Make sure to read Kevin Baker's brilliant essay on the "stab in the back" myth. My favorite bit:The POW/MIA flags, with their black-and-white iconography of shame, now fly everywhere in the United States, just under the Stars and Stripes; federal law even mandates that on at...
I certainly don't have any, so I direct you first to this post by Hilzoy, which does the exceptionally useful job of laying about the underlying facts and dilemmas in.
I'll be on WVLK at 10:07am Eastern to discuss the Israel-Arab dispute. As readers of this blog know, this is a subject that I'm well-versed in and love to talk.
Friday Cat Blogging... Frodo and Pip
The Reverend William Lawson takes the conservative victimization ball and runs it well past the point of pure moral idiocy:Lawson likened Lay to James Byrd, a black man who was.
Variety reports... The Sopranos will not return until March. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first of several delays. Rome will return in January, but will only have.
Good Defense News article (subscription only) on the deployment of the DF-31 and the DF-31A. These are the first Chinese missiles capable of MIRVing (3-5 warheads each of up to 150 kilotons). The former have an 8000 mile range, which simply reinforces and expands existing Chinese...
Yes, I realize this is an unhealthy obsession.Mickey has responded:Numerous readers email to note Plano's very Republican voting record--Collins County, of which it's a part, went 71% for Bush in.
The Reds had a tendency to blow late inning leads. This was a problem. They have now solved this problem by ensuring that they will never again take a lead.
As a follow-up to my previous posts about Georgia's attempt to pass an unconstitutional voting law, the federal courts have blocked enforcement of Georgia's new attempt at vote suppression electoral reform. The argument seems to be that the new law is no longer a patently unconstitutional...
Mickey is railing again about Plano, Texas. Apparently, An Inconvenient Truth is doing well in Plano multiplexes, which has given Mickey conniptions. Plano, he would have his readers believe, is.
Once you boil off the contempt for women so surprising in an argument from the forced pregnancy lobby (besides, everyone knows that the most common reason for obtaining an abortion.