I'm trying as hard as I can to maintain my contrarian stance about Harriet Miers. (And, ultimately, I still maintain it; I still haven't heard a persuasive argument, in specific and tangible terms, explaining why whatever damage it is that Miers would do could possibly outweigh...
Redbeard has some strong opinions about standardized testing and NCLB.
Ah, looks like phony First Amendment martyr Judy Miller is finally being abandoned by the Times, although this would have meant considerably more had the Times figured this out a.
I've seen a fair amount of this lately:The crucial difference between fans of the Red Sox and Cubs and those of the White Sox and Astros is that the latter had the decency to keep their suffering to themselves.The White Sox have gone longer than the...
Media Girl notes that Target is defending its pharmacists when they refuse to fulfill prescriptions for contraception. Great. (It is nice that Kass informed us that female contraception is particularly.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Frankie
World O' Crap uncovers a real gem from University of Chicago "pro-life" ethicist Leon Kass, lecturing the kiddies in Focus on the Family's children's magazine, The Good Old Days When Women Were Bound. Oddly, we have yet another nationally prominent pro-lifer, endorsed by a major pro-life...
The editor of The Economist is currently on NPR. Responding to a question from a listener about Alan Greenspan's role in the Bush deficits, he deflected it by saying that.
While wandering Duck of Minerva, I happened to click on this, a book called The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Amazon summary reads:Was.
Roger Ailes responds to the hapless Lord Weisberg:Actually, there's plenty of evidence that Rove and Libby knew exactly what they were doing -- why else would they go to such lengths to conceal the fact that they were the sources of such information? If they thought...
I don't mean to be stubborn, but I do have one caveat to add to the important information that Harriet Miers endorsed the Coathanger Human Life Amendment. Some people have.
This is a really good piece, and I think the punchline is particularly important: That the nukes we went in to eliminate did not, in fact, exist is scandal of.