I posted this last month, but find it so powerful that I need to post it again. From Edmund Morgan: In the wake of the many scandals that have disgraced our government in the last four years, who is accountable? Will the secretary of defense be...
The 6th Circuit, as some feared, is letting the goons back in: In a day of see-sawing court rulings, a Federal appeals court ruled early Tuesday morning that the Republican Party.
Andrew Sullivan dredges up another worthy candidate for worst Kaus ever; his December 5, 2003 post-mortem of the Kerry campaign: Democratic Senator John Kerry, once proclaimed the frontrunner in the.
Is it just me, or does Tom Wolfe's new novel about college life seem like its pretension-to-achievement score will be surpass even the dreaded Ryan Adams ratio? Kakutani's hatchet job seems persuasive, but admittedly she hates a lot of books unreservedly, some of which are quite good....
The hydrogen bomb is fifty-three years old today. Let's hope that its next fifty-three years are as quiet as its last.
Very nice post and discussion thread at Crooked Timber regarding the Lancet 100000 deaths in Iraq estimate. Long story short, I may have been premature in critiquing the study. I suppose.
Via Brad Delong, Daniel Benjamin makes a good case that the failure to kill Zarqawi before the invasion is the single most indefensible decision made by this administration. This doesn't mean that it's the worst or the most destructive, but rather that there is no way of constructing...
Still, the staggering idiocy of the following commentary is awe-inspiring. First, Roger Simon: That's why I think energizing the base is so important. Any little unexpected thing -- we thought the.
Hands down, beyond dispute, this is the worst Kaus ever. Halloween really brings them out. . . Was bin Laden attempting state-by-state blackmail? Safire misses the key aspect of bin Laden's.
Here's something a few old friends of mine threw together. Enjoy.
And now for something completely different. . . I've undergone a bizarre intellectual journey over the past couple of years. Talk to me in 2001, and you would find a.
Max Sawicky offers a good timeline of the guest hacks at Instapundit trying to explain away Al QaQaa. It's a really remarkable sequence of intellectual dishonesty. Uncritically repeat assertions from.