Anne Applebaum:One 2004 poll found that more than half of the French, nearly half of the Germans, and a third of the British think the United States has overreacted to the terrorist threat.Or, to put it differently: Neither the events of Sept. 11 nor any...
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Coming hard upon the heels of Mickey Kaus' unsuccessful effort to figure out a way in which the Democrats were responsible for the Foley incident (keep working, Mickey; I'm sure.
LGM Baseball Challenge 2006 is over, and it appears that, in spite of a strong effort, Dave Noon lacked the will, resolve, and moral certitude necessary to defeat the Kentucky.
Lord Saletan triumphantly (re)discovers that pro-lifers may not be entirely consistent when it comes to protecting fetal life, and that there may be a "new" strategy that points out this contradiction. No kidding! Perhaps if he paid more attention to the reproductive rights movement rather...
Brad DeLong's son asks:First, neither wing of the original Federalist Party was "strict constructionist." The Hamilton-Adams wing was aggressively eager to expand the power of the federal government from the.
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Amanda reports on This Film Is Not Yet Rated (which I haven't yet seen):A couple of the directors, notably Kevin Smith and John Waters, draw a direct parallel between the censorship of gleeful female horniness and the way that misogynistic content just gets a pass,...
Could the Tigers win one goddamned game against the Royals? Yeesh. The first round is just going to be a massacre.
September 30.
As things are now just about done, it's appropriate to review the Reds 2006. At the beginning of the year I predicted that the Reds would win about 72 games, good for fifth place in the NL Central. As it turns out, they went 80-82,...
Starting tomorrow, I will begin blogging at TAPPED. Some content will be cross-posted at LGM, and much will be found only at LGM (curiously, Sam didn't include Battleship Blogging in.
VDH on Jimmy Carter:Carter’s Waterloo, of course was the Iranian hostage crisis. It was not just that his gutting of the military helped to explain the rescue disaster. Far more.