I think there's a lot of truth to what Matt says here. All I would add is that in the House, where the Democrats have the best shot, the structural advantages of incumbents are particularly formidable, and a slight downtick in the general climate could create...
Bob Owens scrawls his latest post in poo.
You knew that Hitchens would have to respond to the Lancet study, didn't you? I'll refrain from excerpting, and rather summarize:1. The Lancet Study is wrong for some reason. I.
So saith Assrocket:In fact, as we have often noted, if you listened to any of the speeches President Bush gave on Iraq in 2003 or read the Congressional authorization on the war, every rationale that has ever been discussed is there. And, as I have often...
After further reflection on the uses and mis-uses of statistics, I have concluded -- along with Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the Milton Friedman Appreciation Society and Supper Club, and Instahack -- that.
It's still claiming lives...As it turns out, there were two casualties at last weekend's national re-enactment of the Battle of Perryville: Two horses died.The animals died during the Oct. 7.
Via TAPPED, the Lexington Herald-Leader appears to be returning a grant designed to support investigation of Senator Mitch McConnell after McConnell's office called the paper and accused the center giving the grant of having a liberal bias. Fortunately, the four part story appears to be running...
Baltar is on the case.Going to be in Louisville, Saturday night.
Amanda Marcotte calls our attention to this excellent piece by Stacy Schiff, who debunks claims that Susan B. Anthony was a supporter of abortion bans. I find it particularly interesting.
Pithlord attempts to answer the unanswerable question of how people can believe that abortion is a serious criminal offense, but that the person most responsible for the act should be entirely exempt from legal sanctions. He claims that everyone, in some circumstances, believes these three premises:*X...
The presumption of male privilege is rarely declared so openly as when ignorant people begin yodeling about Title IX, which Congress passed in 1972 to counteract the self-evident gender disparities.
About this awful HufPost article, Feministing collectively says all that needs to be said, with an Abstract Nonsense chaser. But it makes one useful contribution--pushing Ann Althouse to a level.