This is the third of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List. 1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson 2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey SachsThe End of Poverty made a big splash when published last year, as Sachs argued in provocative...
When big business meets the evangelical community, who do you think wins?While much of America put Prohibition to rest 73 years ago, large parts of the South have remained strictly.
So that means it's fair, right? A quick cut, assuming that things fall together like the Times suggests...Given the situation on the ground right now, the deal seems to be.
In fairness to Thomas Joscelyn, he doesn't actually suggest that the US should attack Pakistan. Rather, he asks cowardly rhetorical questions like "Pakistani terror networks were behind the 7/7 bombings and the London airline plot. What will we do about it?" Also it should be noted...
Joe Lieberman's favorite op-ed page, approvingly quoted by principled, non-partisan libertarian Glenn Reynolds: Let's emphasize that again: The plot was foiled because a large number of people were under surveillance.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
"I regard it as a salutary doctrine that cities, states and the Federal Government must exercise their powers so as not to discriminate between their inhabitants except upon some reasonable differentiation fairly related to the object of regulation. This equality is not merely abstract justice. The...
You listen. Two crucial points: first, that randomly invading countries in the vain hope that a pro-American liberal democracy will emerge from the ashes is an exceptionally ineffective strategy for.
At Slate's Fraywatch, Adam Christian summarizes a number of devastating critiques of Weisberg's "The Hippies Are Out to Get Us" piece from yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the critiques are cogent, well thought-out,.
Needless to say, incoherent demagoguery is not just limited to blogospheric hacks:Senator Joseph I. Lieberman seized on the terror arrests in Britain today to attack his Democratic rival, Ned Lamont, saying that Mr. Lamont’s goals for ending the war in Iraq would constitute a “victory” for...
David Weigel gets it exactly right with respect to Bobo's fantasies about a centrist third party built around two politicians who don't have anything resembling centrist views on the most.
Patterico uses the thwarted terror attacks in London as a basis for rejecting the claim made by various visions in his head that "This whole war on terror thing is.