Why in the name of all that is holy did Slate hire Anne Applebaum to write a column called Foreigners: Opinions about events beyond our borders? Is she in some way that I'm not aware of qualified for such a column? Her previous entry at least...
I think there's a lot of truth to what Matt says here. All I would add is that in the House, where the Democrats have the best shot, the structural.
Bob Owens scrawls his latest post in poo.
You knew that Hitchens would have to respond to the Lancet study, didn't you? I'll refrain from excerpting, and rather summarize:1. The Lancet Study is wrong for some reason. I don't really understand statistics, but some other people do.2. Even if the study is right, the...
So saith Assrocket:In fact, as we have often noted, if you listened to any of the speeches President Bush gave on Iraq in 2003 or read the Congressional authorization on.
After further reflection on the uses and mis-uses of statistics, I have concluded -- along with Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the Milton Friedman Appreciation Society and Supper Club, and Instahack -- that.
It's still claiming lives...As it turns out, there were two casualties at last weekend's national re-enactment of the Battle of Perryville: Two horses died.The animals died during the Oct. 7 and 8 re-enactment of Kentucky's largest Civil War battle, said Gil Lawson, spokesman for the state...
Via TAPPED, the Lexington Herald-Leader appears to be returning a grant designed to support investigation of Senator Mitch McConnell after McConnell's office called the paper and accused the center giving.
Baltar is on the case.Going to be in Louisville, Saturday night.
Amanda Marcotte calls our attention to this excellent piece by Stacy Schiff, who debunks claims that Susan B. Anthony was a supporter of abortion bans. I find it particularly interesting because Anthony was able to ask questions about whether abortion bans actually accomplish anything even if...
Pithlord attempts to answer the unanswerable question of how people can believe that abortion is a serious criminal offense, but that the person most responsible for the act should be.
The presumption of male privilege is rarely declared so openly as when ignorant people begin yodeling about Title IX, which Congress passed in 1972 to counteract the self-evident gender disparities.