Let's deal with some obvious truths:Yes, a playoff is better than the BCS.Yes, the NCAA and the university presidents are lying when they say that a playoff in Division I-A is impossible.Yes, except for those extremely rare cases in which there are two, and only two,...
There are problems with claims that abortion takes time away from issues like women's equality in the workplace, domestic violence, etc.--these things aren't a zero-sum game. But I think there's.
Ah, what to do with The New Republic? On one hand, they giveth biweekly Rick Perlstein. But, boy, does that other hand do an increasing amount of takething. Publishing Bob.
USS Oklahoma and her sister, USS Nevada, were the first of the "standard type" US battleships. The intention behind the standard type design was to create a squadron of battleships that could operate together without embarassing differences in speed or capability, while still being able to...
Admittedly, there are few manifestations of idiot hackery that haven't appeared in the post-9/11 writings of Roger L. "I used to consider myself a Democrat, but thanks to 9/11, I’m.
Ah, it's a pleasure to see Greenwald go after the most naive, shallow, trite, facile (somebody fetch me a thesaurus, please) writer in America. It's not so much that Friedman.
"The five justices in the Bush v. Gore majority are thus the only judges involved in this election dispute who fall uniquely within the category that is most indicative of partisan justice: they made a decision that was consistent with their political preferences but inconsistent with...
Rick Perlstein's new piece in TNR ought to make my favorite Southern Nationalist hopping mad. Perlstein writes about a number of issues related to the possible geographic redistribution of political.
Fascinating. I'll probably tune in for an episode or two--out of morbid curiosity as to how they pull this off. If I had to watch the Sopranos in such a.
It's generated very little discussion in light of the global warming case, but in some respects a more important case that came before the Supreme Court this week is Ledbetter v. Goodyear. I'll have a longer piece about the case and the larger issues next week,...
Apparently RU-486 prevents the formation of breast tumors in mice. I'm sure all of the members of the forced pregnancy lobby who support criminalization out of a alleged desire to.
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