It seems that the hand-picked successor of Washington Times editor Wes Pruden is a bit too much of a racist crackpot--for the family of Rev. Moon. The whole article is a must-read, but a tasty excerpt about the editor of a major conservative newspaper:In 1993 Pruden...
A crucially important film artist, Sven Nykvist was not only the cinematographer for most of Bergman's greatest films. He also shot Woody Allen's greatest film, worked with other major directors.
Defense News:An independent assessment of IEDs in Iraq, obtained by Defense News and based on British military intelligence, said, "Based on current usage, there are enough stocks of illegal explosives.
Yglesias calls out Saxby Chambliss for what seems like the 912th nostalgic reference to the Confederacy this year alone. Loomis has some appropriately caustic commentary on the subject. On the subject of Southern heritage, see also Sean Wilentz' fine review of Nicholas Lemann's Redemption, a history...
I give Brendan Nyhan fair-n'-balanced credit for this; he prints Tomasky's justification for pushing him out of the Prospect, which he doesn't directly rebut because he can't: "there were a.
I agree with Erik that the King's decision to back the coup has essentially ended the political crisis. Thaksin doesn't have a snowball's chance of finding his way back into.
Make sure to read PTJ's analysis of the Pope's speech in Germany. The real target, according to PTJ, were Western secularists and non-Catholics. A selection:Hence the irony: Benedict wasn't attacking Islam; he was ignoring it, and in particular ignoring its claim to be a rival monotheistic...
As noted previously in this space, there has been a very successful campaign to distort the firestorm over Larry Summers, the gist of which is that even suggesting that there.
Another loss for the Poor Voter Disenfranchisement Act. The most instructive information is this:Perdue and other proponents of the law said it is needed to curtail fraud. They cited an.
I'm with Mr. Trend; however you feel about A-Rod, this from Jason Giambi is absurd and uncalled for. The garbage about "getting the big hit" is just that; undoubtedly Jason remembers his own big hits much more clearly than the runs that A-Rod drives in. The...
In the proud tradition of so many of his Southern predecessors in the august halls of the United States Senate who proudly used parliamentary procedure to stand up for gross.
I have no particularly deep commentary on the Gerber and Malhotra study discussed by Kieran and here by Kevin Drum. Bitterly fought battles over the relative value of different political.