Poor Ed Morrissey. His attempt to gin up a scandal based on the insane, evidence-free ramblings of Curt Weldon is going down in flames. So now he's bringing his inimitable brand of tendentious hackwork back north, with similar results. His new attempt at a scandal...
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I went to my first baseball game on July 16, 1983. The San Francisco Giants, led by Darrell Evans, lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 9-3 at Candlestick Park. I.
The good news is that someone at NRO has overcome political objections in order to praise a movie. The bad news:So why exactly is crude Deuce irresistible? If you can.
I tend, as longtime readers know, to find broad claims about "gentrification" to encompass too many distinct concepts to be useful. I think Phoebe Maltz's term "blandification" could be potentially useful in distinguishing between serious problems (shortages of expensive housing, lack of reasonably-priced grocery stores,...
Lance has a good post on the Byrnes firing, and floats a few theories:We know that in most cases like this when somebody’s fired for what looks like no good.
Why does the Washington Post hate America?The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for.
It's obvious, but it nonetheless bears repeating:In constant dollars (i.e., adjusted for inflation), current gas prices do not yet approach the peak price attained around 1980. As I tell my students, a barrel of oil cost about $2.50 at the beginning of the 1970s and...
This post by Eugene Volokh, following up his approving citation of the odious James Taranto making silly claims about "[t]hose Westerners who side with the "Iraqi resistance" against America," digs.
I agree with Julia and Lindsay; the Rude Pundit's debut at the Fringe Festival easily lived up to expectations. Those who can't make the show can enjoy some Rude Pundit.
There is no God.
Whether you find OxBlog worthwhile or not, I guess, depends largely on whether you find David Adesnik's apparently sincere belief that the contemporary Republican Party is controlled by principled Burkeans.
Megan McArdle claims, based entirely on personal anecdotes: "[I]nstilling fear for a woman's physical safety--the definition of terrorism--did not seem to me to be one of [Operation Rescue's] goals." Whatever.