Big Book Author Matt really gets this one right:It's extremely rare for the Bush administration to pick big fights with congress. When the House and Senate were preparing to send him a campaign finance reform bill he regarded as unconstitutional, he tried to get his allies...
Glenn Reynolds has, of course, joined the ranks of glibertarians charging Jessica Valenti with being photographed while having breasts. He links to this post by Dr. Helen, who calls the.
Shorter Ann Althouse: "Having your picture taken next to the President while wearing a T-shirt knit top that makes the fact that one has breasts too evident (thanks to Lindsay.
Desperation.Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the city to reduce some of the violence plaguing the capital, the Interior Ministry said Friday.[...]''Trenches will be dug around Baghdad in the coming weeks when the third part...
The Editors discuss a typically exceptional piece by Dahlia Lithwick, which points to the danger of overly-specific definitions of torture. In his particularly testy press conference today, [more here] President.
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Shorter Verbatim Crazy Randian: "Shooting at a Montreal college campus. The cafeteria where the shooting took place is known as "Jew cafe". I am sure there will be a media black out on the jew hate aspect of the shooting...UPDATE: It was not antisemitism."I lived about...
Since the world needs more smart people who think about state and society theory, Matt's post about violence against women in Guatemala reminds me that Angelina Godoy has written a.
My knowledge of her career and tenure as Texas Governor is limited, but from what I've heard, she was an impressive politician and person. She's also responsible for one of.
In the credit-where-credit-is-due department, Ed Morrissey points out that discrimination against gays in the military, always bad, is particularly indefensible during times of recruiting shortfalls. This point, in particular, isn't made often enough:In fact, gays serve openly in the military now; they do it in Britain....
Although the show (natch) declines any responsibility, a woman whose daughter was recently abducted committed suicide after being cross-examined on Nancy Grace's screamfest. Weigel reminds us of this excellent TNR.
Moron whose name escapes me on ESPN:The problem with the Tigers is that they strikeout too much. They need to start manufacturing runs. Look at tonight.Tonight they lost 11-3. That's.