Redbeard's got himself a damn fine post this morning: Have you not heard of that comedian who spliced together news footage and cried "Whither is truth?" As many media figures shared his timeslot, he provoked much laughter. Was it spun? asked one. Was it drowned in...
For those who have never read it, the Toledo Blade series on "Tiger Force" describes the activities of a U.S. Army unit in Vietnam in 1967. The unit perpetrated several.
At least of the major political parties in the United Kingdom. Apparently, 10 Downing is quietly cheering for a Kerry victory. Much of the rest of the party is not-so-quietly cheering:.
Irrational Robot points out that the Republican platform is calling for four constitutional amendments. These include a) an amendment in support of "human life" which presumably would ban abortion, b) an amendment to protect marriage from those pushing "the homosexual lifestyle", c) an amendment to give...
Alan Krueger and David Laitin have an article in the latest Foreign Affairs discussing the State Department's infamous terrorism report for 2003. As you may recall, the report was unveiled.
Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on.
LGM Readers, The site will be undergoing some minor visual changes over the next couple of days. If these give you browser problems, hurt your eyes, or in any other way interfere with your reading pleasure, please let us know. The Staff UPDATE: The red proved...
If there is one thing I've gotten sick of in the last four years, it's having to pick my jaw up off the floor every so often, after it fall.
The boys on the right have to stop every other day and gush about Arthur Chrenkoff. Chrenkoff, you see, tells the good news about Iraq. Moreover, he tells it in.
Still glad that Andy's back: Paris never wanted to be involved, but the notion that even a chief appeaser of Islamist terror can escape its fury is getting less and less persuasive. French journalists have been kidnapped in Iraq in protest of France's admirable secularism in...
Andy's back, and he's pissed. The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans. This is an almost seventeenth century piece of public sectarianism and anti-Catholic bigotry. But.
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He.