Moderates must insist, à la Galston and Kamarck, that Democrats won't win back the White House unless they convince voters to trust them on national security, which means making the war on terrorism not just the party's top priority but its central preoccupation in 2008. We're...
A couple of very smart people argue that--contrary to the argument I made last week--progressives should unequivocally reject Miers. I continue to disagree.The first argument comes from Mark Kleiman, who.
Like Roy, I think it's always nice when the Nobel Prize is granted to someone whose work I've actually read, although I'm less familiar with Pinter's work than with recent.
This can't possibly be good.Paradise Lost, John Milton's epic poem about Adam and Eve's temptation and fall, is to be turned into a feature film for the first time since its publication more than 330 years ago. Hollywood producers aim to keep the screen version faithful...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Tigger and Snowball, with Midnite in the foreground
As regular readers will know, I generally agree with Bob Somerby's point that it doesn't really make sense to assume that Bush places a high priority on overturning Roe v..
"Harriet Miers":LOL Nicolle said, "So Maureen Dowd is accusing you of being a superficial hack? Pot, Kettle, hello?"--get it, like a pot calling the kettle Black, their both black. Well at least Maureen Dowd is obv reading my blog.You have to admit, whatever you think of...
In my previous post, I highlighted some of the defensible aspects of conservative theories of executive power. Brad Plumer explains the really awful stuff in detail. (I'm not sure, however,.
From Shakes' Sis:What movie scenes always make you cry?Um. Okay.The final scene in Babe. I fall apart when James Cromwell says "That'll do, Pig."The scene in the Iron Giant when.
I think this post over at Balkanization is a good follow-up to Amanda and Jesse's ripostes to Glenn Reynolds:One way of thinking about judicial nominations is that, while the court has a famous tendency to follow the election returns, the court and judicial nominations are also...
I don't really have a rooting interest in the series--if anything I'm cheering for the White Sox--but I really hoped the Angels would get out of the 9th. What a.
You see, Boy George's house is robbed, and a sodomy-obsessed NRO writer reads his own projections into a headline, and...well, the joke writes itself. Unfortunately, the person in question wrote.