It's things like this that make it hard for me to be sympathetic to Chavez apologists:Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hailed the man dubbed "Europe's last dictator" Monday as he started an international tour by visiting the authoritarian leader of the isolated former Soviet nation of Belarus."Here,...
Unsurprisingly, there are some psychological obstacles to a "tit-for-tat" strategy:In a study conducted by William Swann and colleagues at the University of Texas, pairs of volunteers played the roles of.
Matthew asks:But none of this changes the fact that it is Hezbullah that retains an armed "state within a state" in defiance of UN resolutions and the Taif Accords, that.
Yglesias, Fontana Labs, and Farrell have already dealt with this reprehensible Alan Dershowitz column, which goes entirely off the moral rails with its claim that "[t]he Israeli army has given well-publicized notice to civilians to leave those areas of southern Lebanon that have been turned into...
Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVPart VPart VITCG Yavuz resumed her duty as the flagship of the Turkish Navy in 1930. Much had changed since she was last operational, however. The.
Unwittingly:WALLACE: But isn’t that the result of what’s happened in Iraq?KRISTOL: No, it’s a result of our deducing from the situation in Iraq that we can’t stand up to Iran..
Icky.Prisoners are executed by hanging—a process known to produce "gruesome scenes of slow strangulation and even decapitation." And prisoners sitting on death row don't even know when they'll actually die. No one gives them a date. Prisoners aren't told "this day will be your last" until...
Three observations on the Douhat's preference of Shyamalan over Nolan, Raimi, and Singer:1. It's not reasonable to dismiss films about comic book characters. Spiderman and Batman have as rich a.
I was happy to see that Criterion has finally issues a good DVD transfer of Edward Yang's magnificent Yi Yi. If you haven't seen it, get it in your Netflix.
Friday Cat Blogging... Stromboli
I think we all knew where Muir was going to go.Alternative Shorter Chris Muir: Anyone who believes that Loving v. Virginia was correctly decided is a nihilist, because not believing.
I'm not sure how this article got through, but apparently the New Republic has fallen into the grip of unhinged Kantian nihilistic blogofascism:But, while all these interpretations may be true.