Radley Balko has a terrific article about no-knock warrants, which does a particularly good job of outlining the way that the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs has been used to eviscerate civil liberties. Particularly important is the that the potential for...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
Some new data:The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing federal prosecutors of ethnic bias in a sting last summer in which South Asian owners of convenience stores in Georgia were.
AG has an excellent review of Stephen Biddle's excellent book, Military Power. Read the review, and read the book if you get a chance.AG sums Biddle's argument up as follows:His argument is that it is not superior manpower, superior technology, superior firepower, or superior mobility that...
Shorter Jonah Goldberg #1: When you look at moderate liberal publications, you'll find that they don't want revolutionary change. Shorter Jonah Goldberg #2: You don't have to be a brilliant.
Duke's lacrosse coach has resigned, and the season officially cancelled. Some more information has been released about one of the scumbags in question:Earlier Wednesday, authorities unsealed documents stating that hours.
Before I had a chance to respond to Yglesias' repeating of highly flawed received wisdom about competitive balance and baseball, he finds some relevant data. To this, I will add that 1)as demonstrated in the Historical Abstract, baseball was more competitively balanced in the 90s than...
Matt helpfully points us to this: “As our generals have said, the war cannot be won militarily. It must be won politically.”Some generals may have said that, but it’s wrong..
For anyone in the Lexington Area,The first meeting of Drinking Liberally-Lexington will be held at 6:30pm, Tuesday, April 11 at the Horse and Barrel (101 North Broadway). I expect that.
I have to agree with several of Matt's commenters that Hank Aaron's 755 home runs probably is the most "hallowed" record in American sports, given that hallowed is a rather inexact term. It's not the most unbreakable, which I'm inclined to think goes to Charlie Radbourn's...
DHS pedophilia edition.
Congrats to Maryland for winning one hell of a championship game.