Although I remain, as far as I can tell, the only progressive blogger to whom the TNR diary now creating a firestorm instinctively seemed a bit fishy in its details, I certainly agree with this. Any argument premised on the idea that no solider ever does...
Jamison Foser has a lot more on Marc Ambinder's remarkable, matter-of-fact admission that "healthy chunk of the national political press corps" is out to get John Edwards and will give.
In addition to buying weapons (in defiance of UN sanction) from North Korea, Ethiopia has also decided that starving rebel regions is appropriate behavior:The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food.
So Dean Barnett is speaking in tongues again:In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers. They didn't answer the phone.Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boomers--those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation--took the opposite path from their parents...
Fred Hiatt really is a marvel. His latest seems to contain every idiotic possible argument for defending Bush's perpetual war while pretending not to: willful blindness about Bush's actual position,.
Winger icon Michael Yon sees an upside to the Isalmist quasi-state we're killing hundreds of thousands of people and spending immense amounts of money to install in Iraq for no.
Apparently there's a book coming out today about a teenage wizard saving the world from Derek Jeter or something. People can discuss it here if they so choose.Meanwhile, like LB I think it's odd that Megan McArdle thinks that problems of internal logic are problems of...
Erik Loomis delivers some modest thoughts on the question.Glaciers are disappearing around the world at incredibly rapid rates. This can only be seen as an unadulterated good for humanity. That.
Franklin Foer stands behind his anonymous diarist:Whenever anybody levels serious accusations against a piece published in our magazine, we take those charges seriously. Indeed, we're in the process of investigating.
This is low hanging fruit, but it's important nevertheless:Bush Says Democrats Are Playing Politics on IraqPresident Bush assailed Democrats anew about Iraq today, accusing them of choosing to indulge in a political debate over troop withdrawals rather than giving the troops what they need to carry...
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
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