In this thread, our friend Pithlord continues his valiant (if, in my view, misguided) defense of a modest version of the centrist pro-choice position. I've discussed before my general belief that parental and spousal notification laws are excerable public policy, although I think the former (though...
I say just plain odd.If you don't read Registan.net, you should... despite the fact that Nathan joined 'incompetent media.'
My colleague Dan Byman explains why Zarqawi's death probably won't make things better, and may even make them worse (via Robin Varghese of 3 Quarks Daily):Still, the history of killing.
Yet another example. I'm sure that the intensive campaign to de-link NRO will start immediately! (Or, at least, as soon as they've started one for Jeff Goldstein.) Admittedly, there is a certain poetic justice in the fact that Armando actually thought that Trevino was serious and...
An interesting post to pull out of Buridan's Ass on the definition of oppression. Buridan argues that being an oppressed group requires (a) being a group and (b) being oppressed.
Last year, I discussed the risibly spurious civil rights arguments Target was using as a pretext to not fire pharmacists who wanted to interpose their atavistic sexual morality between women.
Within the span of five months in 2004-2005 remakes of two "classic" science-fiction series entered their regular seasons. The first regular episode of the "re-envisioned" Battlestar Galactica aired in October of 2004. The first episode of the new Doctor Who series aired in Britain in March...
The recent story about how not having access to Plan B is likely to lead to more abortions reminds me about this telling statistic, which appeared in the last Harper's.
Most of the evidence suggests grounds for cautious optimism about the prospects for some sort of deal with Iran. Already, some (admittedly obscure) right-wing bloggers are crying foul over the.
In his writings on society and education in first decades of the 20th century, Hans Reichenbach argued that structural change would most likely have to be led by the emerging German middle class. The upper class had too much invested in the status quo and the...
Linda Hirshman, guest-blogging at TAPPED, has an interesting follow-up post about the debunked Newsweek scare story on marriage. One downside of the fact that most of the women got married.
Matt's argument here can be engaged with on a couple levels. Certainly, there's no question--even granting that it generally takes at least 2 viewings to sort these things out--that this.