Shorter Dr. Helen: Men are "screwed" by laws preventing domestic violence because they don't have the political power to influence the laws. And a random anecdote about David Letterman provides convincing evidence that many restraining orders are granted just to give women leverage in custody disputes!
Via Yglesias, I watched this ad, which apparently aired during the Redskins game yesterday (I wouldn't know). There's much that's good about this ad; encouraging parents to talk to their.
It's hard to figure out how to react to this Michael O'Hanlon column on health care. The first thought that struck me was "What the hell is Michael O'Hanlon doing.
One major reason I always strongly opposed the Iraq war is that my graduate training entailed some study of the difficulties of state-building. Building stable states, let alone liberal democracies, is very difficult, and usually involves alliances with other powerful actors to help raise revenues and...
Please never try to write satire in another voice ever again. I've been thinking for a while at picking some of the Pulitzer-winning columns from 1999 at random and seeing.
By now we all know about Bush's politically stupid and unconscionable veto of Congress's bill expanding S-CHIP, the health care program that would cover kids whose families are not poor.
Good god:More than 300 people were picked up by ambulances along the course, many of them suffering from nausea, heart palpitations and dizziness from the stifling heat, fire officials said. Forty-nine were hospitalized for their illnesses, race officials said, and the rest were treated at race-sponsored...
Of the innumerable jaw-dropping feats of illogic performed by American "pro-lifers," I've always been amused by the fact that to the forced pregnancy lobby women are simultaneously routinely getting abortions.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: It's unconscionable that the government would provide health assistance to families making the austounding sum of $45,000 a year. They'll probably just use it to buy more.
I heard from more than one Yankee fan who was happy that they avoided the Angels. Somehow, past history or no past history, I'm guessing they don't believe that anymore. Anyway, we're now at most three games away from the regrettable return of Tim McCarver. (The...
Hat tip to Leo. I can't seem to find any Islamofascist Unicorns.
Henry Farrell notes a contradiction in Brooks's embarrassingly belated realization that George W. Bush is not, in fact, a Burke/Oakeshott conservative. My favorite example from the Brooks archives, however, has.