We have a wiener! Tossing around accusations of intellectual dishonesty while defending Carhart II is a classic Biden moment. On the same topic, I have a discussion of the Supreme Court's latest intellectual atrocity in the context of Melody Rose's book about abortion access in the...
Everybody's making fun of the wistful hope that a military coup might come and wash the trash from the sidewalk expressed by Thomas Sowell. I'm amused because it particularly sticks.
Here's what I learned from winguts in a mere 15 minutes:(1) Terrorism is down almost everywhere!(2) Olmert is a pussy!(3) Holy crap, it's May Day!(4) War is good for babies!(5).
Like Kevin Drum, I'm going to skip the meta-issues in Jon Chait's article and instead highlight this important point about the 2000 election:The 2000 recount is an apt birthing ground for the netroots. It perfectly fits their view of U.S. politics as an atavistic clash of...
Everybody has something to say about the commission report that excoriated Ehud Olmert and his government for badly botching the war against Hezbollah last summer. Olmert and his advisors obviously.
Almost no one remembers this, but about an hour after George W. Bush's flight-suit strut across the deck of the Lincoln, Donald Rumsfeld appeared in Kabul with Hamid Karzai and.
Insty:JUST WATCHED BUSH'S SPEECH FROM THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN: I'm not crazy about it. The speech was actually good, stressing the changes in warfare that technology has brought ("the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent" was a good line, and so was...
Kevin Drum and I have the same question about this Pew Poll:Democrats and Republicans rate the Republican candidates almost identically, but they differ quite strongly in their ratings of the.
...the acceptance of an ad doesn't indicate endorsement of its content. If you want to give some cash to the Duke lacrosse boys, go ahead; off the top of my.
Will Saletan has many of the annoying tics of the blue-state male abortion "centrist" that dominates editorial discourse on the topic, such as viewing national elections as referenda on abortion, and originating policies that prominent pro-choicers have been advocating for decades. His latest entry into the...
Media Czech:A straight-A student in Illinois was arrested for writing a violent essay in a creative writing class. It was an assignment in which the teacher specifically instructed the students.
It must be said that Ben Wittes's inevitable defense of Carhart II is somewhat less objectionable than his typical writing on the subject, if only by virtue of its incoherence..