Against my best judgment, saw Live Free or Die Hard last week. It's.... action packed.I'm a big fan of the first and third films in the Die Hard series, especially the first. Willis' McClane is an accidental action hero, which is a bit different than the...
Movies by the two worst directors regularly given major American studio projects who aren't Joel Schumacher have recently opened. And yet, I think I would sit through either of their.
A lot of ink (or e-ink) has been spilled today about Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence. Scott touched on Bush's consistency when it comes to pardons -- loyalty is.
To nearly everyone's unreckoned misfortune, I was born 37 years ago today. My parents -- who probably expected that I would make them rich one day by earning a living as a professional athlete or by inventing some kind of delicious cheese-based product -- were no...
Romney ahead in New Hampshire. This reinforces my belief that the GOP race is basically between Romney and Thompson, and I'm not ready to hand things over to the latter.
On the issue of affirmative action and the alleged principled "originalism" of the Court's conservatives, Simon Lazurus has a very good summary:On the contrary, as legal and historical scholars --.
Thers makes a comparison.As I've mentioned before, I actually think that the narrow issue of not granting a pardon to Karla Faye Tucker (as opposed to his conduct afterward and his general attitude towards the death penalty) constitutes one of the few times that Bush has...
I'm pretty much in agreement with Matt on the Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan:As William S. Lind observed on June 11, the rise in strikes is indicative of the.
Via Noah at Danger Room comes this: "The poobahs are worried that 'the new emphasis on... counterinsurgency may be undermining conventional [big war] capabilities.'""The major concern is, while we're doing.
First, I come home to find that Jim Capozzola has passed away (R.I.P.). Then I see that Bush has commuted Scooter Libby's sentence. (Although, at least for some cross-ideological comity I can agree entirely with Patterico.) Yikes....see also Marcy....Julia has a tribute to Jim....make sure to...
Peter has an excellent post on analogies of war, and how useful/not useful they may be in constructing policy. I would only add that analogies are more than simply a.
All,As tempting as it may be to feed Fred, please don't; we're currently exploring ways to get rid of him. Until we do, please just let him rant.The Management