Sometimes I am appalled at the roadblocks that courts set up in the way of justice. Ironic, isn't it?The NY Times has the story today of Troy A. Davis, a 38-year-old man who has been on Georgia's death row for 17 years. Mr. Davis was convicted...
Publius has some sympathy for John McCain's profound yet futile humiliation and self-abnegation. I do feel it with respect to his daughter; politics requires you to make alliances with ugly.
Above: Bill Kistol prepares to write today's WaPo editorial, which forever propels the achievement of "dead-end, self-refuting hackery" beyond the reach of mere mortals. Behold:Let's step back from the unnecessary.
I almost forgot it was Bastille Day. There's still time to, like, destroy a prison or something. Just don't cut anyone's head off and parade it around on a pike, OK?Meantime, this crappy Rush song almost makes me wish the French Revolution had never occurred.
If one were looking for an especially repulsive mixture of homophobia and anti-Arab racism, it would be difficult to find a purer example than this thread at LGF, where rumors.
HTML points us to this post by digamma. HTML says he "has" me, which is kind of strange because I basically agree with this:No one on the left ever dreamed.
Reports on the credibility and journalistic standards of dead-ender hero Michael Yon...are not promising. Which I supposes goes without saying. (I think the definitive warblogger moment was Judy Miller being invited at the keynote speaker at the Pajamas Media launch party. They don't want good reporters;...
Washington Post:The White House has refused to give Congress documents about the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding saying that certain papers.
A difference of opinion is developing between American and European approaches to poppy eradication in Afghanistan. Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker:In Uruzgan, the Dutch have advocated a policy.
If not for the icy hand of death, Nathan Bedford Forrest -- Confederate general and inaugural Grand Wizard of the KKK -- would have turned 186 years old today. A Tennessean by birth, Forrest was a slave trader and Mississippi plantation owner during the years leading...
This is utterly unsurprising. As Scott once said, there's no need to sign the Euston Manifesto if you're not worried about being a Stalinist; given this, it's natural to find.
This is the sixth of a nine part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.1. China's Trapped Transition, Minxin Pei2. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs3. Illicit, Moises Naim4..