Was Scott McClellan just about the lamest press secretary in recent memory? Ari Fleischer was great; wore Evil on his sleeve and didn't care who saw it. McClellan was pathetic.
Ah, that's more like it. As is generally the case when not writing about John McCain (which, alas, I may have to come back to for another round) or Iraq,.
Not to pile on the Euston Manifesto boys (although they heartily deserve it), but this needs some extra attention:The violation of basic human rights standards at Abu Ghraib, at Guantanamo,.
I had been meaning to get to Pamela Paul's defense of Caitlin Flanagan's upper-class anti-feminism--which essentially argues that people vociferously disagree with Flanagan's crude gender stereotypes and bourgie conformism because they secretly agree with it, but fortunately Ann Bartow, Amanda and Echidne are all on the...
USA Today has a handy-dandy chart showing what a post-Roe landscape would look like. As you can see, despite disingenuous claims that overturning Roe is no big deal, roughly 200.
Great.Nice to see Pedro get #200 last night. (Oddly, it's the second time I've seen a pitcher named "Martinez" win his 200th win live; I saw Dennis' in Florida in.
PSST...McCain is an unprincipled reactionaryIs there any more pathetic spectacle than the ongoing crush that some centrist liberals have on John McCain? Even liberals who one would think (Iraq excepted, of course) would know better, like Jon Chait, have fallen for his shtick. But given what's...
Ezra Klein notes Hastert and Frist trying to blame Democrats for the House GOP passing a breathtakingly reactionary immigration bill. Good luck with that.Serious question: How do we account for.
In the Vodkapundit thread cited by Belle, I believe we have (4/7 6:39 AM) the definitive example of the wankosphere's vast strategic acumen:With respect to what else....Every play Civilization?I think.
Yglesias:Ever since 9/11 he's been generating words as a fantastical rate the overwhelming plurality of which are based on pretty clear-cut misreadings of Thucydides such that a book about how a once-great country ruined its foreign policy and its own moral virtue in an unnecessary foreign...
Belle Waring:No, the thing that strikes me as funny is that everyone who supports was with Iran is all about the “mad mullahs” and how they can’t be deterred by.
Via Henry comes the good news that Jacob Levy is back to at least intermittent blogging, with a definitive take on the Mearsheimer/Walt controversy. Levy notes that "Mearsheimer and Walt.