Via Ben, Rick Perlstein performs a valuable service by preempting the inevitable attempts this weekend to claim MLK on behalf of reactionaries who hated him then and still oppose his.
If you have the time, please be sure to check out David Neiwert's ongoing treatment of Eliminationism in America, which is about halfway through its projected ten parts. For most.
Marty Lederman argues (correctly) that the Constitution plainly gives Congress the formal powers to prevent the senseless escalation of the Iraq conflict. Matt brings up another question: would the courts.
I have finally finished my syllabi for Defense Statecraft and East Asian Security. This is the first time I've taught the latter, so it's a bit rough. I went with.
Above: Pajamas Media (#5)I urge you to read Eric Boehlert's meticulous decimation of the fake AP scandal, which does a particularly good job of nailing down the evasive goalpost-shifting now.
Shorter Ledeen: "The only way to show our will to win a war that -- believe it or not -- I actually opposed is for the President and Secretary of.
The 283 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America who did not vote for Bert Blyleven aren't evil, or even necessarily stupid. They simply know nothing of baseball. In.
Brad Plumer writes:If the United States government had a bigger Army at its disposal, it would view the military as the solution to an even greater number of foreign policy.
