This is the sixth of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs4. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman5. The Persian Puzzle, Kenneth Pollack6. George Packer, The Assassin's GateAssassin's Gate...
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Admittedly, I can't oppose to making fun of Slappy Rodriguez for hitting into yet another inning-ending double play with Beckett in the ropes. It should not be forgotten, however, that.
It must be said that Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey is--as has been widely noted--a real find, the most hilariously oblivious libertarian crank to emerge in quite some time. (Amber Pawlik,.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
Roxanne directs us to this excellent story in the L.A. Times about reporter Gary Webb. Webb , who committed suicide in 2004, wrote a series of stories about the CIA's.
Ah, nothing better than a consequential August doubleheader. Well--something could be better; the Red Sox could be starting a major league pitcher instead of Jason Johnson. I actually had a.
Longtime readers will know that I have my own disagreements with the solipsistic assumption of some members of the legal academy that the quality of the legal craftsmanship of judicial opinions is more important than outcomes, and I think the evidence is unambiguous that public...
Damn.That's Abraham Lincoln, Kitty Hawk, Ronald Reagan, 3 Ticonderogas, and what looks like 8 Arleigh Burkes, constituting nearly a quarter of the combat capacity of the USN. It's the first.
You're a game and a half behind the division leader in August. This is the last direct meeting you'll have with the aforementioned leader. It's a tie game. You have.
...makes another appearance in the august pages of the Wall Street Journal. Most of the truly bad arguments made by the forced pregnancy lobby result from an understandable unwillingness to apply one's purported principles with even a modicum of consistency. The "but would you have...
Via Alex, I see that XFL media has yet another new format. Ever the masochist, I clicked through to the site. In addition to a lot of other highly uninteresting.
U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, to her immense credit, has ruled the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional. Judges can't always be relied on to stop lawless executive.