Among Katha Pollitt's many enviable talents is the ability to cut to the heart of an issue by saying something that by all rights should be banal, but is often overlooked. Some people on the left have been arguing for a draft, arguing that it would...
Via Atrios, a link to the Heritage Foundation page on missile defense. As Atrios cogently points out, Talking Points and Recommendations have full, and Facts and Figures is empty. This is.
Via Crooked Timber I learn of a plagiarist suing a university for not explaining to him that plagiarism is wrong. His defense seems to be that since he wasn't caught early.
Via Digby, we find Rep. Tom Davis (R, VA) indulging in demographic fantasies: If you take out the Indian reservation, we would have won," said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), former chairman of the NRCC. Those damn traitorous Democrats! The audacity! They should be trying to win elections...
Kevin Drum with an excellent post on Oil. Upshot: Prices are going up. Fluctuations aside, they're not going back down. Depending on who you ask, production has peaked in the last.
Now that's a game. Why this country prefers the dreary postseason of the NBA is beyond me. I'm also grateful to Sports Illustrated for confidently declaring that a Tampa Bay victory.
Not entirely, but it looks like the Army presence there will be sharply reduced. Frankly, this is a bit overdue. There's no real compelling need to keep even skeletal forces in Germany. Although the article sounds a warning about the impact of this decision on NATO cohesiveness,...
Matt Duss noted some creepy White House rhetoric.
Chalk it up to incompetence; I was so very sad that we couldn't get tickets to the showing of Zhang Yimou's "Hero" at SIFF. Then I read the synopsis, discover.
What's the deal with the Tenet resignation? I don't know. Via Kevin Drum, Mark Kleinman has an interesting theory. I'd certainly like to believe that story, although it's probably too good to be true. In the past, I haven't cared too much about whether person X resigned,...
I should make clear that I don't consider those who gamble on political events to have any special insights, as dsquared at crooked timber has demonstrated. In general the numbers.
Everyone's all over poll numbers for the Presidential election, and everyone's watching the Senate pretty closely as well. (Speaking of which, there is a nice and very flattering profile of Barak Obama.