Via the Washington Post: Agency officials have criticized the four former Capitol Hill staffers Goss brought with him for their inexperience. Goss' first choice for executive director — the agency's third-ranking official — withdrew his name after The Washington Post reported he had left the agency...
I'm not sure if Kenneth Baer is one of the people, specifically, that Atrios is talking about, but his article certainly exemplifies the central issue Atrios and Josh Marshall have identified. Now,.
Ever wonder what it's like to run for the Senate as a Democrat in Oklahoma? According to Brad Carson, there's a downside. For one thing, you get invited to Churches to.
Southern reactionaries have suddenly decided they're not so keen on the Madisonian institutional rules that have historically served their interests so well. Can't they make up their minds about what constitutional order they want? According to Dr. Bill "Kitty Kevorkian" Frist, speaking at the Federalist Society: Dr....
Uggabugga suggests a new seal for the DOJ.
While conceding that Christopher Hitchens's latest unintentionally risible strawman-burning is not one of his finest efforts (myself, I can't tell the difference), Michael Totten defends his central thesis, arguing that "[t]he American.
As Laura Rozen and Mark Goldberg point out, it looks as if the foreign policy hawks are starting to turn their attention back to China. This shouldn't be surprising, for a whole number of different reasons. Remember that the Bush administration didn't pay all that much attention to...
Read this exceptional post by Daniel Davies at Crooked Timber. Davies shows how most of the critiques of the Lancet study on Iraqi casualties can be systematically demolished, and that the.
I challenge you to try to make sense of the following out-of context quote: "Every Turks & Caicos Islander knows a Canadian" is a common saying in the Islands. Perhaps.
In my inexplicable effort to keep at least one conservative blog on my regular reading list (tacitus has been a bit of a disaster lately) I paid a rare visit to Oxblog. In addition to the giddy, substance free endorsement of the heartwarming (the steal a phrase from the...
In the comment section, Redbeard asks: Since the insurgents will always melt away and hide when we invade a town, might we be better off NOT pulverizing cities and trying to.
I share Matt Yglesias' distaste for "Veterans Day." Taking November 11 out of its historical context serves no real good purpose; as John Quiggan points out, the many of the worst crimes.