A few baseball notes: As a commenter notes, Billy Beane has somehow won another division title, not only with a low payroll but with their ace starter limited to 34 innings, their putative star young shortstop injured most of the year and hitting like Angel Salazar...
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Remember, it's not a lie...if you believe it. I can't decide what's more incoherent; Goldberg in torture, or Reynolds on leaks. (Actually, in a way, Reynolds' position.
Wow, Marty Peretz really is a piece of work. First, you get the Peretz attempt to be witty ("It is true that for a few years in recent times I.
Yglesias on Peretz on France:French dovishness comes down to one war -- Iraq, part deux -- that France didn't want to fight, and that France was right not to want to fight.France's "rep" for weakness and appeasement comes, of course, from World War II. But in...
Bob Bergen of the CDFAI (Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute) is irritated:The left wing in Canada has been doing its level best to equate Canadian foreign and defence policyunder.
The interview isn't really playing to Stewart's strengths (he's invariably docile when faced with authority), but I'm fascinated that it's happening at all; the President of Pakistan (who took power.
I have been preparing to write a post-mortem for the Reds, but it seems that, somehow, they're only three games back pending the outcome of tonight's St. Louis-San Diego game. It would be unseemly to write the post-mortem, then see them win the Central. I will...
Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds linked to a story at Strategy Page that, if I may summarize, said that things are going great in Iraq and our troops are "mystified" that the.
Philip Vera Cruz.
Heh. Indeed.My favorite, I think, is this one. Yeah, those who claimed there would be a "quagmire" in which Iraq descended into civil war while huge numbers of troops remained in Iraq in 2006 with no end in sight sure look stupid now!
"Terrorism policy, terrorism schmolicy--who does his socks?"Michael Lewis' much-discussed book Moneyball has, I think, often been misunderstood. It's most often discussed as being about statistical analysis, or disdaining speed for.
Robert Kagan:I would worry about an American foreign policy driven only by fear of how our actions might inspire anger, radicalism and violence in others. As in the past, that.