Since the horrors of Abu Ghraib were made public, we've witnessed numerous bizarre rhetorical coping strategies. The "a few bad apples" defense defies common sense as well as emerging evidence, but it persists none the less. Along side this defense, we also see an "everyone does...
If I needed another reason to vote for Kerry over Bush, this would be it. Moreover, even the folks out there in the red states who find Guinness a "snooty" beer.
The always good Matt Duss (you know, someone should write him a letter of recommendation for grad school) has written an excellent post that captures, in microcosm, the idiocy of "flip-flop".
Lately, Orcinus has been doing a damn fine job of tearing apart Michelle Malkin. If you don't know who Malkin is, she's part of the wave of attractive female conservatives that the RNC started supporting in the 1990s in order to give the party a new look. If the...
Gadflyer has a nice piece, via Pandagon, detailing the increasing strength of conservative groups on campus. But beyond anger, the defining characteristic of cultural populists is that they view themselves as.
I've mentioned before that Tacitus.org is a pretty pointless blog when Tac himself isn't posting. Harley, the liberal, is decent but hardly anything special. The rest don't do anything but.
Like the Iraq war but more so, the candidacy of Alan Keyes is a nice way to separate garden-variety hacks from the true virtuosos. Somewhat disappointingly, many reactionary pundits and bloggers recognize Alan Keyes's candidacy for the colossal embarrassment that it is. Where can one turn?...
Dahlia Lithwick--yet another guest columnist who would be a vast improvement over a majority of the current crew on the Times op-ed page--has a good column about "judicial activism." She summarizes.
I see that Wan Juilliams is at it again, this time on that thatliberalNPR, pitching the same abject nonsense about the allegedly effective strategy George Bush is cooking up to appeal to.
Chavez forces claim victory, 58-42. It looks as if the OAS numbers agree. The opposition disagrees. Instapundit seems to prefer the opposition account. Two possibilities on the stance of the opposition. First, they may be generally surprised, because their own numbers actually showed victory. It's hard to know,...
I've been looking around for any indication about the Chavez referendum, no news that I can find from any reputable source. I'm inclined to think he's going to win, largely.
I've been letting myself get a bit too optimistic about November, so it's time to discuss some possible reasons for pessimism. First, via Daniel Geffen, I direct your attention to this post.