Anne Applebaum:One 2004 poll found that more than half of the French, nearly half of the Germans, and a third of the British think the United States has overreacted to the terrorist threat.Or, to put it differently: Neither the events of Sept. 11 nor any of...
Coming hard upon the heels of Mickey Kaus' unsuccessful effort to figure out a way in which the Democrats were responsible for the Foley incident (keep working, Mickey; I'm sure.
LGM Baseball Challenge 2006 is over, and it appears that, in spite of a strong effort, Dave Noon lacked the will, resolve, and moral certitude necessary to defeat the Kentucky.
Lord Saletan triumphantly (re)discovers that pro-lifers may not be entirely consistent when it comes to protecting fetal life, and that there may be a "new" strategy that points out this contradiction. No kidding! Perhaps if he paid more attention to the reproductive rights movement rather than...
Brad DeLong's son asks:First, neither wing of the original Federalist Party was "strict constructionist." The Hamilton-Adams wing was aggressively eager to expand the power of the federal government from the.
Via FFB.
Amanda reports on This Film Is Not Yet Rated (which I haven't yet seen):A couple of the directors, notably Kevin Smith and John Waters, draw a direct parallel between the censorship of gleeful female horniness and the way that misogynistic content just gets a pass, even...
Could the Tigers win one goddamned game against the Royals? Yeesh. The first round is just going to be a massacre.
September 30.
As things are now just about done, it's appropriate to review the Reds 2006. At the beginning of the year I predicted that the Reds would win about 72 games, good for fifth place in the NL Central. As it turns out, they went 80-82, secured...
Starting tomorrow, I will begin blogging at TAPPED. Some content will be cross-posted at LGM, and much will be found only at LGM (curiously, Sam didn't include Battleship Blogging in.
USS Mississipi, second ship of the New Mexico class, carried 12 14" guns, displaced 32000 tons, and could make 21 knots. Mississipi was one of twelve "standard type" battleships, designed.