Shorter Marshall Whittman: Security threats permanently require the President to lie and break the law, and anyone who disagrees is paranoid....indeed. The Bespectacled Scooter does not understand why Democratic centrists think it's a good idea to make Whittman, who makes Mickey Kaus look like Russ Feingold,...
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: If you pretend that "the federal income tax" comprises all taxation and examine payments in total dollars rather than percentages of income, then my claim about Bush.
Governor Fletcher indicted.For those that only watch the Kentucky Derby, Governor Ernie Fletcher seems like a stand up guy. It turns out, though, that Kentucky shares with its northern neighbor.
Interesting WSJ article about Luttig's resignation, which seems vaguely consistent with Julia's "he was more principled reactionary than Republican hack" (unlike, say, the conservatives on the Supreme Court) theory:Judge Luttig, according to a person familiar with the court proceedings, put his own credibility on the line,...
With respect to the NSA program Rob discusses below, it is almost certainly constitutional according to Supreme Court precedent (an atrocious decision--Stevens' decision to join will not be remembered as.
Glenn's reaction to the NSA domestic data trolling story:UPDATE: Of course, if we'd had a terror attack since 9/11 and didn't have a program like that, people would be complaining.Right..
Hey, maybe there's an upside to all this Da Vinci Code nonsense. If it drives James Dobson and his ilk batty, then who am I to complain?Of course, I still won't be seeing it.
Adam Kotsko asks:It's indisputable that the US has superior firepower and has for quite a long time -- in fact, although I'm willing to be corrected here, I seem to.
I'm tickled that the New York Times Book Review assessment of the five best novels of the last twenty-five years aligns so closely with my own preferences. Here's the top.
The right-wing of the blogosphere has become apoplectic about this post from All Things Conservative. The Corner, Powerline, Polipundit, Instapundit, and the inimitable Mickey Kaus have all seen fit to link. The cause for celebration is the latest Brookings Institution Iraq Index. To the naked eye,...
Michael Luttig, the arch-conservative 4CA judge whose exasperation with the Bush administration's transparent attempts to avoid judicial review may have cost him a Supreme Court nomination, has resigned. It's not.
My answer to MMF's question, alas, is that I think it's highly unlikely that the Dems will take back the House in 2006, even if the polls continue to be.