Although he's blocked any access to the post Matt references here (and that earned him a special judges' prize), Kieran Healy had the relevant excerpts:De facto [France is] allied with Saddam even if there’s no publicly-declared treaty or agreement; so will they be willing to...
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Gay-bashing with some regional ressentiment; the only tactic that state GOPs have left. Pat Boone was a nice touch, though, especially when you're trying to convince people that it would.
A worthy compilation of nominees. I would have to vote for Althouse, but really, they're all winners! (On the other hand, the standards of podcast wingnuttery established by her claim.
Publishing stuff like this, as well as stuff like Jamie Kirchick's arguments with the strawmen in his head, seems relevant to questions about how much nepotism was involved in hiring the new editor. If Commentary was meant to be a serious, highbrow intellectual journal, then...
I forgot to blog about this on Thursday, but this has to rank as one of the most remarkable recent paragraphs written on the increasingly embarrassing NYT op-ed page: Lately,.
Via Jeffrey Lewis, John Bolton seems to care very much about the North Korea deal:Other top Bush administration officials, such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have criticized Bush since.
Shorter Caitlin Flanagan: The fact that Hillary Clinton gave her cat to another person who would care for it makes her evil. Said cat also had a massive impact on American politics.No, I'm serious. See also Thers; alas, I doubt we've heard the last of...
Says Huckabee: most" of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were "clergymen." This is true to the extent that 1 out of 56 = "most."Of course, what matters even.
You may have heard about this embrace of utter crackpottery from new social conservative darling Mike Huckabee:Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said.
Via Sam Boyd, I bring you this Kirchick Komedy Klassic:Earlier this week, I speculated in a bloggingheads with Jon Keller, political reporter for the Boston CBS affiliate and author of The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster (which I...
Even for Bruce Tinsley, this is incomprehensible. Does he really think that benching Hope Solo was some form of racism? Beats me. I think we need the Comics Curmudgeon to.
Yglesias identifies a key strategy for opposing progressive change without openly opposing the underlying goals:One has to keep in mind the broader picture here, too. The right's main tactic whenever.