Matt Yglesias writes: The South in the late nineteenth century was a region that heartily deserved to be subjected to some hostile sentiments. Nothing pissed me off more than my high school history textbook's many disparaging references to these insidious "radical Republicans" in the late-1860s and 1870s...
Well, the inevitable is now official. Since I'll be going to Shea to see their last game ever on Sunday, I'll post more about it then. I do wish to note.
Majikthise tries to work on her social skills. . . ME: How's the wedding planning going? COWORKER: Pretty good. But everyone has an opinion. Like, we're trying to go with.
This is the last goddamn thing we need: George Lucas wants to bring a live-action “Star Wars” series to television by autumn 2006. The good guys at the Inland Empire Strikes Back Web site have been chatting up some insiders up at Lucasfilm, and they’re all talking...
Bad things are happening in Congress. For more read Belle Waring, Ted Barlow, and Katharine at Obsidian Wings, Kevin at Lean left, Jeanne at Body and Soul. If you don't know what "extraordinary rendition" means,.
Christopher Layne's work is to be viewed with great skepticism, but about this he is surely correct: The strategy of preponderance aims at attaining a condition that approximates absolute security.
Kevin Drum drops a rock on Christopher Hitchens' head. After all, Hitchens has chosen to ally himself with the most unserious group of war leaders this country has ever seen. They treated the runup to war like a marketing blitz for a new soft drink; they have...
Jesse Taylor asks a very important question: All dark humor aside...does it strike anyone else that North Korea's "nuclear deterrent" (read: weapons) are a very, very, very bad thing for.
According to Glenn Reynolds, citing an article in the NY Post, the 60 Minutes scandal has had the salutary effect of destroying Dan Rather's ratings. "No wonder Big Media folks aren't.
I simply can't urge you strongly enough to read the article in the most recent Vanity Fair about Florida 2000--it's just magnificent, clearly putting inside baseball from the court's clerks in the larger political context. Courtesy of the superb SCOTUS blog, you can (and must) read it here....
Amazing how the red-blue lingo has found its way into our political discourse. Seems reflective of a horse-race mentality, one that excludes most states from any consideration whatsoever, and concentrates.
Although I can't say that I completely agree with his argument, David Neiwart's series on fascism in America is a must read. If you haven't taken a look, please do..