Erik starts off this week's discussion of From Colony to Superpower. Chapter XIII covers the years between 1942 and 1945, which involved a rather significant expansion of the global profile of the United States. Herring talks a bit about the debate that surrounded the decision to...
I have to agree that it's not accurate to say that John McCain is as bad as Herbert Hoover. He's much worse. And while the Obama administration is certainly infinitely.
Henry's on prozac these days -- not so much to curb his gargantuan appetite for mounting stuffed animals so much to deal with his irrepressible urge to piss on our.
Steve Benen wonders if Roger Ailes is picking the wrong analogy by comparing Fox News -- and Glenn Beck's program more specifically -- to the Alamo. Aside from all the general silliness of the comparison, Ailes and Beck nevertheless represent the exact variety of pathetic, martyr-driven...
I have a piece about the newly released memos over at Comment is Free. Meanwhile, it's pretty amusing to see a guy responsible for what might be the least plausible.
The outcome looks bad from a policy perspective, although legally it must said that the argument for striking down Prop 8 in the abscence of a federally enforceable right are.
These are not the variables you're looking for:Those who argue that violent justice cannot solve this problem ignore several thousand years of history that suggests otherwise. It is absolutely a fact that Somali piracy can be eliminated on land, but history also shows that the application...
Peter Schuck asserts that "The Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Wyeth v. Levine gives unprecedented power to juries in deciding issues far outside their expertise." This is a very strange.
I have created an ESPN Tournament Challenge group; winner receives an LGM related prize. Speaking of which, the owner of the Knows Pickers, victor of LGM Bowl Mania, has yet.
Heh. Perhaps Hu Jintao should consider forming an exploratory committee for the 2012 Republican primary...According to Gallup, Communist, melamine exporting, beating us in the Olympics China is now more popular than Congressional Republicans: USA Today/Gallup Poll. Feb. 20-22, 2009. N=1,013 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3."Do you...
This kind of reform of draconian drug laws is, admittedly, a second best option. lower maximum sentences along with the treatment option would be preferable. Just increasing judicial discretion doesn't.
In re: MoDo, what Chait and Yglesias and Benen said. In criticizing Dowd for focusing almost entirely on inane personal trivia larded with her bizarre gender obsessions, I might have.