My knowledge of her career and tenure as Texas Governor is limited, but from what I've heard, she was an impressive politician and person. She's also responsible for one of my favorite one liners about Bush (He was born with a silver foot in his mouth).Amanda...
In the credit-where-credit-is-due department, Ed Morrissey points out that discrimination against gays in the military, always bad, is particularly indefensible during times of recruiting shortfalls. This point, in particular, isn't.
Although the show (natch) declines any responsibility, a woman whose daughter was recently abducted committed suicide after being cross-examined on Nancy Grace's screamfest. Weigel reminds us of this excellent TNR.
Moron whose name escapes me on ESPN:The problem with the Tigers is that they strikeout too much. They need to start manufacturing runs. Look at tonight.Tonight they lost 11-3. That's a lot of runs to manufacture.Blathering nonsensically about manufacturing runs is the baseball equivalent of advocating...
BBC:Communist leaders across the world are not keen on retirement, and veteran Indian Marxist Jyoti Basu is being told by comrades not to break the tradition.On Wednesday the 93-year-old pleaded.
Self-appointed upholder of academic standards Harvey Mansfield, in a column arguing that universities should become depoliticized by adopting a whole bundle of reactionary bromides familiar to anyone who's seen The.
Interesting; the extant polling has seriously understated support for an incumbent against a primary opponent twice in the last month. I understand that polling for a primary is one of the most difficult tasks in the business (putting together a likely voter model is particularly onerous),...
Apropos of nothing, I've been giving some thought to Kill Bill. I agree with Scott that KB is Tarantino's weakest work, but this isn't saying very much; his first three.
Joel Mowbray.
Non-graphic format Wuzzadem: The best way to defeat Islamofascism is to admit that their underlying beliefs about sexuality and gender are completely correct, and to distribute lots of free copies of Dinesh D'Souza's new book. Via Roy, who as a bonus offers us his parody of...
This is old news, but probably not well known. For some reason, my adoptive state has decided to join the space race:Kentucky will become the nation's first state to send.
Huh. As a long term and vocal critic of Finnish foreign policy, I'm not sure how I feel about being Finland. I'm also unsure about how the scores were computed;.