Like Matt, I think that Jacob Weisberg is 100% right on this one. I think it's worth noting as well that what seems to be the most common position among states--legal state-sponsored lotteries and machines (and perhaps horse racing), but other forms of gambling illegal--is the...
Are there any good sports autobiographies? The genre is not one noted for distinction; most of the books are written by ghost writers who often have only a mercenary appreciation.
Late last year one of my students gave an outstanding presentation in defense of US agricultural subsidies, an accomplishment I had not thought possible. Daniel Davies makes the same argument.
After launching widespread airstrikes in order avoid negotiating with Hezbollah for the return of its soldiers, it now looks as if Israel will... negotiate with Hezbollah for the return of its soldiers, possibly promising to stop harassment of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and negotiate out the...
As with the dead-on-its-feet Giuliani candidacy, I would like to think this is obvious, but apparently not. In comments, the otherwise astute Redbeard gives the Naive Nader Apologist Account of.
Billmon on strategic planning:But, of course, I'm getting the impression from reading between the lines of the official propaganda that the IDF is struggling just to produce these little symbolic.
A transcript of my remarks from yesterday is here.The front page of the Herald-Leader reads "UK Professor Rob Farley thinks that the Chinese would be the best choice for leadership of a peacekeeping mission. Find out why online". I suppose I ought to defend that palpably...
Via B.A.B. (who, alas, is not going to see an end to "women's bodies being the playing field for election-year politicking" anytime soon), I see that George Bush has offered.
Via le professeur le plus dangereux en Amerique, the Little Professor (who did great work during the whole Ivan Tribble thing) offers a handy guide to the writing a Chronicle.
I'm glad that someone was motivated to point out the obvious fact that Rudy Giuliani has absolutely no chance whatsoever of winning the Republican primary. The fact that anyone in the media takes this seriously is right up there with the "and Hillary will jump in...
Today, the Senate will vote on legislation to federally enforce excreable parental notification laws. (HT: Prof. B.) This would offer a worthy companion to its ludicrously arbitrary partial-birth abortion law.Why,.
It's obviously good news that the Voting Rights Act will be renewed. But it's also worth remembering that civil rights legislation is only as good as the willingness of the.