Matt Duss has a very nice discussion of the legal and political questions surrounding the Israeli security barrier, with links to additional material. I try to avoid almost all discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute in my classes and my writing; others know more and have far stronger...
With, I suspect, partial tongue in cheek, Tacitus writes: Picture, if you will, a public ceremony in April 2065 honoring Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth -- two men, patriots each in.
This is about as sensible a response to this as I can imagine.
As a foreign policy instructor at a major university, I am blessed by the occasional free book. Most of these are textbooks, which I quickly sell to the highest bidder. This morning, however, I discovered a little gem in my box by the name A Foreign Policy...
While I'm sure most of you don't need me to tell you this, last night's Daily Show interview with Wolf Blitzer was a real gem. Catch the reply today if.
Rather than wasting your money on Hitch, please send us booze. We're more entertaining while drunk, and we promise to blog while drinking whatever you send. I prefer Makers Mark. We.
Trapper John notes that Mike Ditka was one hell of a bad football coach. Hopefully the people of Chicago will remember this in November. I'm inclined to think that they will; Ditka will put a very quick end to the "celebrity slate" of the Republican Party. He's...
Check out the latest Zogby. Things looking very decent. The next four months are going to be murder. Can't get too optimistic, because I don't want to go through the next.
The Poor Man provides a handy advance summary of my forthcoming oral defense.
Did Bush and co. put pressure on intel analysts to come to the right kind of conclusions about Iraq and WMDs? The SCLM dutifully reports that the SSCI concludes that no, they didn't. (Example: here) Matthew Yglesias digs a little deeper. Now, here's my question: Are the...
William F. Buckley Jr. in the New York Times Magazine: NYT:It's not fair to blame the press. Some of your most inflammatory comments have been made in your essays and columns. In.
Here's Digby on the various plans of the administration to provide continuity-in-government in case of disaster, including the the potential postponement of elections. Here's Meteor Blades at Kos discussing the same thing. From Digby: If this.