Rob says most of what needs to be said about Jonah Goldberg's inevitably failed attempt to turn the Iraq catastrophe into a policy problem for...liberals. I'd like to address this: "If you can justify causing genocide in order to end a nation-building exercise that -- unlike...
So I've been sitting on a post about Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan's vision for a Catholic town, Ave Maria, which he is developing in Florida (smartly located to effect.
Jonah:There's been so much talk about how conservative foreign policy's moral credibility has been demolished under President Bush. Maybe. But what of liberal credibility? In the 1990s, amid all of.
Ever alert to the nuances of culture, Powerline has learned from Myron Magnet -- one of the great voices in the blame the hippies school of sociology -- that hip-hop is a dangerous force that preys upon the lives of the underclass. (That's Myron and his...
Patrick Lyon at the Lede has a post on several surviving deposed monarchs, including Michael I of Romania, Simeon II of Bulgaria, Constantine II of Greece, and Kigeli V of.
Early in the nineteenth century, the Durrani Empire, which had governed Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan since 1747, began to collapse. The Durrani Empire came about through an effort by.
Jules Crittenden excuses corpse desecration by applying "the legal principle of who cares?" With, of course, an approving link from Glenn Reynolds.Evidently, this will have a million uses. "The Constitution gives the President virtually unlimited and plenary power to declare and conduct wars." "Actually, several Constitutional...
Thanks to Lauren. Click through if you dare, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Over at TAP, Garance has an article up that asks -- and tries to answer -- the question of why Edwards' candidacy seems to have fallen a bit flat. Not.
There's a good article in the NYT today about Japan's increasingly aggressive defense posture. In addition to slight increases in defense spending, the deployment of assets farther away from Japan, and the purchase of new weapon systems, the Japanese Self-Defense Force is carrying out more aggressive...
I know, what can you expect from Roger Scruton, but it's pretty embarrassing for someone to assert that "Environmental movements on the Left seldom pause to consider the question of.
Since Atrios has responded to Matt's suggestion that Harry Potter books be a gateway drug with some actual positive discussion of books (I concur with his praise of the beautiful.