reliable electoral process in the Ukraine both because democracy is good and...
Regular reader Kat points out that someone has finally stood up to the greatest menace afflicting the University of Washington community; those goddamn Larouchies. Photos here, discussion here. It is possible that.
A poll about the Supreme Court yields typical findings: The survey found that 59 percent of respondents said they favor choosing a nominee who would uphold Roe v. Wade, while 31 percent.
This is obviously of trivial importance compared with the feeble attempts to debunk the Lancet article, but I'm glad to see David Leonhardt tackle a form of reactionary innumeracy that becomes an annoyance on Sundays: the argument that running is the key to success in the...
I can't decide if Ampersand at Alas, A Blog is a saint for the time and patience he devotes to refuting bad anti-SSM arguments put forth in various quarters of the.
I mentioned recently the unlikely but true fact that Van Halen could replace David Lee Roth and wind up with replacements that got exponentially worse. Well, should the NYT follow.
I know we defeated Dems are supposed to be getting in touch with what blue-state urbanites like Nik Kristof consider to be "red state" culture. But if this consists of a movie adapted from a treacly ode to conformity by John Grisham, written by Chris Colombus, starring...
From David Edelstein's review of Alexander: Please understand the source of my vitriol: I consider Stone's Natural Born Killers to be, hands down, the worst movie ever made—and not the worst.
I've been falling into the bad habit of not bringing reading material to the gym, which leads to dangerous things--namely, prolonged exposure to Lou Dobbs tonight on CNN. This toxic.