Via Ezra, Jonah Goldberg asks why liberal bloggers aren't reviewing The Party of Death, the book we're assured is serious and non-partisan despite the fact that the elements of "death" happen to be carefully selected so as to entail no contradictions with the Republican platform. Well,...
In advance of my post about the 25-greatest-novels thing, Amanda has a terrific post about Aesthetic Stalinism (left and right.) I think there are two points that are worth keeping.
Ack. Looks like the end for Deadwood. Either that or they'll be killing off a bunch of characters this year.I've never held to the notion that Deadwood deserves to be.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
Shorter Marshall Whittman: Security threats permanently require the President to lie and break the law, and anyone who disagrees is paranoid....indeed. The Bespectacled Scooter does not understand why Democratic centrists.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: If you pretend that "the federal income tax" comprises all taxation and examine payments in total dollars rather than percentages of income, then my claim about Bush.
Governor Fletcher indicted.For those that only watch the Kentucky Derby, Governor Ernie Fletcher seems like a stand up guy. It turns out, though, that Kentucky shares with its northern neighbor an incorrigibly corrupt Republican Party. I am told that the business interests in Frankfort don't care...
Interesting WSJ article about Luttig's resignation, which seems vaguely consistent with Julia's "he was more principled reactionary than Republican hack" (unlike, say, the conservatives on the Supreme Court) theory:Judge Luttig,.
With respect to the NSA program Rob discusses below, it is almost certainly constitutional according to Supreme Court precedent (an atrocious decision--Stevens' decision to join will not be remembered as.
Glenn's reaction to the NSA domestic data trolling story:UPDATE: Of course, if we'd had a terror attack since 9/11 and didn't have a program like that, people would be complaining.Right. If people would complain about the absence of something in the wake of a terrorist attack,...
Hey, maybe there's an upside to all this Da Vinci Code nonsense. If it drives James Dobson and his ilk batty, then who am I to complain?Of course, I still.
Adam Kotsko asks:It's indisputable that the US has superior firepower and has for quite a long time -- in fact, although I'm willing to be corrected here, I seem to.