Roger has it.
Winner of the Bildungsroman Award for Best Coming of Age Matt Yglesias makes a simple but nonetheless not often enough made point here:The saddest thing about the 3,000th American death.
To follow up on Atrios and Ezra, let me carry the stats in this Times article one step further. Let's use their figures to extrapolate government health care spending per.
I really try to be optimistic about things early in the year, and then I see that the Calgary Herald today features eight bloody pages of horoscopes. Weren't there at least some sightings of the virgin Mary in refrigerator mold they could have thrown in for...
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Here's to 2007. I'm currently hiding in my room, neglecting my hosting duties at my own New Years party, of which I am a host. Here's a miserable way to.
The oppressive demands of fatherhood have guaranteed that this will be my most sedate New Year's Eve since 1984. Unlike 1987, I probably won't be arrested; unlike 1989, I won't squander the night reaching (unsuccessfully) beyond the threshold of my romantic caste; and unlike 1999, I...
Victor Davis Hanson assumes the Virgil Goode position on immigration:Remember that many of the 9/11 terrorist murderers had lived for long periods in the United States -- dressing, talking, and.
Last night Davida and I took in the Harlem Globetrotters-New York Nationals tilt down at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati. We didn't make it through the whole game, but.
A guest post by LivyQuestion: is any major event not fodder for the online right's complaints about the insufficient patriotism of progressives? They are, to be sure, by and large obsessive cultists in form and effect; but surely reason may kick in at points. One gets...
The Washington Naval Treaty ended competition between the big naval powers in capital ships by invoking a ten year "naval holiday" in which battleship construction would be sharply limited. The.
Each time public opinion data is released, disclosing that roughly a third of all Americans continue to believe George W. Bush is doing a fine job, I think to myself,.