Media Czech has finished his Atheist's Guide to the 2007 Kentucky Elections. I understand that he is preparing a similar document for the Presidential primary field...
The Times' Dave Leonhardt does a pretty decent job today of surveying Lou Dobbs' fact-free mental landscape (though it should be noted that nothing Leonhardt has to say couldn't have.
Hilzoy points to another in the endless series of empirical studies and professional testimonials indicating that torture is useless for the purpose of intelligence-driven interrogation. There's no value trade-off here;.
"You ask for a miracle, I give you...Armando Benitez." Between the beautiful day and the Perez/Lincecum matchup, I made am impulse decision to buy Mets tickets yesterday (even with the knowledge that Bonds wasn't going to start), and it ended up being a good decision. It...
Twain, 1904 or 1905:O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms.
This is kind of interesting; I open up Fox News and find a front page article on a threatening new Russian ICBM that's apparently capable of defeating any US missile.
I've been meaning to comment on the odious comments of MeMe Roth (see Lindsay and zuzu), but Professor B. beats me to it, cutting to the heart of the issue:This whole "I'm so concerned for her health!! And the health of all the impressionable girls who...
Having been persuaded by several recent arguments that mocking the earnest and well-meaning artists of the world only hurts America's youth, I can only imagine what a post like this.
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous:Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at.
Estonia has been under assault: When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.What followed was what some here describe...
There's been some good Falklands blogging around the interweb-tubes of late.Alex at Yorkshire Ranter has been doing some bang-up work:Myth 1: Command?Myth 2: Maggie?Myth 3: Imperialism?Myth 4: Friends in High.
I understand that it's politically difficult to institute the kinds of policies--most importantly energy taxes--that would be necessary to substantially reduce carbon emissions. But one good first step would be.