Another excellent article about the Wilson case, with a useful comparison with other cases of consensual sexual relations with minors that received much lighter sentences:But wait. It gets worse. At the same time that Wilson was being sentenced to 10 years in prison, down the hall...
Apropos of the recent discussion of Marty Peretz' unsuitability for inclusion in polite society, I'm reminded of this little gem that Matt Duss caught before someone apparently decided to take.
George W. Bush, 27 April 2000:Let me just give you an example of what I did in Texas. And the only thing I know to do is go by my.
Indeed.As a teacher of military affairs and American foreign policy, I cannot emphasize enough how widely the "dirty hippies lost the war" narrative is held among college students, even those who hold otherwise leftish views. The Right really did a magnificent job, abetted by Hollywood, of...
Glenn "More Genocide, Less Trouble" Reynolds, 11/11/03: "The real problem with the Iraq war is that it's (1) waged by a Republican President; and (2) obviously in the United States'.
ESPN has a good article about the appalling case of Genarlow Wilson. One thing puzzles me about the dodging responsibility game described here:It's frustrating work. No one involved believes Wilson.
Sally Satel -- most recently seen emerging from the gauntlet of the American Enterprise Institute's rigorous peer-review system -- has contibuted a piece to this collection of essays by liberals who turned conservative, or something equally trite. Anyhow, Paul from Powerline really loved the book and...
Yglesias:I wonder if Jon Chait and others concerned about Wesley Clark's alleged anti-semitism feel it's a problem that one of America's leading political magazines is owned and operated by a.
Henry notes a potential solution to a serious problem at lifehacker:The Procrastinator's Clock is set ahead for a random amount of time from 0 to 15 minutes - which means.
Via Brett Mizelle, we read about the use of pigs in the training of medics serving in Iraq:In one course, an advanced trauma treatment program he had taken before deploying, he said, the instructors gave each corpsman an anesthetized pig."The idea is to work with live...
Standard of legitimacy #1: "Since its inception Roe has had a deep legitimacy problem, stemming from its weakness as a legal opinion."Standard of legitimacy #2: "Consider finally the prediction that.
Shorter Benny Morris:Iran will inevitably use its nuclear weapons to destroy Israel, even if it doesn't use its nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.I wish there was more to it than.